March 2021
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Monkey and the Indo-Europeans
Starting from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s claim that Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the monkey, the author argues their arguments better support an Indian homeland, and that the word may have entered Indo-European from…
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Review: Magic in Islam by Michael Mohammed Knight
In an old capsule review, the author calls Michael Knight’s Magic in Islam a hot mess worth reading: full of fascinating material on magic in Islamicate tradition, but wrapped in…
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Open Thread – 03/27/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 27 March 2021, noting the blog has been quiet and asking whether readers have forgotten the Brown Pundits Reddit.
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Browncast: Chris Iwanek, India-analyst from Poland
In a BP podcast, two hosts talk to Krzysztof Iwanek, who heads the Asia Research Center at the War Studies University in Warsaw and is writing a book on the…
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Book Review- Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha: Anatomy of Polarization
A review of Rahul Roushan’s memoir Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha, which traces his move from indifference to his Hindu identity to wholesale acceptance of it and a…
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Open Thread – 03/20/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Lots of “brown” chat on Clubhouse.
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Musings of a Shinto Rishi
Struck by an interview with Florian Wiltschko, an Austrian Shinto priest in Japan, the author sees parallels between Shinto’s nature-centred outlook and a Dharmic sensibility, and reflects on how both…
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Caste in America!?!?! Don’t believe the hype
Responding to a Bloomberg piece on caste in Silicon Valley, the author argues it is mostly about India and recycles familiar anecdotes, and that caste is not a pervasive American…
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Open Thread – 03/13/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 13 March 2021, covering a paid Substack piece and Clubhouse chat on the genetics of Italy, Bangladesh’s relative economic success, an upcoming Proto-Indo-European interview and the recovered…
