India
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Browncast: Trump, Tariffs, Hurt Feelings, and India..
Omar Ali talks with Kushal Mehra, host of the Carvaka podcast, and regular contributor Amey Chaugle about the public war of words between the USA and India, partly over Indian…
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Open Thread- Rahul Gandhi detained?
Open thread asking about reports that Rahul Gandhi was detained, with a remark that Brown Pundits may be the oldest and most active Indo-Pak weblog.
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Ghalib for Gen Z
A young reader’s review of “Thinking with Ghalib” by Anjum Altaf and Amit Basole, praising its transcreations and its epistemological reading of Ghalib’s poetry as a way into a poet…
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Why Indian English Loves Long Sentences
X.T.M argues that Indian English favours long, ornate sentences as an echo of Persian’s former prestige role, and that it borrows surface complexity without the deep roots of Persian, Arabic…
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Madhuri is stronger than the Ambanis
X.T.M reads the Ambanis’ removal of the elephant Madhuri to Vantara as a clash between animal welfare and sacred tradition in Hindu veneration of nature, and contrasts a plural, absorbing…
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🧵 Open Thread: Hate Speech, Travel Notes, and Diplomatic Surprises
Open thread. X.T.M says a comment glorifying Partition violence crossed the line and that the commenter must retract and apologise before posting again, and notes his travels and Pakistan’s diplomacy…
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🎶 Bravo, Kabir | Artists Across Borders
X.T.M celebrates a virtual Indian–Pakistani artists’ dialogue, including the singer Kabir Altaf, as shared heritage doing what diplomacy cannot, and lists the event’s moderator and speakers.
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India, Pakistan & the Central Asian Dancefloor
X.T.M contrasts India joining the CAFA Nations Cup, a sign of its growing standing in Central Asia, with its withdrawal from a World Championship of Legends match against Pakistan after…
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What kind of nationalism is it to live in India and have an Arabic name?
X.T.M posts an extract from Kanhaiyalal Kapoor’s satirical story in Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology of non-Muslim Urdu writers, in which a narrator renames and re-dresses himself to prove his Indianness, and…
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Brown Pundits: Broad Church or Narrow Canon?
X.T.M answers Kabir’s charge of ‘soft Hindutva’ bias at Brown Pundits, arguing the forum’s bias is civilisational engagement rather than Hindutva, that Hindu introspection drives much of its energy, and…
