Indic civilisation
-
Is Kabir Right?
X.T.M tests Kabir’s claim that many Hindu-nationalist readers come to BP to litigate Pakistan and Muslims. The essay argues that blaming outsiders gives India a permanent excuse, since caste, corruption…
-
Bin Qasim’s Thousand-Year Wound
X.T.M argues that India and Pakistan face a fault line over a thousand years old, dating to Muhammad bin Qasim’s landing in Sindh in 711. Each side now speaks only…
-
The saffron and the crescent – why BP matters
The author argues that candid comments from Pakistani Muslim commenters on interfaith marriage and idol worship expose a Hindu-Muslim mismatch in worldviews that Indian liberals avoid confronting, and cites Pew…
-
India That Is Bharat: The Exceptional Uniqueness and the Dual Identity
X.T.M answers the charge that the site treats India more gently than Pakistan. The post argues India is both a seventy-nine-year-old state and a civilisation of some five thousand years,…
-
Brown Pandas: Rising Toward a Saffron Crescent.
X.T.M argues that India-Pakistan hostility, like that between Iran and Israel, has been generative but miscalibrated, and that Pakistan’s elite chose to dominate a poor country. The post doubts the…
-
Dhurandhar The Revenge trailer
Insane. Great music again. Honsla Eendhan Badla.
-
Pakistan average DNA as a country
-
A Pakistani Wedding That Refused Not to Be Indian
X.T.M reads the wedding of Nawaz Sharif’s grandson, with Indian designers and Indic styling, as evidence of Indic soft power. He argues that Pakistani weddings show continuity of a subcontinental…
-
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…
-
South Asia Is an Ugly Postcolonial Euphemism
X.T.M argues that South Asia is a bureaucratic euphemism from American area studies, not a neutral term. He holds that India is the old name for the whole subcontinent and…
