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This Zach is an ass
The author objects to a tweet by Zach Goldberg that portrays his Indian girlfriend as confused by diversity training and wanting only Bollywood films, arguing that it plays on Orientalist…
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Forgetting the past
Answering the common Indian objection that Indo-Aryan migration is absent from their traditions, the author argues that many peoples, such as the Greeks and Norse, keep no memory of migrations…
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No Muslim actors please; we’re Hindu..
A short comment on a photo of a Hindi film delegation meeting Narendra Modi, in which no Muslim star appears, ending with a lament for Urdu.
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Are Haryana Jats the closest living descendents of our Vedic forefathers ?
In part one of a review of a paper on Northwest Indian groups, the author sets out its findings that the Ror have strong steppe affinity and may proxy for…
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Why was India richer than Iran or Afghanistan-
Replying to a Twitter thread on why India was richer than Iran or Afghanistan, the author suggests the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains fared better than Mesopotamia and the Nile because they…
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Brown Pundits – Episode 7, Sarah Haider, Islam, identity, and the “public life”
Episode 7 of the BP Podcast features Sarah Haider, executive director of Ex-Muslims of North America, in a conversation about Islam, identity and public life. The host, a friend of…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 8 January 2019, with the standard request to keep other posts on topic.
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MP Tulip Siddiq & her aunt Sheikh Hasina
Reacting to a Channel 4 report on MP Tulip Siddiq’s links to the Bangladeshi ruling party, the author calls it a hit-piece alongside his dislike of Labour’s candidate bargains. He…
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Toward a mature conservatism
Citing Narendra Modi’s remark that Ganesha shows ancient plastic surgery, the author argues that pseudoscience and pseudohistory on the Indian Right are a worrying sign of poor epistemological hygiene. He…
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Irano-Scythian Origins of the Pallavas
Zack shares articles on the claimed Persian or Parthian origins of the Pallavas, which he read while visiting Mahabalipuram, cautioning that one of them is jingoistic, and says a planned…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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