March 2022
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Imran Khan Phenomenon; My Prediction in 2011
Omar Ali reposts his 2011 profile of Imran Khan, written for 3 Quarks Daily, and says it was not far wrong. It describes Khan’s early struggle to turn cricketing fame…
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Gujurati genetics
Razib Khan shares quick observations from sample data on Gujarati groups, including Bohra, Brahmin, Lohana, Patel, Vania and Solanki samples, and where each sits on the north-to-south ancestry gradient.
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Browncast: Is Imran Khan on the Way Out?
Omar Ali talks with Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, and why and how the military may have abandoned Imran Khan, exposing him to a…
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Episode 7: South of India from 200 BC to 500 AD
Maneesh talks with Jay and Shrikanth in the History of India series, which crosses the Vindhyas into the Deccan, about South India from 200 BC to 500 AD, with long…
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Brown Growl
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Kashmir Files : Short Review
Nachiketa gives a hurried short review of The Kashmir Files, finding it more effective than he expected: the loud direction suits its aim, the violence is not overdone and the…
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The southwestern groups in the Indian subcontinent are enriched for “Middle Eastern” ancestry
Razib Khan quotes a study of 213 people from India’s south-west coast groups showing enrichment for Middle Eastern ancestry, and offers two explanations: an early Iranian-related movement after the Indus…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 3/18/2022
Open thread, 18 March 2022. It opens with a reader’s comment asking what Razib and Omar think of Holi, and the commenter’s note that they have never been to India.
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Episode 6: North India from 200 BC to 200 AD
Shrikanth and Maneesh are joined by Jay Vardhan Singh to continue the History of India series with North India from 200 BC to 200 AD, taking in Bactrians in central…
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Friendship in a time of evil
Razib Khan asks why the West focuses on Ukraine rather than Yemen, where he says nearly 100,000 children have starved, and argues that claims of a unique humanitarian crisis are…
