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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…
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
