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A Golden Land of Fire
A short post calling an image of the #MeToo movement powerful, and arguing that India’s reckoning shows how advanced it is regionally and vindicates its liberal democratic tradition.
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Nikki Haley shows she’s a good politician in regards to religion too
The author praises Nikki Haley’s political skill, contrasting her low-key handling of religion with Bobby Jindal’s open Christian faith, and notes she says the Sikh gurdwara remains part of her…
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Brown Pundits podcast, the Browncast episode 1
The first Brown Pundits podcast, the Browncast, has been submitted to iTunes and Stitcher, and the post gives links for subscribing, with updates confirming that it is now available on…
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Saturday South Asian Questions
Two questions: whether there is a distinct Deccan culture between north and south India, and whether India needs more states, followed by the author’s dislike of Gandhinagar, a new Gujarat…
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Tweet of the Day
Amused that a white friend cooks Pakistani dishes, the author says they could be called Indo-Mughlai, notes their Turanian influences, and objects to a novelist’s use of ‘desi’ for a…
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Map of Civilizations
Prompted by a world map labelling countries in local scripts, the author finds Huntington’s equation of civilisations with religions too blunt and cites Mises on how language and dialect, as…
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The ineffectual British Monarchy and why one shouldn’t Diss Chris
A self-described High Tory defends Christopher Columbus against a comedian’s mocking video, criticises Cambridge students’ vote on honouring war veterans, and argues the Queen squandered the goodwill her father earned…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread inviting readers to discuss anything, with a request to keep other posts on topic.
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How the Greeks came to be
Using ancient DNA, the author says most Greek ancestry derives from Anatolian farmers some 9,000 years ago, with later waves from the east, a Bronze Age pulse linked to Greek…
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AJ’s video on Partition
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/10155897790948690/
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
