August 2020
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Why Hindutva Worries me: Annual Onam debates
In the first of a planned run of posts on his worries about Hindutva, Nachiketa calls the yearly Onam flame wars over whether the festival is Vamana Jayanti or a…
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 2)
In the second of three posts, the author proposes ‘liberal conservatism’ to protect India’s civilisational heritage within a liberal democracy, arguing that Fukuyama’s end of history failed while Huntington’s civilisational…
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Book Review: Our moon has blood clots
Nachiketa reviews Rahul Pandita’s memoir of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus after 1989, praising its small-incident portrayal of changing neighbours’ attitudes and its account of the killings, and calling it the…
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Open Thread – 08/29/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 29 August 2020. The opening note says moderation will be stricter and announces a podcast conversation with Matthew Yglesias on his book One Billion Americans, with reader…
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Why Did the Indian and Pakistani Armies fail in 1965?
A very long chapter from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s history of the Pakistan Army analysing why both armies failed in the 1965 war, posted whole by Omar Ali as a…
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The counterproductive (il)liberalism
Nachiketa argues that Indian liberal media weaken their case through polemic such as calling Yogi Adityanath ‘Ajay Bisht’, and that Bloomsbury’s de-platforming of the Delhi Riots 2020 book turned a…
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Why Turks ruled India for so long
Razib Khan argues that geography and economics, chiefly Turkic and Muslim access to steppe warhorses, rather than Hindu passivity or disunity, best explain the long Turkic ascendancy in the subcontinent…
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Browncast Episodes 121 & 122: Desi-Rae, heterodox Jamaican American, and Anthony, a black American in China
Two BrownCast episodes: Razib Khan talks to Desi-Rae, a Jamaican American with heterodox views on race in Jamaica and the US, relationships and the fallout from speaking out, and to…
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 1)
In the first of three posts, the author answers Slapstik’s ‘Indian woke wears saffron’, arguing that the Bhakti movement was no rupture from earlier Dharmic traditions, that Congress had indigenous-minded…
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Why Indian Americans are not the new Jews
Razib Khan argues the analogy between Indian Americans and American Jews is superficial, sketching the two Ashkenazi migrations, the German Jews and the far larger wave from the Russian Empire,…
