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A Dalit writes on Oppresive Hindi
An extract from an essay on Hindi, quoting historian Sumit Sarkar that literary Hindi was bound up with Hindu-revivalist movements, and arguing that it carried Brahminical and communal impulses from…
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Comment of the Day:
A reader comment promoted to a post: it likens Dalits to Black Americans in the segregated South, and argues that Indian nationalism prizes territory over people while Pakistan is rooted…
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Would a Dalit Jinnah have gotten Dalitstan?
Asks whether Jinnah was simply the right man who happened to be Muslim, or whether the community would always have produced a saviour, and adds a reader comment likening Dalits…
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2 Hindus and grandmother of Hindus are the face of the Modern Left
Noting two Hindu-heritage candidates in the Democratic presidential field, the author asks what a Hindu is, favours a maximalist definition, and argues that upper castes should not monopolise what Hindu…
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Why I stand with Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian
The author explains why he admires Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian as smart, successful women with global reach, argues women have long advanced through looks and family connection, and takes…
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Brown Pundits Browncast episode 52: Sahil Handa, National Review intern and cosmopolitan conservative
A BrownCast episode on cosmopolitan conservatism with Sahil Handa, a National Review writer and Harvard student raised north of London, whose father is a Punjabi from Kenya and whose mother…
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Coloniser boasts about his skin colour privilege
The author calls a white expatriate’s poem about her skin-colour privilege in China classic virtue signalling, arguing that a privileged person should let the less privileged speak, and that the…
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Why it is very sad that racism arose in the US but not India-
The author argues caste is best seen as an institution that ring-fenced ancestry, so that low AASI rather than high ANI marks higher rank, and speculates on how class structure…
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Why I hate the term Brown
After watching Daughters of Destiny, the author argues ‘Brown’ is an offensive catch-all because it hides differences of shade and caste privilege, urging Dalit South Asians to claim ‘black’ so…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
