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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread, noting that a new hour-and-twenty-minute linguistics podcast with five participants has gone up on the patron page.
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The many ways of being Brown Diasporic
The author admits he cannot follow half of Zach’s posts because of their South Asian pop-culture and Hindi-Urdu references, and uses this to show that diasporic brown people differ widely,…
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The Advice of the Childfree
Defending his criticism of Bollywood men who leave wives for younger partners, the author argues rich and powerful men must be held to account, that their daughters bear the pain,…
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Is Bollywood “whitening” Indian beauty standards?
Prompted by a young actress said to look Spanish or Italian, the author asks whether Bollywood is whitening Indian beauty standards, argues India is in an ‘importing stage’, and criticises…
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The unconscious whiteness of Britain-
The author recounts a story of a Cambridge college bursar’s racist lighting remark that cost an Asian engineer a contract, and argues institutional racism, sexism and classism will keep Britain’s…
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Podcasts by Major Amin. India, Pakistan, Proxy Wars
Introduces Major Agha Humayun Amin’s podcasts, one covering his background in Afghanistan and his views that no actor there is truly non-state, that the Taliban are Pakistan’s proxy, and that…
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Self-respect starts at home, Mr Kohli..
Seeing a Virat Kohli advertisement, the author argues celebrities need taste to build Brownitude’s international reputation, then questions Shah Rukh Khan’s remark that hundreds of religions coexist in India, noting…
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2019 Easter Massacre in Sri Lanka
The author lists warning signs before the Sri Lanka Easter attacks, from vandalised Buddha statues to explosives found in January, and argues that infighting and reluctance to act against a…
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Indians are just as stupid as Americans
A short, irritated reply to a tweet accusing Razib Khan of hating white Christian saviours, saying he avoids the word ‘secular’ because of what Indians take it to mean.
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Book Review: Limited War in South Asia
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Kaushik Roy and Scott Gates’s Limited War in South Asia, faulting its inaccurate maps of Pakistani corps, its exaggeration of the Indian Army’s role in…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
