Global South
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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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Modi Puts India Firmly in the Israel-US Camp
X.T.M cites journalist Bharat Bhushan’s view in Deccan Herald that Modi’s support for Israel and silence on the US-Israeli strikes on Iran put India firmly in the US-Israeli camp and…
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Open Thread
Open thread in which the author says the commenters’ boycott has made the site quieter, that the Indo-Pak frame no longer fits him, and that BP may drift towards the…
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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…
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The Skyborne Castes
X.T.M uses a flight from Cairo as an extended metaphor for the world: seats allocated by race, region and power, with the Global South in economy, the West in business…
