July 2021
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Antiblackness and British South Asians – some cultures are to be judged, but others are not
Responding to a first-person piece on anti-blackness in a Bengali family, the author accepts the prejudice is real but argues the family’s worries about single parenthood had substance, citing higher…
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Open Thread – 07/16/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 16 July 2021, noting that Akshar interviewed an Afghan official on the latest BP podcast and that the author appeared on Kushal Mehra’s show.
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Disinformation Feudalism
Comparing today’s America with the medieval Church’s monopoly over morality and information, the author argues that digital-age ideological power resembles a feudal order, and asks what the ‘resistance’ resists when…
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Hindutvavadis are not Bhakts
Using the Marathi devotional tale of Gora Kumbhar, an atheist author criticises the core idea of Bhakti, comparing the trance of devotion to drug intoxication, with a title that distinguishes…
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Open Thread – 07/10/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 10 July 2021, opening with the claim that Bangladesh must recognise the Adibashis’ right to self-determination to prevent their extinction.
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Browncast: An Ex-Muslim Bangladeshi convert to Buddhism speaks
In a BP podcast, the host talks to ‘Alex’, a Bangladeshi freethinker who went from Islam to Buddhism, about Bangladesh’s economic and social situation and the oppression of tribal people…
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I’m on Urban Chatterati again!
The author notes another appearance on Urban Chatterati and quotes a commenter’s remark that he is trying hard to keep his ‘woke Islamism’ in check.
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Open Thread – 07/03/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 3 July 2021, remarking that many comments on the Pew India survey are poor, and that the new book Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization looks…
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Pew Survey on India (religion, etc.)
The author lists impressions of the Pew survey on religion in India: Hindi’s dominance in the Gangetic plain, doubts over reported mass conversion in the South, strong opposition to inter-caste…
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The ancient Indo-Iranians
Here’s a podcast on the Indo-Iranians from Patrick Wyman.
