June 2019
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Huawei and the shift to the East
Admitting he is out of touch with tech, the author argues that Trump’s Huawei ban is pushing countries towards independence from US products, and surveys the mobile operating systems Huawei…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
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What The All-Father Means
The author explains his joke about being a scion of the All-Father: the R1a1a Y-chromosome lineage spread across Eurasia and South Asia, and star phylogenies from whole-genome data suggest a…
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Indian Female Academics of the Left
Attending a Cambridge talk on decolonisation, the author observes that Indian women in humanities are at the vanguard of the left, and argues left-liberal Indians have become de-Hindufied in ways…
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BP Podcast episode 48: Hitchhikers Guide to Hindustan
A BrownCast episode in which the host speaks to Rajat Ubhaykar about his epic journeys around India, with a note that a few inadvertent remarks by the host sparked a…
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The price of Unity for India’s Dravidians
Prompted by Afghanistan’s outsized global influence, the author muses that the four Dravidian states’ sub-nationalism vanishes on the world stage within Indian nationalism, and wonders whether more distinctive Indian minorities…
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Live Blogging: White noise, séances & colonial linguistics
Live notes on Professor Javed Majeed’s lecture on George Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India and its gramophone recordings, covering how the survey shaped the boundaries of regional languages and is…
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The Harilals of Hong Kong
Praises a video of a Hong Kong business family as the joint family done well, and suggests that diaspora trading families will keep Hinduism alive against assimilation.
