March 2019
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BrownCast Podcast episode 25: Christoph, center-left edgelord on social justice, Islam, and cosmopolitanism
The host talks to Christoph, an early contributor to this weblog now known on Twitter for punching both Right and Left from the centre, about his mixed-race identity and cosmopolitan…
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Between Tariq and Columbus
A review of Brian Catlos’s Kingdoms of Faith, a history of Islamic Spain. The reviewer finds it a good introduction, noting its theme that confessional identity was one of many…
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Raj Koothrapali is a shame on all Brown Men
Zach agrees with a commenter that the Big Bang Theory’s Raj Koothrapali harms the image of brown men, adding observations about caste, Hindu insensitivity to Pakistanis, and Pakistan’s brand versus…
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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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Egalitarian/Equality and mobility in Society.
The poster shares excerpts from an article and its comments on inequality and social mobility, noting that mobility is highest where Scandinavian ancestry is common, and wonders whether the same…
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Pakistan, the lost country-
Zach argues that Pakistan’s national identity problems surface when it meets Arabs, Persians and Turks, and that it should embrace Hindu festivals and Sanskrit heritage. He calls Pakistan an insufficiently…
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Beware of Hinditvas
Zach defends his earlier criticism of Hindi as an artificial language, dubbing his critics ‘Hinditvas’, and says liberal Pakistanis are equally hypocritical about Islam. He blames both Nehru and Jinnah-style…
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THE FAITH THAT NEVER FADES: THE HISTORICAL RESILIENCE OF HINDUISM
Zach introduces a piece by his friend MJ on the resilience of Hinduism through centuries of persecution, framed by his own decision to mark Cheti Chand rather than Norouz. MJ’s…
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The lure of the Turanian triangle-
Zach follows a travel vlogger’s affection for Pakistan and Iran, hoping for a Turanian cultural connection across Iran, Iraq and the Stans, and observes that yogurt, linked with Iran, is…
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Will Indians become white, will India become Western?
Zach wonders whether India will become Western, citing Alia Bhatt’s Filmfare dress, and argues Pakistan is sailing out of South Asia. He suggests Hindutva is the Abrahamification of Hinduism while…
