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why Afghanistan & Pakistan must unite under a Constitutional monarchy
The author proposes that Pakistan resolve its identity dilemma through a Persian-speaking, Sunni constitutional monarchy united with Afghanistan, modelled on England and Scotland’s Union of the Crowns, arguing it is…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 20 July 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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We have hit peak podcast!
Prompted by a New York Times piece asking whether podcasting has peaked, the author recalls the early blogosphere, notes his own podcasting since 2016, and points to the Browncast’s range…
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Who brought the Zebu in the Near East ?
Discussing a Science paper on 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle genomes, the author says it confirms widespread zebu admixture from the Indus Valley from about 2000 BCE, likely male-driven and…
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Moon Landing
A short personal recollection that the family bought its first television in 1969, a few months before the moon landing, and so watched it live, though not just for that…
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Remembering Peterloo and Jallianwala
After a London event on the Peterloo Massacre, the author notes how the Rowlatt Act behind Jallianwala Bagh echoes Britain’s Six Acts that suppressed reform meetings after Peterloo, and links…
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A Struggle for True Liberation
The author argues that India freed from British rule in 1947 soon fell back into hierarchy and narrowing ideas of Indianness that broke its pluralism, and links a longer ‘Dharmic…
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Trump Finds Hafiz Saeed..
The author argues that Pakistan’s latest arrest of Hafiz Saeed on terror-financing charges is no ‘finding’ and may not last, noting the charges are unrelated to the Mumbai attacks and…
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Episode 57: Indian Politics Podcast
A Brown Pundits podcast episode with the usual panel on Indian politics, centred on Mahua Moitra, whom the poster calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reimagined as Lady Durga, while noting that panellists…
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Browncast Episode 56: Urbane Cowboys in the conservative wars
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Josiah Neeley and Doug McCoullough, hosts of the centre-right Urbane Cowboys podcast, about the conflicts within modern conservatism and how the guests, who hold…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,924 comments
