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The Ambani wedding has no taste, no class and no intimacy
A short comment that the Ambani wedding has no taste, class or intimacy, feeling obligatory rather than real, and noting that Hillary Clinton and John Kerry attended but not the…
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Forbidden Fruit. Military in Politics in Pakistan
An article from 2003 by Dr Hamid Hussain on how soldiers become involved in politics, tracing the politicisation of Pakistan’s officer corps and how repeated military rule has militarised politics,…
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The Evidence for Out Of India – Part I
In part one of a planned series, the author sets out evidence that Indo-European languages migrated out of India, starting from the Yamnaya complex and arguing that the Maykop culture,…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 11 December 2018, with Zack asking what happened in the Indian elections, whether results matched predictions, and suggesting the big winner is Indian democracy.
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Sex and the British-Indian Army
Dr Hamid Hussain discusses sexuality in the Raj and the army, arguing India was sexually more liberal than Victorian Britain when the British arrived. He describes the regulated, medically inspected…
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Brahmins really need to stop caste-dropping; seriously!
A short complaint that Brahmins on social media often humble-brag their caste, which the author calls poor taste, with links to two tweets.
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The Ambanis got it so wrong with their Wedding Celebration.
The author argues that the Ambanis got their wedding celebration wrong, comparing it with the year’s four other Indian celebrity weddings, which he judges more dignified. He sets this against…
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Brown Pundits – Episode 4, three Hindus talk about the Golden Age of Islam
Episode 4 of the BP Podcast, in which three Hindus discuss the Golden Age of Islam, with a note that ‘Hindu’ is used here in its older, geographical sense, and…
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Jack D. rapes the East
On Jack Dorsey’s Vipassana retreat in Myanmar, the author argues that tracking meditation with an Apple Watch and an Oura ring shows Westerners hacking Eastern practice, and misses that one…
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Is Colored a bad word now?
The author, hounded on Twitter for using the word ‘coloured’, says he dislikes sanitising language and argues that coloured Britons should back the Commonwealth over the EU, a ‘white man’s…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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