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An Adda with Abhinav Prakash
The author says he was the interviewee for once, in a casual chat with Abhinav Prakash of Urban Chatterati about India, Pakistan, Hindutva and related topics.
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Open Thread – 05/29/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 29 May 2021, noting the author’s new Substack piece on Romani genetics and history, a 6,000-word essay split in two parts.
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What the internet is today
The author warns anonymous trolls that a paid search could identify them, says he could make one ‘famous’ with his large following, and says he may soon ‘make examples’ of…
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They forgot who they were?
The author notes that linguistic and genetic evidence puts the Romani’s departure from the subcontinent around 1000 AD, with roughly 30 per cent South Asian ancestry, and finds it curious…
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How much steppe is there in Pakistan?
Answering a claim that Pakistanis carry much steppe maternal ancestry, the author cites a mitogenome study finding about 8.4 per cent steppe mtDNA among northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, and what…
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Open Thread – 05/22/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 22 May 2021, noting that Clubhouse is now open on Android and inviting readers to follow the Brown Pundits club.
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Lakshmi
Reading about the Corded Ware culture for his steppe series, the author explains that its mature phase is about 70 per cent Yamnaya, with farmer ancestry coming through women, and…
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Open Thread – 05/15/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 15 May 2021, opening with Covid-19 in India and the Middle East conflict, with a remark that there is too much news.
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BAPS!
Quoting a report on a lawsuit alleging that a Hindu sect used low-caste men lured from India as forced labour at its New Jersey temple, the author notes that ‘caste’…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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