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Open Thread – 05/08/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 8 May 2021, announcing a new BrownCast on the 1971 genocide, a paid Substack steppe series and an Unherd review of The Horde, and spotlighting The Emissary…
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West Bengal, TMC wins!!!
Quoting a report that Modi’s BJP fell well short in the West Bengal election while Mamata Banerjee’s TMC won, the author asks whether the TMC has an ideology and whether…
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Capsule Review: The Tankies by Ennis and Ezquerra
A capsule review of The Tankies, three linked war comics by Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra following a British tank crew from Normandy to Korea; the reviewer praises the drawing,…
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Open Thread – 04/30/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 30 April 2021, pointing readers to a free, ‘brown-related’ piece on the author’s Substack.
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Browncast: Sri Thiruvadanthai on the Indian Economy etc
In a BP podcast, three hosts talk to Sri Thiruvadanthai, known as @teasri on Twitter, a finance and economics commentator described as very erudite, about the Indian economy, reforms, China…
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Multiple hearths of agriculture in ancient South Asia
Endorsing Patrick Wyman’s account of South Asian prehistory, though with low confidence, the author thinks the ancestors of later South Asians lived between the Indus and the Zagros, adopting Fertile…
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Browncast: Gaurav Returns to Give An Update on Indian Covid & Marathi Politics
In a BP podcast, Akshar talks to Gaurav, a contributor with an eclectic range of positions across the Indian political spectrum, about the coronavirus’s impact in India, societal changes and…
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Open Thread – 4/24/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 24 April 2021, in which the author says his piece on India drew hostile and incoherent reactions from both the Left and the far Right.
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Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan; the dark side chronicles
Reposting an old piece, Asif Javed argues that the legend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has outrun the record, and sets out his ‘dark side’, including intolerance of rival power centres…
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Browncast: Frank: a well informed Indian talks about India
In a BP podcast, the hosts talk with ‘Frank’, an anonymous guest with a business and finance background, whom they call well informed, about Indian politics, recent history and his…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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