Gharbzadegi
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Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian Walk Into Delhi
X.T.M reads the BRICS summit in Delhi, with Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian present during a US blockade of Iran, as the West’s non-Western partners rerouting around it. He sees BRICS…
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Are You Sri Lankan?
Recounts being asked by a Persian friend whether he was Sri Lankan, and coins the “Azizam Effect” for a longing among light-skinned, Westernised Middle Easterners to distance themselves from darker…
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Karan Johar dons the Pakistan flag..
Remarks on a Pakistani man’s resemblance to Karan Johar and wonders whether the ‘K-Joification’ of India will catch on in Pakistan, preferring that Turanian poetic traditions of same-sex love be…
