June 2019
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Browncast Ep 44: Game of Thrones, part 1
A BrownCast episode, the first of two, in which the host discusses the end of Game of Thrones with neuroscientist Adam Calhoun, with a follow-up planned with a geneticist and…
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Iranian Ghee
Prompted by a video on food in Kermanshah, the author argues that copious ghee explains why its cooking is so delicious, and that signature Iranian dishes are variants of Iraqi-Syrian…
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BJP slips on Hindi; Tamil Nadu stands firm
Quoting Garga Chatterjee on how Hindi was pushed against Urdu in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, the author argues that imposing Hindi is a bad idea and that Hindu nationalism, a many-headed…
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Browncast Episode 43: Indian Elections, the Aftermath, with Kushal Mehra
A BrownCast episode on the 2019 Indian election result with Kushal Mehra of the Carvaka Podcast, who thinks Modi’s win owed most to delivering benefits to the poorest, plus the…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
