May 2023
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Judicial Jitters in Pakistan, continued..
Hamid Hussain, in the first of three pieces, argues that the rift among Pakistan’s senior judges, split seven to seven, stems from the political crisis and the Supreme Court’s own…
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On Centenarian Kissinger
A self-described personal opinion on the soon-to-be centenarian Henry Kissinger, weighing his realist view of American foreign policy against critics citing Bangladesh and Chile, and the sympathy some now show…
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Book Review: लोक माझे सांगाती
A reviewer praises Sharad Pawar’s autobiography for his development vision and his stand on the Namantar controversy and women’s rights, but faults its lack of explanation of his miscalculations and…
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Midjourney v 5 and various Indian ethnicities
A short post about Midjourney v5 images of various Indian ethnicities, inviting readers to guess the ethnicity from the image names.
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Open Thread – 05/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 14 May 2023: the host announces he has finished his Iran sequence, four Substack pieces from pre-Persian Iran and Zoroastrianism to the end of the Persian Empire and…
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Major Amin on the current crisis, May 2023
A short BrownCast chat with Major Agha Humayun Amin, well known to the podcast’s listeners, on what is going on in the May 2023 crisis, in which the host mentions…
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Pakistan Crisis: The Arrest of Imran Khan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh discuss the arrest of Imran Khan, giving background to the crisis, what is happening now and what to expect, with links to…
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A Sojourn to Swades
A diaspora Hindu recounts his visits to India, from early shame at the filth around temples and a sense that India was hopeless, to hope sparked by Modi’s politics and…
