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An Extension for General Bajwa
Hamid Hussain criticises the three-year extension Imran Khan announced for army chief General Bajwa, arguing it has nothing to do with national security and is bad for both the army…
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Metaphors for full, empty, void, overflowing — Indian trains
Two contrasting images of Indian trains, one packed and one empty with women walking the tracks, offered as a binary and a metaphor for non-duality, with a link to an…
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Most of the “East Asian” in East Bengalis is not from the Munda
A further data analysis suggests most of the East Asian ancestry in East Bengalis does not come from Munda sources; the author flags an unexplained South Chinese signal in Bangladeshis…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 1 September 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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Invisibility, Jeff Sharlet’s The Family, and the goddess Kubjikaa
The author traces one principle of influence across Doug Coe’s account of The Family, a Defense One article on surveillance and Mark Dyczkowski’s work on the goddess Kubjika, as an…
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South Asian PCA
From his own data analysis, the author finds that Bengalis sit on the Khasi and Tibeto-Burman cline rather than the Munda cline, with Bangladeshis appearing as the inverse of the…
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How Islam’s greatness redounds to Indian religion
The author argues that the more transformative Islam appears in the genetic and cultural record, the more remarkable it is that India was still about 75 per cent non-Muslim on…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
