April 2019
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Is Bollywood “whitening” Indian beauty standards?
Prompted by a young actress said to look Spanish or Italian, the author asks whether Bollywood is whitening Indian beauty standards, argues India is in an ‘importing stage’, and criticises…
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The unconscious whiteness of Britain-
The author recounts a story of a Cambridge college bursar’s racist lighting remark that cost an Asian engineer a contract, and argues institutional racism, sexism and classism will keep Britain’s…
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Podcasts by Major Amin. India, Pakistan, Proxy Wars
Introduces Major Agha Humayun Amin’s podcasts, one covering his background in Afghanistan and his views that no actor there is truly non-state, that the Taliban are Pakistan’s proxy, and that…
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Self-respect starts at home, Mr Kohli..
Seeing a Virat Kohli advertisement, the author argues celebrities need taste to build Brownitude’s international reputation, then questions Shah Rukh Khan’s remark that hundreds of religions coexist in India, noting…
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2019 Easter Massacre in Sri Lanka
The author lists warning signs before the Sri Lanka Easter attacks, from vandalised Buddha statues to explosives found in January, and argues that infighting and reluctance to act against a…
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Indians are just as stupid as Americans
A short, irritated reply to a tweet accusing Razib Khan of hating white Christian saviours, saying he avoids the word ‘secular’ because of what Indians take it to mean.
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Book Review: Limited War in South Asia
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Kaushik Roy and Scott Gates’s Limited War in South Asia, faulting its inaccurate maps of Pakistani corps, its exaggeration of the Indian Army’s role in…
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Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka
A news report on coordinated Easter bombings at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka that killed at least 137, with an update that the New York Times was reporting Islamists.
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Was the nation-state inevitable?
After a podcast with Varsha Venkatasubramanian that he found unremarkable, the author turns to her view of the part British colonialism played in the emergence of Pakistan and India.
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread asking commenters to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
