Delhi
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Best of Bharat
X.T.M ends a Delhi trip at a Para athletes event and the Lotus Temple, and reads the visit as showing what a soft but strong Indian superpower looks like.
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When in Bharat
A one-line note from Delhi: the writer did not know what jamun was and has now eaten it twice in a single morning.
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India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire (and the various Sultanates)
The post argues the Republic of India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire: it holds about 70 per cent of the empire’s land, and its capitals, ruling core…
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A Republic Cannot Deport, Humiliate or “Outbreed” Its Own People
X.T.M argues that the reported deportation of an Indian family to Bangladesh without due process shows a state confusing language with nationality and religion with foreignness, and that citizenship is…
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Sunny Narang in Conversation with Dr. Omar Ali.
A BrownCast in which Sunny Narang, a Punjabi raised in Delhi with ancestral roots in Pakistan, talks to Dr Ali about post-partition Punjabis in Delhi and those who shaped the…
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Pivoting to the future
Quoting a report on Delhi reopening after its deadly Covid wave, the author asks how Modi will supercharge India’s economy, saying as an American that a strong India is good…
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Paatal Lok – Review
Nachiketa reviews the crime thriller Paatal Lok after reading a Swarajya piece accusing it of left-liberal propaganda, praising its engaging storytelling on communalism, casteism and patriarchy and weighing the Hinduphobia…
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The Delhi riots
Open thread for comments on the February 2020 Delhi riots, with the poster saying he does not know what is happening there.
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Abolishing elite-selves
The author welcomes the Right to Education provision reserving 25% of elite school seats for slum children, crediting NGOs for implementation and drawing on Walter Crocker’s remark that Nehru and…
