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Why India’s National Calendar Needs Urgent Correction
X.T.M argues that India’s national holiday calendar is distorted, with five Abrahamic festivals central and most Dharmic ones optional. He proposes swapping them for five indigenous festivals, and contends that…
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Why 2014 happened in 2014
Nachiketa asks why Hindutva took until 2014 to assert itself, suggesting Gandhi’s murder by a Hindutva follower and the slow socialist-era economy as the two reasons, and invites comments.
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Why Zia, Munir, Ayub, and Even Modi, Are Jinnah’s Children
X.T.M argues that Zia-ul-Haq, Asim Munir, Ayub Khan and Narendra Modi are Jinnah’s true heirs, because Jinnah’s communal mobilisation built a state of permanent insecurity, military guardianship and Islamic legitimacy.…
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Nehru, Privilege, and the Missed Settlement of 1947
X.T.M argues that Nehru’s privileged background left him the least prepared of the principal leaders to negotiate the settlement of 1947, contrasting him with Gandhi, Jinnah, Bose and Ambedkar, who…
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The Unfinished Contract II: Citizenship, Partition, and the Questions Liberalism Won’t Ask
X.T.M argues that Partition left India with an unresolved social contract: citizenship for Muslims who stayed was declared, never constituted, and secularism became a way to avoid the question. He…
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The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947
X.T.M argues that India’s central trauma is Partition rather than diversity, framing it as a failure of two elites to share power. He says most Muslims stayed after the League’s…
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Note on Moderation
Nachiketa, noting Omar Ali’s withdrawal from running BP, says he will write more and moderate comments lightly, with firmer standards for authors. He favours liberal free-speech tolerance and leaves final…
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Pāṇini, the “Glitch,” and a Note From an Old Cambridge Friend
X.T.M introduces Rishi Rajpopat’s new book Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule, which argues that the supposed rule-conflict flaw in Pāṇini’s grammar never existed because the system already resolves it. He is arranging…
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Blog Management (or lack of it, on my part)
Omar Ali steps back from managing the blog after recent clashes between authors and commentators, saying Razib Khan and his designees will run it while he stays on as an…
