India
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Did the Muslim League and RSS Want the Same Thing?
X.T.M asks whether the Muslim League’s demand for a Muslim-majority Pakistan differs in kind from the RSS wanting a Hindu-majority India, arguing both rejected a shared national project and that…
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The Mughals Were Not an Indian Dynasty — They Were a Dynasty in India
X.T.M argues, drawing on Richard Eaton, that the Mughals were a dynasty in India rather than an Indian dynasty, anchored in Persianate high culture and Turko-Mongol kingship, and contrasts them…
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Zohran Mamdani and the Question of Civilizational Belonging
X.T.M answers Kabir’s comment on Zohran Mamdani, arguing that speaking Hindi-Urdu and quoting Bollywood are surface markers, that Indian identity is anchored in Dharma, and that Mamdani therefore reads as…
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🧠 Inside the Mind of Trump: Empire, Restraint, and the Hemispheric Gamble
The author asks what kind of world Donald Trump wants to rule, arguing that the MAGA worldview is hemispheric and restrained, and that pushing regime change in Iran would mean…
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Israel, India, and the Rise of Defensive Asymmetry
The author argues that Israel’s offensive against Iran and India’s against Pakistan are stalling against tenacious defences, and sees a new ‘defensive asymmetry’ built on information shields, narrative resilience and…
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Rest in Peace
A short tribute to a family killed in the Ahmedabad plane crash, who were about to move to London, wishing the victims rest.
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🇮🇳Op Sindoor: A Podcast on Pahalgam, Pakistan, and the Limits of Peace
X.T.M reflects on the first half-hour of the BrownCast episode on Op Sindoor, covering the Pahalgam massacre, Modi and Nawaz Sharif’s failed diplomacy, the civil–military cycle in Pakistan, and India’s…
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Belated Podcast: Operation Sindoor (and Bunyan al Marsoos)
Amey hosts Omar Ali and Poulasta on the recent India–Pakistan conflict and Operation Sindoor. Omar says much of the discussion circles back to Partition and related misunderstandings, and that the…
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🪙 What’s in a Name? Mukesh, Not Mukash.
Prompted by a misspelling of Mukesh Ambani’s name, X.T.M argues that upper-caste Indians wrongly expect wealth to buy Western respect, describes a Brahmin–Baniya compact, and says China profits quietly from…
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Merit, Class, and the Ossified Dream
Writing from Newark Airport, X.T.M argues that class structures have ossified in the Global North, and suggests that educated upper-middle-class Hindus who followed the IIT and Ivy route face a…
