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The 100th Brownpundits Browncast
The 100th BrownCast: Razib Khan and Mukunda Raghavan talk to Pushpita Prasad and Sudha Jagannathan of the Coalition of the Hindus of North America about the caste question in the…
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Obituary: Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam, 1938-2023
An obituary of Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam (1938-2023), the author’s father’s closest friend, recording his unrecorded part as a young artillery captain in the defence of Lahore in 1965, and…
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Ertugrul is badass
A short reaction to Diriliş: Ertuğrul: good for what it intends, a dramatic rendering of Ottoman origin myth despite a comic-book hero, and a question about what the Indian equivalent…
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Brigadier Malik Mohammed Aslam
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Open Thread – 07/13/2023 – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 13 July 2023: opens with a linked article headed ‘The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis’ on caste discrimination claims in the West.
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Talking points re: caste
As a placeholder, the author says he is often asked about caste in America, mostly by journalists writing about caste in tech, which he thinks largely manufactured from a few…
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Hinduism
A quoted extract on Vivek Ramaswamy presenting his Hindu faith to Christian voters, including the need to address the polytheism question, and his anti-wokeism pitch as a way to counter…
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
