December 2021
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On the Hindu contradiction of intents
Razib Khan calls calls for ghar wapsi, the return of non-Hindus to Hinduism, ‘kind of a joke’: he argues Hinduism is too community-oriented to absorb many converts, so reconversion is…
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Punjabi Short Story by Nadir Ali
Laid up with Covid, Omar Ali translates ‘Grapes’, a Punjabi short story by his father Colonel Nadir Ali, who wrote on Punjabi literature and culture for forty years. He notes…
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Open Thread – Renewal of Covid Restrictions in India
Open thread on renewed Covid restrictions in India. Nachiketa offers an amateur view that Omicron’s upper-respiratory tilt may make it milder and could end the pandemic cheaply, and calls night…
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Christian conversions in rural India
Razib Khan quotes a New York Times report on mob attacks and conversion-law arrests of Christians in India, reads it sceptically as a Cow Belt, Dalit-convert phenomenon, notes Hindus are…
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I for one welcome our new Brown overlords!
Razib Khan says Amy Wax describes a real overrepresentation of Indians in woke activism but speaks as a Boomer working with black-white racial categories. He defends her intelligence while finding…
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Browncast: Introducing History of India series
Introducing the History of India series, which promises unconventional yet authoritative voices and a view free of ideological baggage. In episode one Maneesh Taneja talks with Omar Ali, Shrikanth Krishnamachary…
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A new way to say generic “Brown People”
Razib Khan notes the new acronym MASA (Muslim, Arab and South Asian), observing that it spans Norwegian converts to Islam, Assyrian Christians and Bhutanese Buddhists, and that South Asians already…
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Is There a Method to Erdogan’s Madness?
Pakistani economist DMKM asks why Erdoğan keeps interest rates low while the lira has roughly halved against the dollar in a year. After a BBC article failed to answer, his…
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Major Amin on Pan-Islamism and Afghanistan, etc
Posting an old 2001 letter by Major Amin, who argues the Afghan analogy does not fit Chechnya and questions Islamic solidarity over the Kurds and 1971, with a 2012 excerpt…
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India that is Bharat — The Good, the Bad and the Overstated
Nachiketa gives a detailed review of J. Sai Deepak’s India That Is Bharat, finding its research and sourcing sound and its main contribution the claim that ‘coloniality’ obstructs Bharatiya potential,…
