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The Koran; a very short introduction
An old review, first written for the Pakistani magazine Herald in 2002, of Michael Cook’s The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. The poster judges it witty and informative even for…
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Afghan Conundrum II
Hamid Hussain surveys Pakistan’s long involvement in Afghanistan after Donald Trump’s tweet that US troops would be home by Christmas, noting Imran Khan’s government has handed the Afghan file to…
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Open Thread, 11/14/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 14 November 2020: a Diwali remark, and a new podcast on the US election results with Josiah Neeley and Richard Hanania.
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“The Buddhist Age”
The author argues that 250 to 750 AD can be thought of as Asia’s ‘Buddhist Age’, and that around 700 Buddhism, though declining in the subcontinent and under threat in…
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Browncast – Saagar Enjeti: An Indian-American Right Populist
In this BrownCast episode Mukunda and Akshar talk to Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Rising on The Hill and host of The Realignment Podcast, about his political journey, the US election…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 11/7/2020
Open thread, 7 November 2020: a reminder of the subreddit, and a note that the blog was down for six hours because of a database problem at the host, now…
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Putting the Arnab storm in perspective
The author argues the optics and high-handedness of Arnab Goswami’s arrest deserve criticism, but that arbitrary arrests such as Sameer Thakkar’s over tweets are more troubling, and that Goswami’s arrest…
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Reducing Hindu nationalism to the Enemy
The author calls a Politico piece on how Hindu nationalism could shape the US election silly, arguing no one in America knows or cares about it, and asks why many…
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Open Thread – 10/31/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 31 October 2020: the poster started a subreddit that may make open threads redundant, and has posted podcasts on Patreon, including one by Richard Hanania sceptical of France’s…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
