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How the BJP Became the Bahujan Janata Party
The author argues that the BJP, long dismissed as a Brahmin-Baniya party, now draws a mandate from Bahujans as well as its upper-caste base, breaking the habit of voting by…
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Browncast: Dr Seema Anand, author of “The arts of seduction”
BrownCast: Mukunda and guest host Shahada talk to Dr Seema Anand, a London-based mythologist who lectures on the Kama Sutra.
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Blasphemy and blasphemy laws in Pakistan
Reposting a 2015 piece revised in 2021, the author argues that blasphemy cases in Pakistan have reached a new level, with police now killing accused men in custody, and questions…
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Clarifications on my views about the Burqa
The author clarifies their view on the burqa after the response to an earlier post, setting out why gut dislike alone is no reason for a ban.
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Koneswaran, Tenavaram Temples and God Upulvan
Starting from a reader’s visit to two Sri Lankan temples, the author traces Sinhala place-names such as Gokkana and Devundara and the history of the god Upulvan, a Buddhist guardian…
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Open Thread – 4/17/2021
What’s going on brownz?
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Fringe Harbingers of Enlightenment – Literary Experiment of Ibn Tufayl
A new contributor introduces Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan, a twelfth-century philosophical tale of an isolated autodidact, as a forerunner of Robinson Crusoe and a showcase for the Andalusian polymath’s…
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To the victors go the glory!
Introducing his steppe series, the author argues the subcontinent was stamped by the steppe: Indo-Aryans (about 15 per cent of ancestry), possibly Iron Age pastoralists, and the Muslims, who had…
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Open Thread – 04/10/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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