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Open Thread – 10/02/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 2 October 2021. Razib Khan says his Substack post on caste is up, and that the podcast released three episodes in three days: interviews with Wahid Majrooh, Pashtana…
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Review: Hell! No Saints in Paradise
Omar Ali reviews A. K. Asif’s debut novel, a dystopian satire of Pakistan in 2050 under a Khalifa. He calls it smart and literate, not serious literature, aimed at aspects…
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Browncast – Shazia Ilmi BJP National spokesperson
Mukunda and Nachiketa talk to Shazia Ilmi, a BJP national spokesperson, about Indian politics, Muslims in politics and society, and more; the post is a short episode announcement and gives…
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Spoils of War; The Aircraft of the Afghan Air Force
Posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain argues that fears over the Taliban gaining Afghan Air Force aircraft are exaggerated: they fought a small-scale, hit-and-run insurgency, while the US built the…
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The Afghan National Army
In correspondence posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain asks whether the Afghan National Army can be resurrected and whether unemployed soldiers might join the war economy, tracing its history from…
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The Plagues of Amwas and Justinian: The 200 years long series of plagues and pestilence and the conquest of Muslims over Rome and Persia
A blog post by Gypsy Syed, reproduced by Omar Ali, on the two centuries of plagues from Justinian’s to Amwas, including early Muslims’ belief under Umar that the Day of…
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Open Thread – 09/17/2021
Open thread, 17 September 2021. Razib Khan says he will write a free Substack piece on caste as a reference, because the claim that the British invented caste is spreading.
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Hayagriva was a Sintashta!
Razib Khan quotes the abstract of an upcoming paper placing modern domestic horses’ origins in the Western Eurasian steppes, adding that the data show modern breeds are monophyletic and descend…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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