Brown PunditsA Deccani miniature of a dancing girl tying her hair, Golconda, about 1700

The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

October 2014

  • A Christmas cake (for Dussehra)

    A home-made Syrian Christian sponge cake recipe, given ‘live’ by an aunty, offered for Dussehra season as a sign of faiths meeting in India.

    X.T.M2 October 20140 comments
  • 255, 261, 264, 350, 381

    Reports on five Indian Americans on the 2014 Forbes 400 list, most with technology backgrounds and IIT degrees, noting that none ranks in the top 200 and that Bharat Desai…

    X.T.M1 October 20140 comments
  • “Kem Cho Mr PM”

    The author argues that India is united only in its need for diversity, tracing how linguistic and religious demands led to new states from Punjab to Telangana, and questions Hindi…

    X.T.M1 October 20140 comments
  • An X-Y feminist

    The author argues that men can be feminists, that feminism and humanism amount to the same thing, and that the decision on abortion belongs wholly to the woman, with subsidised…

    X.T.M1 October 20140 comments
Brown Pundits