May 2019
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Aladdin!
A short comment that Disney’s Aladdin is likely to be a hit and Naomi Scott a break-out star, noting the online backlash over casting her and observing that her Jasmine’s…
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Browncast Ep 40: Wael Taji on the Topology of Privilege
On Browncast Episode 40, the host talks to Wael Taji, a graduate student at Peking University in China, about privilege and race relations in modern China, its changing view of…
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By request — the ouroboros game
Responding to a reader’s request, the author gives examples of the ouroboros, the serpent biting its own tail, from Egypt, alchemy and Vedic and Upanishadic texts to film and art,…
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Browncast Ep 39: Carl Zha, Pakistan, and China’s demographic crisis
On Browncast Episode 39, returning guest Carl Zha joins the hosts to discuss the controversy over Pakistani brides in China and wider demographic concerns in Chinese society, with the host…
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Modi has failed us but at least he put the Muslims in their place
Extracts from Kapil Komireddi’s column on India’s 2019 election, which says Hindu voters tell him Modi has failed them but has at least put Muslims in their place, plus the…
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Analysing The Election Podcast –
Reflecting on reaction to Browncast Episode 38, the author argues that new Hindu intellectuals reject the Nehruvian secular settlement and want India organised on dharmic principles with a Hindu soul…
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Why I find it difficult to debate Hinditvas + liberal Zionists
The author argues that Pakistan and Iran should be judged as Islamic Republics, but India and Israel, which claim to be liberal democracies, must meet those standards. He says Israel’s…
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Browncast Ep 38: Indian Elections
On Browncast Episode 38, hosts and guests MJ, Kushal and Vidhi debate India’s 2019 election, covering caste dynamics, the BJP’s rise in Bengal and Odisha, personality politics, communalism, and a…
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The Height of Hubris; “White Weddings.”
Arguing that Western civilisation is not evolving into a universal global one, the author criticises a BBC piece asking whether weddings are too white as presumptuous, sets it beside a…
