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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Sindhi Hindus

  • Pan-Sindhi Cross-Border Virality

    X.T.M uses a viral Sindhi song to argue that Islam is native to Sindh after 13 centuries. He says Hindus stayed around 30 per cent while Buddhism vanished, because social…

    X.T.M10 February 202618 comments
  • Do Pakistanis eat this much red meat?

    Struck by a dinner menu with no vegetarian option, X.T.M asks whether Pakistanis eat this much red meat, quotes a comment tying carbohydrate-heavy menus to Pashtun and Afghan areas, and…

    X.T.M22 February 20248 comments
  • Thoughts on the Open thread

    Setting out eight personal observations prompted by an open thread: Sindhi identity splits by religion since 1947, ethnicity and religion shape intermarriage, Indian Hindus and Muslims differ on Pakistan, India…

    BP Admin Team · opened by X.T.M28 July 20181 comment
  • 23 & Vidhi

    X.T.M jokes about marrying a Pakistani, then muses on the ancestry of Sindhi Hindus from Punjabi Khatris who moved down the Indus, and on why Sindhis love Dubai.

    X.T.M16 July 201821 comments
  • The Great Sindhi Exodus (Nakba??)

    Extracts from Narayandas Malkani’s account of the 1947 Sindhi Hindu exodus, with the poster noting how far Sindhis have since risen in Indian business and politics, and blaming the two-nation…

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