Composite Culture
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The Self-Confident Hindu
X.T.M asks whether a self-confident Hindu majority is a bad thing, arguing that India is a source rather than an appropriator of culture and that a confident majority held to…
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From Yohani to Nora: How Bollywood Mughalizes Everything
Using Royals and the Manike Mage Hithe remix, X.T.M argues that Bollywood ‘Mughalizes’ regional inputs, so India kept the composite culture without religion while Pakistan kept the religion but lost…
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Lata Mangeshkar 1929-2022. End of an era
Omar Ali marks the death of Lata Mangeshkar, calling her the queen of Indian playback singing for over fifty years, and quotes Ishtiaq Ahmed on how old Bollywood songs preserve…
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Pakistan, the lost country-
Zach argues that Pakistan’s national identity problems surface when it meets Arabs, Persians and Turks, and that it should embrace Hindu festivals and Sanskrit heritage. He calls Pakistan an insufficiently…
