India
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Bharat Needs No Validation
X.T.M takes a commenter’s remark that the Ramayana did not resonate as a cue to argue that Bharat is civilisational, that Pakistan is an ‘Urdufied Punjab’ still colonised in mind,…
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Hans Zimmer and the Polite Dismissal of the Ramayana
X.T.M argues that Hans Zimmer’s polite refusal to hear the Ramayana explained was a dismissal, not reverence, and that Indian awe at it shows civilisational confusion; he adds a reflection…
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Visibility, Voice, and the Indian Muslim Dilemma
X.T.M reads the prominence of Muslim families in BBC coverage of the Ahmedabad plane crash as showing three things: selective visibility, Indian Muslim emigration, and a surprising willingness to speak…
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Was Partition Good for Muslims?
X.T.M argues that Partition, sold as deliverance, was a sophisticated act of self-disinheritance for South Asian Muslims, leaving them divided across three states, without electoral leverage, with a psychological cleft,…
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The Gratitude Trap: On Escaping Asia but Staying Captive
X.T.M uses a returnee’s complaints about India to argue that migrants fall into a ‘gratitude trap’, mistaking Western clean streets and order for civilisational gifts, and that postcolonial recovery needs…
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Why Pakistan Is a Colonial Project & India a Civilizational One
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is a colonial continuation built by divide and rule, that India is a civilisational project, that the term ‘South Asia’ reflects a London-drawn map, and that…
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Borders, Blind Spots, and the Mirror Game of South Asia
X.T.M sets out rival Pakistani and Indian arguments over Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir in 1947 and Balochistan later, concluding both sides are mirrors, demanding flexibility for themselves and finality for…
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If You Have a Side, You Don’t Care for the Other Side
X.T.M argues that partisanship is not empathy: those who already have a side do not truly care for the other, as Pakistanis and Indians alike use the other’s minorities as…
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Let Hindus Decide for India
X.T.M argues that a coalition of Islamists, liberal elites and foreign commentators resists Hindu political consolidation, that Hinduism and India are coterminous, and that those who opted out of Hindustan…
