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Happy Rakhi – what is a race?
X.T.M notes that the comment thread has turned to race and genetics, and says he may expand on how class, colour, creed, caste, genetics and community overlap.
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Open Thread: Nepal Floods + 20 months since Assad
Open Thread, 27 August 2026. X.T.M opens by suggesting that Middle Eastern hybrid regimes balance the great powers nimbly, while democracies such as Israel and India pursue grander foreign policies,…
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“Tamil” CMs
X.T.M, drawing on a News18 blog, notes that many Madras chief ministers were of Telugu descent, from Subbarayalu Reddiar onwards, and sees Tamil Nadu’s “distinct” identity as compatible with a…
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Why Can’t South Asia Move On?
Why does South Asia litigate 2,000-year-old events as though they happened yesterday? Because almost nothing is lost between generations. The cure is neither the past nor the future. It is…
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3 Graphs of Karnataka
X.T.M observes from three graphs of Karnataka that many South Indian Muslims seem to be “Urdufying”, and wonders whether East Bengal might have followed a linguistic path to Urdu and…
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Thoughts That Shape Power
In a guest essay shared by Omar Ali, Varun argues that universities and think tanks train a country’s elite, and that lax standards and borrowed Western and Soviet theories, plus…
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South India funds India?
X.T.M comments on a chart suggesting the southern states and the old Punjab subsidise the rest of India, links the south’s position to Partition’s contest over rich regions, and compares…
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my 7,000th comment on Brown Pundits
X.T.M marks his 7,000th comment on the blog, notes he is 65 posts from his 1,000th, and says Omar’s take on whether the Mughals were colonisers follows.
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Did the British Divide India?
Omar Ali argues that Pakistan was ultimately the Muslim League’s creation, but that some British rulers promoted it for their own ends: divide and rule, the Congress stance in 1939,…
