March 2019
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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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Two phases of Brown Pundits
A one-line note that Brown Pundits engagement and traffic rose to a new plateau in February 2018, for reasons the poster cannot explain.
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1971, Majlis & Vande Mataram
Zach recounts arguing ‘Team Pak’ in a Cambridge debate on 1971, saying the case turned on Indian interference rather than Bangladeshi independence. He then weighs in on the Majlis logo…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 23: Dr. Jeffery Long on Hinduism, history and politics
The hosts talk to Jeffery Long, a religious studies professor at Elizabethtown College and Vedanta practitioner, about the nature of Hindu philosophy, its interaction with Islam, the astika and nastika…
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Pakistan, India, Israel..
Hamid Hussain doubts rumours of an Israeli pilot in Pakistani custody and cautions against fake news in nationalist fervour, saying Israeli help to India is likelier to be technical support…
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Cambridge Union Debate on 1971 War
A short note on the relaunch of the Cambridge Majlis after nearly thirty years, with a debate on the 1971 war, and a link on how its members helped end…
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How Indian are Pakistanis (vs. non-Indian)
The author argues that affluent, liberal Pakistanis understate Pakistan’s cultural ties to the wider Middle East and fixate on India instead, citing a 2012 Aspen Institute panel where Pakistan’s speaker…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 22: Ajay Verghese on pre-colonial India, Hindus, Muslims, etc
The hosts talk to Ajay Verghese, an assistant professor of political science at UC Riverside who has written on ethnic and religious conflict in pre-colonial, colonial and independent India. They…
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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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The Pulwama attack and its Aftermath
A reader-style account of the February 2019 Pulwama attack and the Indian airstrike on Balakot, the downed MiG-21 and pilot’s release, and the political pressures behind them. It also links…
