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Right Hand Path Orientalism vs Left Hand Path Orientalism
Replying to a post on Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind, the author argues readers take from it a tendency to blame British colonialism for caste, which he calls ‘Right Hand…
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Clarifying Two Misconceptions
Though a critic of the Pakistan Army’s political interference, the author sets out to correct two common misconceptions, first examining whether General Zia played a role in Jordan’s Black September…
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Aryan Migration and its Discontents
Recapping new genetic findings that Indo-European herders migrated into the subcontinent about 4,000 years ago, the author focuses on the politics, arguing that the Hindutva reaction to political uses of…
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The Qatar Crisis
Hamid Hussain explains the June 2017 crisis in which Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE cut ties with Qatar and imposed an embargo, tracing it to Qatar’s growing diplomatic…
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The pork episode of Master of None
Responding to a review of the Master of None episode on religion, the author finds it somewhat unbelievable, and notes that Aziz Ansari calls himself an atheist, not a liberal…
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Hasan Minhaj and Aziz Ansari: your race defines you and it doesn’t
After watching Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King, the author contrasts him with Aziz Ansari: Minhaj foregrounds politics in his comedy while Ansari does not, and each handles differently the question of…
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Indian genetics, part n of many
Points to a near-definitive piece on South Asian historical population genetics and adds a vague thought that the Hittite and Mitanni takeovers of Hattian and Hurrian cultures may offer lessons.
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de-propagandizing the Aryan invasion debate: a rebuttal to A. L. Chavda’s rebuttal
A geneticist says he is writing a major article on Indian population genetics, will take a less strident tone than Tony Joseph’s Hindu piece, and answers a rebuttal by A.…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
