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Rex fuit Elizabeth, nunc est regina Iacobus
A link to Bilawal Bhutto’s first interview with the Indian media, which the poster thinks he did quite well in, with a wry remark about his coat.
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Review: The Holocaust, A New History
The reviewer praises Laurence Rees’s readable account of the Holocaust from post-war Germany onward, which shows a gradual, uneven escalation with no single directive, and agrees with its case that…
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South Asian genetic relationships
At my other blog. Some charts.
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Notes on South Asian genetics, 2018
Prompted by a claim of genetic purity among Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, the author argues South Indian Brahmins show gene flow from local populations, and surveys what Harappa-project and other data…
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Oh to be a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin
A Konkani Gaud Saraswat Brahmin writer notes, via Ajit Pai, what he sees as a compulsive urge among Indians to name-drop a high caste, and recalls the origin legends of…
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Aziz Ansari
Asks for thoughts on the Aziz Ansari controversy, and whether it has reinforced stereotypes of Brown and perhaps Muslim men in the dating market.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
