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Open Thread – 12/3/2021 – Brown Pundits
Lots of Indian tech CEOs. This is just the world in 2021.
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Capsule Review: The Verge, by Patrick Wyman
Omar Ali’s capsule review of Patrick Wyman’s The Verge finds it a short, readable account of Europe from 1490 to 1530, arguing that printing, finance, professional soldiers and the Reformation…
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Capsule Review: The Jewish Brigade
Omar Ali reviews The Jewish Brigade, a fictional graphic novel built around a real British Army unit in post-war Europe. He finds the art and writing quite good but the…
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Indian CEOs in America are a knock on of India’s specific economic strengths
The author argues that the success of India-trained CEOs in the US reflects India’s economic strengths, not just ‘best and brightest’ or sheer population, citing the BSE’s roughly 10,000 per…
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The New Order
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BrownCast with Rahul Pandita on Kashmir, Delhi Riots, Maoism
Omar and Gaurav talk to journalist and author Rahul Pandita on topics from Kashmir to the Delhi riots and Maoism, drawing on his memoir of the Kashmiri Pandit expulsion. An…
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Who was Sandrocottus ?
The author argues there are no solid grounds for identifying the Greek accounts’ Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, an identification that anchors ancient Indian chronology, and that the evidence favours Chandragupta…
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Parva: An epic masterpiece
Nachiketa calls Parva the best retelling of the Mahabharata he has read: a slow build of first-person arcs towards the great war that he found unputdownable, with notable attention to…
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Open Thread – 11/19/2021 – Brown Pundits
Modi?
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Untitled, 19 November 2021
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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