February 2019
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Complete Victory For Imran Khan
Zach hails Pakistan’s offer to return the captured Indian pilot as a complete victory for Imran Khan and a humiliation for India, claiming it dooms Modi, unites Pakistanis and revives…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 18: India and Pakistan; Confrontation in the Subcontinent
Razib and Omar talk to Major Amin and Dr Hamid Hussain about the India-Pakistan confrontation after the Pulwama attack and what comes next, covering its military and political aspects. A…
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A toxic cocktail of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness
The poster says he knows little about the India-Pakistan crisis but criticises a social-media commentator’s self-absorbed remarks, calling them a toxic mix of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness.
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Tensions and BP Readership
The poster says readership is running at about eight times the daily average, five times the previous record, and that the cause is unclear but it is a tense day.
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Why China needs Pakistan-
A tweet from The Economist on China’s one-child policy, with the poster’s one-line comment that Pakistan’s destiny, if it survives, is to be China’s Bihar.
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The Belgian neutrality is over; India’s next steps on Kashmir
A collection of tweets and comments on the India-Pakistan crisis after the pilot’s capture, including Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Rahul Roushan, with the poster’s view that China is the only…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 17: India-Pakistan conflict, Hindu nationalism, Cosmopolitanism
The hosts talk to Amey, a third-culture Indo-British-American professional, about the India-Pakistan border clashes (about 35 per cent of the conversation), Hindu nationalism, Maratha nationalism, knitting and racism, and the…
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I now support quotas on (South) Asian Americans at elite universities
Starting from a Harvard student campaign against a law professor who represents Harvey Weinstein, the author argues that the presumption of innocence matters most when it is hardest, and links…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
A standing open thread: readers are asked to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
