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Greater (South) India
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Tribal Woman in Coimbatore Who Is Standing Up to Isha Foundation
Excerpts from an article on a tribal woman in Coimbatore, Muthamma, who says an ashram used local tribal families’ knowledge of forest plants and then left them excluded, and who…
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Indian Muslims are more latitudinarian than Pakistani Muslims
The author uses the World Values Survey to compare whether believers in India and Pakistan think their religion is the only acceptable one, finding Indian Muslims more latitudinarian than Pakistani…
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How serious is the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India ?
Citing a scholar who finds continuity in BJP policy on minorities, the author argues Hindu-Muslim conflict is rather benign by the twentieth century’s standards, compared with Russia, China and Mexico,…
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Browncast Episode 31: Jalliawala Bagh Podcast
On Browncast Episode 31, marking a hundred years since Jallianwala Bagh, hosts and guests broadly agree that Britain should apologise for the massacre, then range across identity, the ‘Hindu rage’…
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Manifesto Musings
Opening a planned series on the 2019 election manifestos, the author compares the BJP’s leader-centred, ‘resolution’ style with the Congress’s focus on people and delivery, and asks whether caste, communal…
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Pakistan’s tourism industry
A short post about launching the ‘Brown CamCast’ to mark the Jallianwala Bagh centenary, with plans for podcasts on Bollywood’s evolution and the election; it does not match its title…
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Browncast Episode 30: Philippe Lemoine on philosophy, politics, French immigration & The European Union
On Browncast Episode 30, philosopher and data scientist Philippe Lemoine discusses his path from computer science to philosophy of science, his hard-headed analysis of migration into France, and his sanguine…
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Chutzpah- celebrating HM the Queen’s birthday in the Punjab on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh
Reacting to a British reception for the Queen’s birthday in Punjab on the eve of Jallianwala Bagh’s centenary, the author argues South Asians must demand an apology, a reckoning of…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread, noting that a new podcast has gone up on the patron page.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,924 comments
