Discussion on India with Salvatore Babones
On the 30th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Comparative Sociologist Salvatore Babones on the heels of his second trip to India on what he felt about the country, its challenges with international opinion and how it can overcome these hurdles. Do Check it out.
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Suhel Seth on Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence (ChatGpt) on Advertising & Branding
On the 29th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Suhel Seth (India’s premier marketing, branding and advertising expert) on The Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence (ChatGpt) on Advertising & Branding.
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Nithin Jayaraj on Indic Workout Tools, Fitness Training & Bodybuilding
On the 28th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Nithin Jayaraj on Indic Workout Tools, Fitness Training & Bodybuilding. We also spoke about dieting and whether it is good to consume dietary supplements.
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Episode 19 – The Rajputs
Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above!
The references for the podcast are:
1. Early History of Rajputs (750 to 1000 A.D.) by C.V Vaidya
2. History and Culture of the Indian People – Vol III, IV, V, VI & VII
3. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries by André Wink
4. Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries
by André Wink
5. The Political History of the Hunas in India by Atreyi Biswas
6. The Making of Early Medieval India by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Intellectual Brown Web
Sarah Haider, Shadi Hamid, myself and Murtaza Hussain recorded an impromptu podcast that we titled the “Intellectual Brown Web.” These are basically people I know well (I am good friends with both Sarah and Shadi) or who got involved in Twitter threads repeatedly (Murtaza). But there is no “Hindo-origin person.” Since I don’t give a shit about representation or affirmative action I don’t care too much…but this got me thinking, what based Hindu Americans would you have on? I know plenty of based Hindus from India…but most Hindu Indian Americans are Rho Khanna at the most based.
I mean think about this: why the fuck am I having to write long pieces about how the anti-caste discrimination stuff is bullshit? I’m just a tech entrepreneur who isn’t even from a Hindu background. Suhag at HAF does stuff and others, but where are the big hitters? Instead you have public Hindu Americans proudly pushing this stuff.
Note: there are plenty of based Hindu Americans who are doctors, engineers and business people. They just aren’t public people. Which is fine, but if you don’t speak for yourself, at some point Razib Khan is going to get tired of doing so.
The Keralite Martial Art Kalaripayattu & How it Influenced the Foundation of Chinese Kung Fu
On the 27th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Ram Sundar on ‘Kalaripayatu’ – The Ancient Keralite martial art tradition, its principles and the combat training methods.
We also covered the fascinating and less known story of a South Indian prince Bodidharma, going to China and teaching the shaolin monks this martial art. This leads us to the origin story of modern day Kung Fu which sprouted from Kalari.
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Mr. Tilak Devasher on his book The Pashtuns- A Contested History
Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above!
Mr. Tilak Devasher, Author, Member, National Security Advisory Board and former Special Secretary, Govt of India joins Maneesh, Somnath and Dr. Ali to talk about his latest book The Pashtuns- A Contested History.
Abhivardhan on Indic Futurism – A Civilizational Vision for the Future
On the 26th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Abhivardhan from Bharat Pacific on the topic of Indic Futurism – A Civilizational Vision for the Future.
It is a topic that is part of the larger vision of Indic Modernity. While the Traditionalists and Conservatives have been well documented in the Socio-Cultural Civilizational space, the Indic Modernists have been less studied.
While Modernists do study the past and take lessons from it. What differentiates them from others in the Civilizational renaissance movement is that they are present in the future and present a more futuristic vision.
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Open Thread, 2/17/2023, Brown Pundits
Nimrata Nikki Haley is running for President of the United States of American.
1) She’s a donor-class wet dream and a throwback to the pre-Trump Republican party. I don’t think this is going to work, but who knows?
2) It’s America, you do what you want, but not going to lie; Bobby Jindal was always a bit too unctuous in his urge to emphasize his American bonafides. Haley’s biography strikes me as more natural and relatable.
3) I think she may be tapped for VP on identity politics grounds by the Republican party. Interesting VP debate with Kamala Devi Harris.