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Indian liberals make for excellent company
After a talk at the Cambridge South Asian Forum, the author, a Pakistani, finds postmodern Indian liberal arts students charming and close to his own views, but wonders whether such…
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Pakistan’s Ghost in the Indus
Recounting a shop encounter in Cambridge with a father and son who first said they were Indians, then Gujarati Sindhis, the author reflects on his intuition for ‘people of the…
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The Jatts do descend from Scythians
A short post pointing to a new paper on the genetic ancestry of modern Indus Valley populations in north-west India, under a title claiming the Jatts descend from Scythians.
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The Pakistani Myth that made us Great-
Prompted by Ambedkar’s account of why Brahmins gave up beef and began worshipping the cow, the author doubts the Indian interest in ancestry testing, notes that genetics suggests caste predates…
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Major General Akbar Khan
Hamid Hussain profiles Major General Akbar Khan (1912-1994), a Pathan from Charsadda commissioned from Sandhurst in 1934, tracing his Frontier Force service and Second World War battalion before the Kashmir…
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Defending Hindu Honour from Liberalistanis
The author shares a Twitter exchange in which a Pakistani user criticised Islam’s treatment of women and Hinduism, and says a later exchange with another user led him to see…
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How nice it is to have a brown slave girl.
The author argues that a quiet, unspoken racism persists in Britain even for educated and wealthy minorities, citing a news-presenter gag and Nish Kumar’s complaint about being called Patel, and…
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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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Notes the emergence of “Indic civilization”
A supplement to the podcast clarifying terms: the author, a self-described semantic instrumentalist, says disagreements over words matter less than the concepts behind them, and uses ‘Indic’ for the civilisation…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
