February 2019
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Brown is all, all is brown
Razib Khan argues for a liberal, broad view of who counts as ‘brown’ or desi, using adoptees raised as English-speaking American Christians and converts to South Asian religions as test…
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Witches Brew. Saudis, Iran, Pakistan
Hamid Hussain responds to questions on the Warsaw conference, where Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of Arab states and Israel standing together against Iran, noting the walked-back wording, and weighs the positions…
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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.
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Is Pakistan (or Pak sponsored group) responsible for the attacks?
Zach relays a friend’s view that India’s high-tech monitoring makes smuggling across the Line of Control near impossible, and discusses who was behind the Pulwama attack. He says the situation…
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The Immigrants Anthem
The poster shares an Irish Times passage likening love for a second country to love for a second child, and says it expresses his own view of national identity as…
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An Eye transplant and a Pound of Flesh
An article by Bhante Dhammika from a Sri Lankan newspaper on the town of Sibi in Balochistan as the setting of the Sivi Jataka legend, reproduced in full with little…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 16: Native Americans and a globalized world
The hosts talk about Native Americans and a globalised world, an episode the introduction presents as a departure from the usual South Asian topics. It argues that the founders are…
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Coloniser mansplaining beautiful Indian girl
Zach calls out a man in a Netflix clip as epitomising the ‘coloniser complex’ for talking over a woman who rejected him, and objects that Netflix saw nothing wrong with…
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Humble Address to his Majesty-
Zach comments on Imran Khan asking the Saudi crown prince to treat Pakistani labourers well, calling the response ‘ambassador of Pakistan’ a case of Pakistani improvisation. He mocks the posture…
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Can India and Pakistan Make Peace?
Major Agha H. Amin’s 2013 article argues that Pakistan’s military desire for peace with India is a tactical response to US pressure over Afghanistan, as with Musharraf’s earlier overtures. The…
