September 2019
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Listen Without Prejudice
A long personal essay on Hong Kong’s unrest, written in response to a Financial Times former bureau chief’s piece that Bloomberg’s Andy Mukherjee called essential reading. The author calls the…
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Xinjiang and Kashmir, China and India
Razib Khan observes that Kashmir and Xinjiang are geographically close, and notes that Kashmir gets far more solidarity from the Western Left than Xinjiang, though China’s actions there look far…
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Film Review: What Will People Say?
A review, with spoilers, of What Will People Say?, in which a Pakistani teenage girl in Norway is taken to Pakistan by her father after being caught with a boy.…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 29 September 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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A tale of two Pakistans
Contrasts Bangladesh’s growth, the highest in Asia, with Pakistan’s, the lowest in South Asia, and argues that Pakistan is becoming a macroeconomic midget unless it moves away from oligarchy.
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Review: The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple
Major Agha Amin’s longer review of Dalrymple’s The Anarchy calls the author a jester who plays to the gallery, lists alleged factual errors on dates and places, and argues the…
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“OBC” in West Bengal a social construct?
Quotes a genetics paper on Birbhum, West Bengal, finding that Other Backward Classes individuals diverge only about 225 years from general-caste people, so the category looks more a political construct…
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Browncast Episode 68, Conversation with Pratik Chougule
BrownCast episode 68: the hosts talk to Pratik Chougule, a conservative and proud globalist who has gone from Trump’s policy team to critic, about a future conservatism sharply at odds…
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Book Review: The Anarchy (William Dalrymple)
A short review of Dalrymple’s The Anarchy by Major Amin, who argues the East India Company restored order in a subcontinent already in anarchy. The host adds that Dalrymple’s books…
