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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 11 August 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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Notes on podcast & blog
Housekeeping notes on the blog and podcast: about 60 per cent of traffic is mobile and Indian-driven, positive reviews have dropped, downloads are about half American, editing is still done…
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Appropriation of “black and brown”
The author notes that some progressive Indian American activists now include themselves in ‘black and brown’, and argues this appropriates a term meant for marginalised groups, since Indian Americans do…
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An observation for David Ronfeldt
Cross-posted from Zenpundit, the author suggests that predicting when a radicalised thinker turns violent is a koan, because the leap from thought to act mirrors the mind-brain ‘hard problem’ of…
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U.S.-Pakistan Re-Engagement; Hamid Hussain
Hamid Hussain cautions against euphoria over the July 2019 Imran Khan and Donald Trump meeting, arguing that Pakistan’s gains are narrow, tied to Taliban talks and funds, while Washington’s Afghan…
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Genetics of Kashmiris
Points to a paper searching the Kashmiri population for Greek and Jewish admixture, and says its findings are nothing unexpected.
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Episode 63: Zack Ajmal, Pakistani American in Pakistan
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in conversation with Zack Ajmal, a Pakistani American who recently visited Pakistan, has known the host since 2002 and was behind the Harappa DNA Project,…
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Kashmir “open thread”
Kashmir open thread, opened with a brief remark that American media coverage keeps falling back on the same sources, under an image of angry Kashmiris.
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A matter of representation
A satirical note on the 2019 US International Math Olympiad team, joking that every member bar one is of East Asian heritage and calling for better South Asian representation.
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Little Qatar playing the Soviet Union in our time
The author argues that an AJ+ journalist’s attack on CNN’s Jake Tapper rings hollow because Al Jazeera is controlled by authoritarian Qatar, which he calls a caste society built on…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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