Liberalism
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Liberal college bastions are taking body blows
Indosaurus recounts the reported plagiarism affair around Cambridge professor Jason Arday, compares it with Claudine Gay’s ousting at Harvard, and asks whether Indians and Pakistanis back progressive causes abroad yet…
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For Gandhiji
Indosaurus, once unconvinced of Gandhi’s importance, defends him against attacks from the liberal left, which Indosaurus argues lack context, and links a longer Substack defence of his most contested behaviour…
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Mocking Modi Is the Only Nationalism Left-Liberals Know
X.T.M reads an anti-Modi cartoon on US tariffs as showing that India’s liberal critics now accept it belongs at the great-power table, and argues they offer no alternative to Modi’s…
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REPOST: On identifying as a liberal
A reposted older essay in which the author explains why he identifies as a liberal despite being labelled a Hindutva liberal or closet Sanghi, setting out his republican and secularist…
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The Game We Can Smell
X.T.M argues that liberal-left language has become a disguise for Hinduphobia, and that Hindus are expected to love the Mughals. After the death of Asha Bhosle, the post says Partition…
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Why Pakistani Liberals Remain a Colonised Intellectual Class
X.T.M argues that a dispute over a factual correction showed how Pakistani liberals defer to credentials such as an Oxford degree, a habit he traces to colonisation, and calls on…
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India Is No Longer Legible to Pakistani Liberals
X.T.M argues that Pakistani liberals, especially those of Muhajir or North Indian lineage, project a pre-1947 India that no longer exists, using India as a stage for their liberalism while…
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The Myth of the “Average Pakistani”
X.T.M rebuts a commenter’s praise of a ‘liberal’ Shia couple from Baltistan as unlike the ‘average Pakistani’, calling the framing patronising and a colonial hangover, and arguing that Pakistanis prize…
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Rajaji: Our forgotten hero
Reposting a 2018 piece, the author argues that C. Rajagopalachari, Rajaji, is perhaps the most forgotten of India’s founding leaders, and that his free-market ideas and Swatantra Party remain relevant…
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The Die is Cast: the death of Indian Liberalism
Nachiketa explains how his politics have moved since 2019, a moderate liberal critic of the BJP who now blames Indian liberals’ stance on Article 370, the CAA protests and the…
