decolonisation
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Thoughts That Shape Power
In a guest essay shared by Omar Ali, Varun argues that universities and think tanks train a country’s elite, and that lax standards and borrowed Western and Soviet theories, plus…
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Macaulay, English, and the Myth of Colonial Liberation
X.T.M rebuts the claim that criticising Macaulay and English harms Dalit, Shudra and Adivasi mobility, arguing that adapting to a colonial system is not vindication of it and that Macaulay…
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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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Cheap Catharsis, Expensive History
Argues that televised confrontations with Empire’s legacy, such as the General Dyer descendant on Sathnam Sanghera’s documentary, offer cheap catharsis in place of structural change. The author says they manage…
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The Self-Hating Prophecy of Indian Elites
The author argues that India’s post-independence elites live out a self-hating prophecy, seeking Western approval while denouncing local traditions as primitive, in contrast with confident ancient elites, and that this…
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Indian Female Academics of the Left
Attending a Cambridge talk on decolonisation, the author observes that Indian women in humanities are at the vanguard of the left, and argues left-liberal Indians have become de-Hindufied in ways…
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Short Note on “outsiders”
Replying to a commenter, the author says he proposed that Persian gradually replace English, not Urdu, in Pakistan, arguing English is the language of elite power and that decolonisation must…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 16: Native Americans and a globalized world
The hosts talk about Native Americans and a globalised world, an episode the introduction presents as a departure from the usual South Asian topics. It argues that the founders are…
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Let Shiva’s Holy Lingam come back to Mecca before we talk of syncretism
Writing as a Pakistani, the author argues that real decolonisation of the Subcontinent requires syncretism on both sides, with Hindu gods and rituals returning to Muslim holy sites, after an…
