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Open Thread – 09/05/2020
What’s going on? Armin Navabi has angered both Muslims and Hindus on Twitter recently.
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Ancient Pakistanis were Hindu
Razib Khan reads a preprint on British Pakistanis as showing jati-like endogamy beginning 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, plus a later wave from cousin marriage, and argues this rejects the…
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Malvani and other Konkani seafoods – the potential loss of cuisines ?
Nachiketa worries that the popularity of Malvani seafood cuisine is crowding out other Konkan coastal cooking, such as Saraswat and Ratnagiri styles, which survive mostly in family kitchens as market…
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Moving out of India: The bigger picture
The author, who moved to the US two decades ago, offers young Indians a big-picture view of emigrating now that India’s growth has narrowed the material gap, weighing career and…
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Covid Lockdown. Some Questions
Omar Ali questions lockdown strategy by comparing responses: Pakistan’s brief, ineffective lockdown followed by a surprising slowdown in cases, India’s stricter, longer one with rising numbers, and the US’s mixed…
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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