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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,…
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On being Indian
A guest reflection by The Living Lakshmi, born in Madras and living in Britain, on why expatriates stay tethered to India and what being Indian means: a country of many…
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Dark Skin & Getting Married | Stand Up Comedy by Saikiran
Praising comic Saikiran’s stand-up on dark skin and marriage as a challenge to ‘Casteocracy’, the author sees a turn towards cultural authenticity in Modi’s India, though the comic must still…
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India After Gandhi: $1.99 Kindle Deal
A note that Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a $1.99 Kindle deal in the US, acknowledging its critics but judging the revised and updated book worth reading at some…
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This man makes me proud of being a Baha’i
The author shares the story of a Black Bahá’í man that moved him, says he learnt it late, and argues that racism within the Bahá’í community means Persian and white…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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