June 2018
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The decline in South Asian poverty
Razib Khan notes Brookings estimates that Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most people in extreme poverty, while India’s poverty keeps falling, and cites World Bank figures…
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Why not Persian for the pre-1971 Pakistan ?
Razib Khan asks why Pakistan took Urdu rather than Persian as its national language, arguing Persian would have reduced language conflict, tied Pakistan to the Iranic world, and offered a…
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Revolution in the Bronx – the Browning of America
X.T.M welcomes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary win as an advance for ‘brown’ people. He argues Anglo discourse is binary, that Asians in British finance thin out at senior levels, and that…
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One designer’s brave decision to feature darker skinned modelst
X.T.M praises a designer’s choice to feature darker-skinned models, saying representation matters and colour bias will ease only when media reflect society, and recalls how hard it is to find…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 27 June 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
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South Asian Genotype Project, Summer 2018 Update
Razib Khan’s update on the South Asian Genotype Project: Maharashtrian Brahmins resemble South Indian Brahmins, and Gujarati Brahmins resemble North Indian ones.
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Is Erdogan the Turkish Modi?
Prompted by a question about why Indian Muslims dislike Modi but admire Erdogan, X.T.M quotes a comparison of the two leaders’ humble origins and religiously infused nationalism, and sees Turkey…
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Africa’s only Hindu island
Starting from Mauritius as Africa’s only Hindu-majority island, X.T.M speculates on Hindu island diasporas, the role of Brahmin migrants in spreading caste, and an Aryan-versus-AASI model of masculine and mother-goddess…
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Why Climate Change is a cult-
X.T.M criticises a third-party article on monsoons dispersing South Asian pollution as polemical and resting on simulated models, and argues that appeals to expert authority are a fallacy, that natural…
