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When you have a hammer everything is a nail
Quotes an essay arguing that two Indian-descent teenagers accused of a racist assault at a New Jersey football game were enacting American whiteness, which shows race as something people perform,…
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Review: The Anarchy, by WIlliam Dalrymple
The reviewer lists errors in the glossary of William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy, including its definitions of ‘alam, firangi, Id-ul-Azha, masnavi and Muharram, and argues that masnavi names a verse form…
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Browncast episode 71: Stand Up Comic Rajiv Satyal
BrownCast episode 71: Razib talks to Rajiv Satyal, an Indian-American comic who is becoming increasingly visible on the stand-up circuit, about his background and his thoughts on comedy, politics, identity,…
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The shadow of the crescent
Razib Khan argues that modern Indian and Hindu mentality, secularist or Hindutva, is shaped by a double colonial layer of Islamic and Western rule. He finds postcolonial theory unhelpful as…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 20 October 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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Review: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia (Pankaj Mishra)
A long, reworked chapter-by-chapter rant against Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of Empire. The reviewer argues the book is not about the intellectuals who remade Asia but about post-liberal virtue…
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Review: Arabs. A Three Thousand Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
A review of Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s Arabs, a three-thousand-year history. The reviewer praises its scope and its insistence that Arab identity, defined above all by the Arabic language, long predates Islam.…
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The Clearly Evident Out of India Migration from Ancient DNA
The author argues that Indian media have ignored what the new ancient DNA papers show about a migration of Harappans into eastern Iran and Central Asia, and disputes Tony Joseph’s…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 13 October 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
