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Sri Kumari my Late Partner
Sbarrkum shares a video of an Adivasi dance and remembers his late partner, whose parents were killed by the LTTE.
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BP may have just jumped the shark
X.T.M mocks a claim that a Brahmin calling someone sub-human is casteist, arguing that an insult is an insult and that caste-specific moral disclaimers amount to moral policing.
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Mid-Nov Circular
X.T.M’s mid-November circular says BP will not run a hyper-moderated blog: authors control their own threads, there will be no bans, and everyone should calm down and carry on.
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Calm Down and Carry on.
Omar Ali asks for calm after harsh comments and posts, and urges inactive authors to write more.
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What Is Not India Is Pakistan
Taking one commenter’s line, ‘What is not India is Pakistan’, as a sharp description of how the Pakistani state has built its identity.
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Open Thread – PakMil manipulates the ‘constitution’ yet again.
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose PakMil pushes through the 27th amendment, giving ‘constitutional cover to its control of all branches of the Pakistani government including judiciary
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Multi Racial Multi Cultural Family in Ceylon
Sbarrkum recounts his mother’s multiracial family in Galle, mixing Sinhalese, Irish, Jaffna Tamil and Barbadian ancestry, and argues that children of mixed marriages belong to no single community and so…
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Why we must talk about caste
X.T.M argues that a caste jibe set off a reader boycott on BP, and that controversial voices are what keep the comment threads alive. He concludes caste is the deep…
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Love Jihad Zohran
X.T.M jokes that Zohran Mamdani is a product of ‘Love Jihad’, citing an Indian Eye interview where Mamdani described growing up in an interfaith family.
