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Azad(?) Kashmir
A brief remark that a travel vlogger checking in at ‘Azad Kashmir’ used politically loaded language, with an aside on PewDiePie and an embedded tweet by Sadanand Dhume mocking a…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
A standing open thread: readers are asked to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
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Many types of India prepare to Vote
The poster excerpts a reader comment as a tribute to the many different Indias beyond Modi’s Bharat, arguing that caste has been channelled into democracy and that family networks keep…
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Ilish bhaja
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Misunderstanding Ta’arof
Zach muses on ta’arof, Persian courtesy, and a Jewish American travel vlogger praising Pakistan, then restates his position that he dislikes Islam while loving Pakistanis and Muslims, distinguishing the two.…
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PewDiePie is Coloniser Trash
Zach attacks PewDiePie’s remarks after losing the YouTube subscriber race to T-Series as colonial condescension towards Indians, objecting to calling Bangladesh Indian and to jokes about open defecation. The tone…
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How Islamicate culture will die?
Zach argues that Islamicate culture is squeezed in India for being Islamic and in Pakistan for not being Islamic enough, claiming that Islam is suffocating the Islamicate cultural complex there.…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 25: Christoph, center-left edgelord on social justice, Islam, and cosmopolitanism
The host talks to Christoph, an early contributor to this weblog now known on Twitter for punching both Right and Left from the centre, about his mixed-race identity and cosmopolitan…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
