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When Brownz don’t stand together; the Coloniser wins
After a World Cup without a South Asian finalist, the author argues that India’s wish to be ‘Western’ and its fixation on Pakistan hurt the subcontinent, and that peace needs…
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AOC’s brain has gone and done it now!
On the row over Saikat Chakrabarti wearing a Subhas Chandra Bose T-shirt, the author argues that Bose’s Axis alliance was mostly pragmatic, like Finland’s with Germany, and that Western critics…
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Browncast Episode 54: Sojourn in India as a international Parsi
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Iona Italia, a Parsi raised in Europe, about her experience of returning to the Indian subcontinent; she hosts the Two for Tea podcast, edits…
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The end of the European age
Using a chart of Europe’s share of world population falling from 28 per cent in 1913 to about 10 per cent now, the author argues that talk of colonisers and…
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Browncast Episode 53: Memories of partition: Amrik Chattha
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Dr Amrik Chattha, author of Safar: A Child’s Walk to Freedom During the Partition of India, about life in a Punjabi village before Partition…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 6 July 2019: a general thread for any topic.
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Pakistan’s Pseudo-Revolution Marches on..
The author argues that Pakistan’s army put Imran Khan in office in 2018 and that the middle class’s belief in revolution is mistaken, since GHQ wants to harden the existing…
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Tweet of the Day-
Quotes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tweet telling Donald Trump that history’s largest administration belonged to the Iranians under Cyrus the Great, with the poster’s quip that Cyrus is his ‘grandpappy’.
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Rahul Gandhi Resignation
Quotes Rahul Gandhi’s resignation tweet on serving the Congress Party, sarcastically calling it a powerful letter, and adds that the author feels uncharitable towards India and England after the World…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
