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All that matters is which way you are punching
Responding to a New Yorker passage on Modi, Razib Khan argues that some Hindu nationalists want a nation-state built on an ethnoreligious core, much like Pakistan’s original vision, and that…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 8 December 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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Browncast episode 75: Indian in Suomi
BrownCast episode 75: Razib talks to Sagar Dubey, who lived in eight countries across the Americas before settling in Finland, about being a cosmopolitan world-traveller, his impressions of India and…
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The reign of {{{Sundar Pichai}}}
Quotes a report on Sundar Pichai becoming chief executive of Alphabet, with a friend’s less flattering view that he is not especially bright or courageous and is compared unfavourably with…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 1 December 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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Why you are not as smart as you could be and why I am smarter than I should be
Replying to a reader who asks why non-Indian history is raised in discussions of India, the author argues no place’s history can be understood without others, blames parochialism, and says…
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Westernmost India
Razib Khan cites Isidorus of Charax’s Parthian Stations, which calls the Helmand region White India, to argue that Buddhism carried Indian cultural influence into the Iranian world’s eastern fringe, and…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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