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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…
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine, part 1
Omar Ali, Amey and Conrad talk to Karol Karpinski about the Ukraine crisis from an Eastern European perspective, as a counterpoint to the earlier Major Amin recording that presented a…
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Posing as a South Asia expert: Brahminical patriarchy edition
Nachiketa writes in the voice of a self-styled ‘South Asia expert’, in what appears to be satire in research-article form, tracing Bangladesh’s divergence on women’s empowerment to ‘Brahminical patriarchy’ and…
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History of India Series: Episode 5 – The Magadh Era: From Bimbisara to Ashoka
History of India series, episode 5: Mukunda Raghavan and Gaurav Lele on the Magadha era, from Bimbisara to Ashoka, with Alexander and Chanakya.
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 2/26/2022
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Browncast: Major Amin on the Ukraine Crisis
On the day Russia launched its military operation against Ukraine, Omar Ali talks with Major Amin, who has long ties to Afghanistan and Russia, about the geopolitical rivalry between the…
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Browncast: Major Amin on the Ukraine Crisis
On the day Russia launched its operation, Omar talks to military historian Major Amin, whose frank, pro-Russian framing the host says probably reflects Putin’s or Russian nationalists’ own thinking. Listeners…
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Browncast: Salman Rashid, Travel and History Writer
Omar Ali and Maneesh Taneja talk with Pakistani travel writer and history enthusiast Salman Rashid, who runs a popular YouTube channel, about Partition, Pakistan, history and whatever else comes up…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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