Hinduism
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The Long Defeat: How Hinduphobia Hollowed Out Pakistan
X.T.M reads a Dawn article’s misspelling and ordering of religions as evidence of Hinduphobia in Pakistani discourse, which he describes as erasure rather than violence, and explains his new policy…
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Hinduphobia Exists, But Pakistan Was Not Born from It
X.T.M argues that Hinduphobia exists, mostly as dismissal and erasure in academic and diasporic discourse, but that Pakistan was not born of it. He sees the Partition as a Muslim…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha continues a project reading Nick Land’s accelerationism through Hindu texts, introducing Land’s “technocapital singularity” as a parasitic, self-assembling intelligence and framing it as the starting point for a…
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Madhuri is stronger than the Ambanis
X.T.M reads the Ambanis’ removal of the elephant Madhuri to Vantara as a clash between animal welfare and sacred tradition in Hindu veneration of nature, and contrasts a plural, absorbing…
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Brown Pundits: Broad Church or Narrow Canon?
X.T.M answers Kabir’s charge of ‘soft Hindutva’ bias at Brown Pundits, arguing the forum’s bias is civilisational engagement rather than Hindutva, that Hindu introspection drives much of its energy, and…
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Hans Zimmer and the Polite Dismissal of the Ramayana
X.T.M argues that Hans Zimmer’s polite refusal to hear the Ramayana explained was a dismissal, not reverence, and that Indian awe at it shows civilisational confusion; he adds a reflection…
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If You Have a Side, You Don’t Care for the Other Side
X.T.M argues that partisanship is not empathy: those who already have a side do not truly care for the other, as Pakistanis and Indians alike use the other’s minorities as…
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Let Hindus Decide for India
X.T.M argues that a coalition of Islamists, liberal elites and foreign commentators resists Hindu political consolidation, that Hinduism and India are coterminous, and that those who opted out of Hindustan…
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Is It Indian Culture or Hindu (Brahmin) Culture that creates excellence?
Prompted by Faizan Zaki’s Scripps Spelling Bee win, X.T.M asks whether Indian-American excellence stems from Indian culture or specifically Hindu and Brahmin culture, arguing it is encoded in the cultural…
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South India Makes British India Hindu?
The author argues that had South India separated in 1947, the rest of British India would today be a Muslim-majority bloc, citing population figures, and suggests the South’s inclusion kept…
