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The Belgian neutrality is over; India’s next steps on Kashmir
A collection of tweets and comments on the India-Pakistan crisis after the pilot’s capture, including Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Rahul Roushan, with the poster’s view that China is the only…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 17: India-Pakistan conflict, Hindu nationalism, Cosmopolitanism
The hosts talk to Amey, a third-culture Indo-British-American professional, about the India-Pakistan border clashes (about 35 per cent of the conversation), Hindu nationalism, Maratha nationalism, knitting and racism, and the…
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I now support quotas on (South) Asian Americans at elite universities
Starting from a Harvard student campaign against a law professor who represents Harvey Weinstein, the author argues that the presumption of innocence matters most when it is hardest, and links…
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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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India needs to learn how to deal with Zombistan.
Zach calls Pakistan a zombie nation animated by a virus he identifies with Islam, saying India must cure the virus rather than fight the zombie, and feels absolute separation may…
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The airstrikes
An extract on Indian airstrikes in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after the Pulwama attack, with the poster inviting ‘value-add thoughts’.
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Do people in India care about ‘racist’ knitters?
On the 2019 knitting-community row over a white knitter’s remarks about travelling to India, and why it says more about Americans than Indians.
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White Hepthalites?
Zach reacts to a parody tweet apologising for the Hephthalite invasion on behalf of white people, arguing that the West tends to absorb other peoples’ heritages, treating Hephthalites or Aryans…
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Shatranj Ke KhilaRi (The Chess Players)
A review of Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari, which the reviewer now finds a funny, beautifully directed period piece rather than a profound statement. He argues it is not a…
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Afghan Peace Process
Hamid Hussain assesses the Afghan peace process after the first direct United States and Taliban talks, drawing on regional travel and conversations with Pakistanis, Afghans, Americans and Indians. He frames…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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