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Browncast: Chris Iwanek, India-analyst from Poland
In a BP podcast, two hosts talk to Krzysztof Iwanek, who heads the Asia Research Center at the War Studies University in Warsaw and is writing a book on the…
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Book Review- Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha: Anatomy of Polarization
A review of Rahul Roushan’s memoir Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha, which traces his move from indifference to his Hindu identity to wholesale acceptance of it and a…
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Open Thread – 03/20/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Lots of “brown” chat on Clubhouse.
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Musings of a Shinto Rishi
Struck by an interview with Florian Wiltschko, an Austrian Shinto priest in Japan, the author sees parallels between Shinto’s nature-centred outlook and a Dharmic sensibility, and reflects on how both…
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Caste in America!?!?! Don’t believe the hype
Responding to a Bloomberg piece on caste in Silicon Valley, the author argues it is mostly about India and recycles familiar anecdotes, and that caste is not a pervasive American…
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Open Thread – 03/13/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 13 March 2021, covering a paid Substack piece and Clubhouse chat on the genetics of Italy, Bangladesh’s relative economic success, an upcoming Proto-Indo-European interview and the recovered…
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Capsule Review: Mythos by Stephen Fry
A capsule review of Stephen Fry’s audiobook Mythos, praised as a humorous, learned and faithful retelling of Greek myths that makes their layered origin stories coherent, with the caveat that…
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Brigadier FB Ali; the Man Who Removed Yahya Khan
Hamid Hussain’s obituary of Brigadier F. B. Ali (1929-2021) recounts his career in the Pakistan Army and his roles in the December 1971 move against Yahya Khan and an alleged…
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Political correctness is “just politeness” (for your friends)
Reacting to Rutgers’ defence of academic freedom for Audrey Truschke amid clashes with Hindu Twitter, the author argues the American left does not extend politeness to Hindus, and that universities…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
