India
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The Long Dark Night for India’s Muslims
X.T.M reads a Bengal order on Vande Mataram in madrasas as a symptom of India’s Muslims being absorbed into a Hindu-Persianate mainstream. It argues Pakistan and upper-caste liberalism accelerated this,…
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Dhurandhar, Netflix and the India-Pakistan Asymmetry
The post asks why Netflix serves India so much more than Pakistan, as Pakistani viewers complain about promotion of Dhurandhar: The Revenge. It answers with market size, Indian users far…
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CJP and colour revolutions
Open thread opening on the CJP movement and colour revolutions: a commentator cites Rashid Kidwai’s view that it may boomerang on the opposition, and asks whether a rootless generation will…
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On “Press Freedom” and Prejudice.
The author objects to Norwegian newspaper coverage of the Indian Prime Minister’s visit, citing terms such as ‘snake charmer’ as bigotry, and argues that mainstream coverage rules permit far more…
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7 Steps to Financial Freedom: My First Book
An investment adviser announces his first book on personal finance. He describes the rapid growth of Indian retail investing, warns about fin-influencers and derivatives trading (citing a SEBI study that…
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Open thread Indian scenes
Open thread on Indian politics: a commentator’s view of Vijay’s secularism and his temple visits, and a view that the Tata group’s difficulties stem from too much power given to…
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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Sanam Saeed at Cannes, Alia Bhatt Out of Frame?
The post reads Sanam Saeed’s Hussain Rehar couture at Cannes 2026, set against Alia Bhatt’s L’Oréal appearance, as an apparent civilisational reversal that is not one: Pakistan and Iran inherit…
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Open Thread- Love Jihad?
Open thread opening on interfaith marriage and ‘Love Jihad’, with a quoted view that it is conversion when only one partner shares the other’s culture, and a pointer to Dr…
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Why Caste Formed In India and how the heck it could have been maintained! – A Structural Model
Dr Rajorshi Datta argues that strict caste endogamy in India came from structural predisposition rather than luck, using a model of subcontinents as ‘containers’ and upstream geographic and ecological variables.…
