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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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Afghan Peace Process; Postscript
Hamid Hussain posts an exchange with an old Afghan hand of Pakistan’s ISI on the Afghan peace process. The respondent doubts any party can control Afghanistan or that the Taliban…
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Against being an intellectual subaltern
Razib Khan points to a long essay on his other weblog attacking reductive postcolonialism in Indian history and communal divisions, written after a tweet, and quotes its opening about a…
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Arundhati Roy on Kashmir; Pakistan is simply another Bantustan
A quick note on Arundhati Roy’s piece arguing that Modi’s Balakot airstrike internationalised the Kashmir dispute, with an excerpt and the poster’s surprise that the Pulwama bomber was a Kashmiri.
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Complete Victory For Imran Khan
Zach hails Pakistan’s offer to return the captured Indian pilot as a complete victory for Imran Khan and a humiliation for India, claiming it dooms Modi, unites Pakistanis and revives…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 18: India and Pakistan; Confrontation in the Subcontinent
Razib and Omar talk to Major Amin and Dr Hamid Hussain about the India-Pakistan confrontation after the Pulwama attack and what comes next, covering its military and political aspects. A…
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A toxic cocktail of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness
The poster says he knows little about the India-Pakistan crisis but criticises a social-media commentator’s self-absorbed remarks, calling them a toxic mix of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness.
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Tensions and BP Readership
The poster says readership is running at about eight times the daily average, five times the previous record, and that the cause is unclear but it is a tense day.
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Why China needs Pakistan-
A tweet from The Economist on China’s one-child policy, with the poster’s one-line comment that Pakistan’s destiny, if it survives, is to be China’s Bihar.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
