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Re-finding lost love of Cricket
A personal essay on how the author’s relationship with cricket changed after India’s 2011 World Cup win: from childhood memories of the 1996 tournament and following the game in Marathi…
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Capsule Review: The Ultimate Goal by Vikram Sood
A capsule review of The Ultimate Goal by Vikram Sood, a former R&AW chief, on how great powers build national narratives and why India should do likewise. The reviewer finds…
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Open Thread – 01/29/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 29 January 2021: the poster’s two-part Substack essays on Indian history, his Substack pricing for Indian readers, a question about the farm protests, and a recommendation of An…
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Hinduism is not false consciousness , it is “Planet X”
Responding to a Caravan piece claiming upper castes invented a Hindu majority, the author argues Hindu identity is not a recent invention or false consciousness: like an unseen ‘Planet X’,…
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Why Scythians, Sakas, and Kushanas, are NOT the source of “steppe” ancestry
Quoting a genetics paper on South and Central Asia, the author argues that Scythians, Sakas, Kushans and Huns cannot be the main source of South Asia’s steppe ancestry, because present-day…
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The (Original Brown) Pundits: Spies, Explorers and Scholars during the Great Game
Prompted by India-China frontier friction, the author revisits the nineteenth-century Great Game between British India and Russia and its spies and explorers, arguing that the Indian ‘Pundits’ who surveyed these…
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Open Thread – 01/23/2020
Open thread, 23 January 2021: the poster says his Stark Truth About the Aryans piece is doing well, and updates that part 2 is out.
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Browncast: Akshay Alladi, Indian Conservative
In this BrownCast episode the hosts talk to Akshay Alladi, an Indian conservative, about what it means to be an Indian conservative and about Indian cultural and political issues in…
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Browncast: Tim Mackintosh Smith, author of “Arabs”
In this two-part BrownCast episode the hosts talk to Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author of Arabs: a three thousand year history of peoples, tribes and empires, about his book, Arab history and…
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Stark Truth About Aryans: a story of India (part 1)
Razib Khan posts the opening of his paid Substack essay Stark Truth About Aryans, which sets out how recent genetic research explains South Asia’s diversity and asks what findings of…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
