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ZA Bhutto Founds the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore
Omar Ali reposts Hasan Mujtaba’s Facebook account of how Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People’s Party in Lahore, including the origin of its slogan and Bhutto’s later falling-out with…
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Notes From the Backend
X.T.M reports from the site’s backend: a theme problem hiding post metadata, categories rebuilt around author, popularity and podcast, tags standardised as search infrastructure, and a view of slow periods…
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Macaulay, Macaulayputras, and their discontents
Omar Ali pastes an X exchange on Thomas Macaulay with Sadanand Dhume and other users. He argues that schooling in Indian languages would have served India better than English-medium education,…
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Open Thread: From Floods to LaBal
Open thread opening with Sri Lanka’s severe flooding, then Pakistan’s minority rights bill, Sam Dalrymple on Lahore and Delhi, Ella Wadia’s debut at LaBal, AOC on an AI bubble, a…
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Spiritual mothers of South Asia
The author traces the maternal figures in the national songs and anthems of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka back to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s 1882 novel Anandamath, arguing that Bharat Mata,…
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The Hindification of Muslim Culture
X.T.M argues that India is seeing a slow Hindification of Muslim cultural inheritances, from khayal and Bollywood to cuisine, as Muslim political power recedes. He calls it succession rather than…
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Imran Khan – open thread
Open thread opening with X.T.M’s reaction to a rumour that the Pakistani military killed Imran Khan in jail, which he says would make Khan a martyr greater than Zulfikar Ali…
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BRAHM went viral
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRVLqaFESpt/
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Browncast: Bangladesh Planned Elections Discussion
In this BrownCast episode Omar Ali and Maneesh Taneja talk with Bangladeshi academics Shaifq ur Rahman and Jyoti Rahman about the country’s current political churn and its planned elections. The…
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On “The Haraam Bit”: Free Speech, Trolling, and Our Red Lines
X.T.M explains why he overwrote a post that mocked Pakistani-origin women performers, calling it communal trolling rather than analysis. He sets out BP’s editorial standards: controversial is fine, targeted mockery…
