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Indian genetics, the never-ending argument
Weary of Indian population genetics, the author answers a Swarajya article attacking him as racist, says ancient DNA will deliver the real results, and cautions about the allies people choose,…
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India’s Muslim Headache..
A short note, cut off after one sentence, observing that when India loses a cricket match to Pakistan some Indian Muslims celebrate, most openly in Srinagar.
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Indian media is finally reporting on the Aryan migration into South Asia
Indian media is finally covering the evidence for an Aryan migration into South Asia, after years of resistance. Built around Tony Joseph’s piece in The Hindu.
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Book Review: The Silk Roads
Reviews Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads as frustrating but useful, arguing that his claim to a new history of the world forces the story back to his own region of…
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A Glance at the AIT, OIT, Rig Veda..
Not a Vedic scholar, the author shares first impressions from reading selected Rig Veda hymns in Ralph Griffith’s translation as a window onto the Indo-European world, and invites readers to…
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Sarah Haider on Sam Harris’ show
Recommends listening to Sarah Haider’s appearance on Sam Harris’s show, saying she speaks for many people, and links her remarks on free expression.
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Aamir Khan’s Dangal Takes China by Storm
Shares an excerpt from a friend’s piece on why Dangal is a hit in China, arguing Chinese viewers respond to its focus on children’s achievement, as with the gaokao exams,…
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The last days of pre-ancient DNA Indian population genomics
Recommending three open-access papers on South Asian genetics, the author says ancient DNA will soon transform the field, and meanwhile summarises what inference allows: modern South Asians derive from two…
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India = Nigeria + Italy in terms of fertility
Using district-level data, argues that comparing India with Pakistan and Bangladesh is a major error, since parts of the northern Hindi belt and Northeast have Nigeria-like fertility of five to…
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Six Days of War. June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Reposting a review of Michael Oren’s Six Days of War on the 1967 war’s 50th anniversary, the author asks what has changed in the equation between the ‘Muslim world’ and…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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