July 2019
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Browncast Episode 55: 17 years in the blogosphere
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with old friend Aziz Poonawalla about 17 years in the blogosphere, its rise and fall and the Twitter world, ending on politics, including his roots…
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Super30, Casteocracy & Blacked Up Hrithik Roshan
Reviewing the film Super 30, the author finds Hrithik Roshan blacking up to play an OBC emblematic of India’s ‘Casteocracy’, argues that the IIT and IIM system suits upper castes,…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 13 July 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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Why Cambridge University needs a central Asian Kitchen
Describing two BAME initiatives at Cambridge, the author argues the university should convert an old building into an Asian mess with proper chefs, and favours a conversational, ‘sugar in the…
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When Brownz don’t stand together; the Coloniser wins
After a World Cup without a South Asian finalist, the author argues that India’s wish to be ‘Western’ and its fixation on Pakistan hurt the subcontinent, and that peace needs…
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AOC’s brain has gone and done it now!
On the row over Saikat Chakrabarti wearing a Subhas Chandra Bose T-shirt, the author argues that Bose’s Axis alliance was mostly pragmatic, like Finland’s with Germany, and that Western critics…
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Browncast Episode 54: Sojourn in India as a international Parsi
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Iona Italia, a Parsi raised in Europe, about her experience of returning to the Indian subcontinent; she hosts the Two for Tea podcast, edits…
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The end of the European age
Using a chart of Europe’s share of world population falling from 28 per cent in 1913 to about 10 per cent now, the author argues that talk of colonisers and…
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Browncast Episode 53: Memories of partition: Amrik Chattha
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Dr Amrik Chattha, author of Safar: A Child’s Walk to Freedom During the Partition of India, about life in a Punjabi village before Partition…
