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The Parsis of Bombay
Prompted by Michael Axworthy’s Iran: Empire of the Mind, the author reposts a decade-old personal account of the Parsis of Mumbai, descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia for Gujarat after…
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Open Thread – 2/20/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Major Amin’s Summing up of the 3 Major Indo-Pak Wars
Major Amin, in an extract from his history of the Pakistan army, sums up the three Indo-Pak wars, arguing that Gilgit was won in 1947 by British and Gilgit Scouts…
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Looking back at COVID-19
A pathology trainee in Texas, writing on policy rather than clinical medicine, looks back at the Covid-19 response, drawing on two New Yorker pieces and recalling early complacency about outbreaks…
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Capsule Review: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
A capsule review of Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. The reviewer admires the writing but finds the semi-autobiographical narrator stuck in ‘inside the bubble wokeness’, thinks its appeal is narrow beyond…
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Clash of two Jats in the Indian army
Hamid Hussain says the reported clash between two senior Indian Army generals was a personality dispute of little significance, but uses it to trace the officers’ family backgrounds and military…
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Some notes on the accession of Junagadh vs. Kashmir
Why the usual Pakistani comparison between the accessions of Junagadh and Kashmir is less sound than it looks.
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Open Thread – 2/13/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 13 February 2021: the poster mentions he will host a Clubhouse session on Indian genetics and history within hours.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
