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Genetic distances across the world
Razib Khan computes pairwise Fst between South Asian, European, East Asian and Iranian populations and runs TreeMix, posting two graphs and a spreadsheet of values without drawing a major conclusion.
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Open Thread – 10/14/2022 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 14 October 2022, in which Razib Khan says he is uploading his backlog of podcasts to YouTube and notes that the blog, over ten years old, began…
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The Indian Overton: Saffron Secularism
The Emissary argues that Indian and international commentary misreads the BJP’s rule, pointing to economic growth, minority attitudes and Narendra Modi’s popularity, and sees the party as the dead centre…
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The Dance of Indian Modernity and Tradition
The Emissary argues for a middle path between nostalgia for a golden age and contempt for the past, holding that Dharma is the idea that has sustained Indian identity, while…
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India as a global factory: A project seventy years in the making
The author argues that Apple’s plan to make the iPhone 14 in India reflects a seventy-year project, from a country struggling to feed itself in the 1950s to state promotion…
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The Die is Cast: the death of Indian Liberalism
Nachiketa explains how his politics have moved since 2019, a moderate liberal critic of the BJP who now blames Indian liberals’ stance on Article 370, the CAA protests and the…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
