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Brown Pundits Browncast episodes 128 and 129
Two BrownCast episodes: Jasper Gregory on Vietnam, from coronavirus to BLM to K-Pop, and Abhinav Prakash on the Hathras rape, how it relates to caste politics in Uttar Pradesh and…
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Playing with fire ?
After the Babri demolition conspiracy verdict acquitted all 32 accused, the author, rewatching a 2000 Advani interview, weighs three accounts of how the demolition happened and concludes that, if it…
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Population structure in West Bengal and Bangladesh
Razib Khan reads a Genomes Asia 100K preprint for its Birbhum samples, noting that West Bengal samples sit west of Bangladeshi ones, Bengali Brahmins look distinct and Kayasthas look generic.…
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The AJPlus exception! Fascism for thee, but not me
Razib Khan questions the fuss over AJ+ and its ‘woke’ journalists, noting its owner Al Jazeera is a tool of the Qatari government, and argues they practise guilt-by-association from a…
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Open Thread – 10/03/2020
Open thread of 3 October 2020, opening with a question about why India’s COVID-19 deaths and cases are plateauing, and whether recovery in major population centres explains it despite local…
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Some brief points on Gandhi
Nachiketa explains how his view of Gandhi changed from partial sympathy with Nathuram Godse’s arguments to near reversal, seeing Gandhi’s non-violence as pragmatic, his pacifism as rooted more in Jain…
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Rape Culture, Indian Edition
Omar Ali responds to excerpts on sexual violence against Dalit women in East Punjab, accepting that such cases occur across the subcontinent with police often another source of oppression, and…
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The practice of untouchability by district
Razib Khan shares a district map of untouchability practice, taken via Alice Evans from a paper on its continuing practice in India, noting that regional patterns outweigh education, income or…
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Afghan Conundrum
Hamid Hussain examines the September 2020 start of intra-Afghan talks in Qatar, arguing that the Taliban resist a ceasefire to keep their fighters mobilised, and that Pakistan and Iran have…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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