June 2019
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Browncast Ep 46: the Professor Devji Podcast
A BrownCast episode with Professor Devji on how the BJP mobilises votes, the coded language of ‘appeasement’, Hindutva’s aim of removing state control of Hinduism, how it frames caste politics,…
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Live Blogging: Documenting post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka
Live notes on Dr Farzana Haniffa’s lecture on post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka, covering the 1958 and 1983 anti-Tamil violence, Muslim concentration in the East, anti-Halal campaigns and the…
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Browncast Ep 45: Jordan Anaya on “data thuggery”
A BrownCast episode with Jordan Anaya, a self-styled ‘data thug’ who helped end Brian Wansink’s career, on scientific methodology and open science, described by the host as a brutal realist…
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Live Blogging – the Economics of Religion in India
Live notes on Dr Sri Iyer’s talk about her book on the economics of religion in India, defining religion, surveying affiliation and median ages across faiths, and citing findings that…
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Untitled, 5 June 2019
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30 years since Tiananmen
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Hitchhiking through India-
Introduces a podcast with Rajat Ubhaykar, who hitchhiked six months through India, and says it left the host feeling an urban Hindu hegemonic outlook obscures India’s profound pluralism.
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Indian Americans “trump” Brit-Asians
Observes that Indian-Americans, though 1 per cent of the US, have seats at a business roundtable between the US President and the British PM, while British society stays invisibly white,…
