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My letter to the Cambridge Union
The author reproduces his letter of complaint to the Cambridge Union after being turned away from a Pakistan Society event for not being a student, describing it as humiliating, as…
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The British have no contrition for what they did to India-
Argues that Britain writes about the Raj without contrition and that the whitewashing of empire has fed resentment of the EU, calling Brexit the imperial reckoning Britain avoided.
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To understand Islam one must understand religion
Writing for new readers, especially ‘internet Hindus’ and philosophical atheists, the author argues that understanding Islam first requires understanding religion as a natural phenomenon, drawing on cognitive anthropology, and criticises…
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Gene Expression status update
The author says the Gene Expression blog is offline after maxing out its shared-hosting CPU, possibly because of a DoS attack, and will return with its archives when he has…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
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Browncast Ep 46: the Professor Devji Podcast
A BrownCast episode with Professor Devji on how the BJP mobilises votes, the coded language of ‘appeasement’, Hindutva’s aim of removing state control of Hinduism, how it frames caste politics,…
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Live Blogging: Documenting post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka
Live notes on Dr Farzana Haniffa’s lecture on post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka, covering the 1958 and 1983 anti-Tamil violence, Muslim concentration in the East, anti-Halal campaigns and the…
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Browncast Ep 45: Jordan Anaya on “data thuggery”
A BrownCast episode with Jordan Anaya, a self-styled ‘data thug’ who helped end Brian Wansink’s career, on scientific methodology and open science, described by the host as a brutal realist…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
