Hinduism
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Open Thread: Navarātri and Durgā Pūjā
The Open Thread for Navarātri and Durgā Pūjā, with a note on fixing the site’s back end, and why Brown Pundits readers and commenters want such different things.
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Why India will not lose her soul to missionaries
X.T.M argues that India will not lose its Hindu soul to missionaries, because societies are shaped by elites, not headcount, and India’s elite is not converting. He starts from a…
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Op Sindoor Was Not a Pakistani Defeat: Precedents Two Days From Pahalgam
Two days from the Pahalgam anniversary, three precedents worth setting down before the narrative hardens: Sindoor was not a Pakistani defeat, the Crescent commentariat cannot keep living Western lives while…
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nos ancêtres les Hindous
X.T.M argues that when Hindu voices retreat from comment threads, the space turns anti-Hindu rather than neutral. The post defends Hindu civilisational continuity, rejects the claim that Hinduism is a…
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Not All Our Ancestors Were “Just Hindu”
X.T.M rejects the claim in Aslan Pahari’s videos that Pakistanis’ pre-Islamic ancestors were uniformly Hindu. He argues the pre-8th-century Indus region was layered and regional, with Buddhists in Sindh, later…
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Is Hinduism Pagan ?
The author asks whether Hinduism is Pagan. He argues that it is not under the historical, pejorative meaning, but that the Atman doctrine fits the broader neo-pagan sense, viewing Brahman…
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India’s Eastern Face: Where Civilisation Dissolves Instead of Ending
X.T.M argues that India’s eastern edge differs from its hard northwest, northern and southern boundaries: it thins instead of ending. He says Indic culture spread to Southeast Asia through merchants…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part one of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, agrees that diversity is not India’s central problem, but questions whether the diagnosis of Partition as its trauma…
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Pakistan, a young state but an old nation
The founder reflects on moderation and the commentariat, on conversion and missionaries from a Bahá’í viewpoint, and on why he thinks South Asian borders will hold. He argues Pakistan is…
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Threads, Carpets, and PM Modi’s 75th
X.T.M reflects on celebrity birthday messages for Narendra Modi’s 75th, reads the Khans’ contrasting Hindu cultural idioms, and describes his work on Hindu sacred art, carpets and Ardhanarishvara iconography. He…
