June 2023
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Ren Mukherjee on affirmation action’s end
A short note sharing an interview with Ren Mukherjee on the end of affirmative action, recorded before the ruling, and the second episode of a podcast on Muslims versus LGBTQIA+.
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Book Review: Grand Delusion; the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
Hamid Hussain reviews Steven Simon’s Grand Delusion, which argues that American policymakers persistently believed military force alone could deliver lasting change and security in the Middle East, and traces how…
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Podcast: A “Frank” conversation about modern Indian politics
A BrownCast in which the host and Akshar talk to ‘Frank’, an Indian financial professional interested in history and politics, about everything from Nehruvian India to Modinomics and Hindutva, and…
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People of lower castes have bad personalities
A quoted study abstract finding that caste disparities in hiring at elite multinationals recruiting from an elite Indian college arise mainly at the final personal interview, which screens on ‘cultural…
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Open Thread – 06/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
A Look at Brooklyn’s Little Bangladesh.
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More Sikhs in Canada than India proportionally
A one-line observation that Sikhs are 2.1% of Canada’s population against 1.7% of India’s, after heavy migration to Canada over the last decade.
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Book Review: Four Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre (AI Defense Applications)
Hamid Hussain reviews Paul Scharre’s Four Battlegrounds as a fascinating account of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in warfare, describing how AI aids intelligence analysis and autonomous systems and…
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Population structure in South Asian – Genomes Asian 1K paper
A note on a new South Asian medical cohort paper on founder effects and homozygosity, which the author says confirms a west-to-east cline among Bengalis regardless of religion, though it…
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History and Evolution of Malayalam Cinema
A podcast conversation on the history and evolution of Malayalam cinema, covering how it differs from Tamil and Telugu cinema, the influence of communism on its early years, and the…
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Modinomics: Why India is Rising
An essay arguing that India’s rise has largely been explained by outsiders rather than analysed, and that the Modi government deserves credit for it, set against a Nehruvian socialist inheritance…
