Nowruz
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Lord Zoroaster’s Fire Still Burns
X.T.M uses a Molla Nasreddin cartoon of Zoroaster to argue that Persian customs survived Islamisation. He holds that Iran is a civilisation-state, not a regime problem, so Western pressure is…
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Norouz or Nowhere: The Identity Pakistan Can’t Claim
X.T.M asks why Pakistanis who claim a Persianate high culture ignore Norouz, noting that Aurangzeb abolished it, and argues that Pakistan’s post-colonial elite curates rupture rather than heritage, even though…
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Sizdeh Bedar, Identity Whiplash & the Gandharan Delusion
After a break around Sizdeh Bedar, the author reflects on being a 1.5-generation migrant who is neither quite immigrant nor native. He also dismisses Pakistani claims to be the last…
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Twelve Days of Norouz
A personal reflection on Nowruz as a twelve-day ritual of recalibration, written by a part-Persian Bahá’í of distant Zoroastrian descent. The author describes cutting a cake at the equinox, calendars…
