July 2019
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Episode 59: Suhag Shukla of the HAF
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Suhag Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation, after which the host suspects the HAF is a less political Hindu variant of AIPAC whose international-affairs…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 27 July 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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Why did Bhutto Select Zia as Chief
An extract from Major Agha Amin’s 2001 interview with Major General Nuk Babar on why Zulfikar Ali Bhutto chose Zia as army chief, citing his feigned humility, flattery and displays…
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Book Review: Descent into Chaos
Major A. H. Amin’s 2008 review of Ahmed Rashid’s Descent into Chaos argues the book is acceptable to the West because it fits western perceptions, and lists what he sees…
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Hindutva jumped the shark
The author reacts with shock to a man who claims to speak for Muslims because his children’s nanny is one, comparing it to the film The Help and arguing that…
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Podcast with Suhag Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation
Announces that the author will interview Suhag Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation for the BrownCast, invites reader questions in the comments, and notes the podcast is recorded and already…
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William Dalrymple, Imran Khan & Xerxes’s Jinnah moment-
Replying to a reader who calls his worldview ‘Urduised’, the author defends a Persian, Arabic and Urdu cultural ideal, says William Dalrymple’s like of his tweet has made him warm…
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Rethinking privilege in the 21st-century
Prompted by a Communist academic’s attack on J. D. Vance over his writing on fertility, the author notes Vance’s mixed-race son and that his Indian American wife grew up in…
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From the earth to the moon!
Congratulates India on launching Chandrayaan, linking an explainer and a Wall Street Journal piece on a 21st-century space race between India and China, and says humanity benefits whoever wins.
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Imran Khan in DC
Noting that some 30,000 Pakistani Americans gathered in Washington to hear Imran Khan, the author asks why a leader facing economic crisis draws such crowds when Bangladesh is doing better,…
