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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…
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Indian futures
Responding to Noah Smith’s bullish piece on India, the author takes agglomeration as the economist’s main lesson, argues that huge nations scale in ways small ones cannot, and flags human…
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Soldier Sahibs-Review
A review, written for Herald magazine and reposted unedited, calls Charles Allen’s Soldier Sahibs old-fashioned and unapologetically imperialist but accurate and readable on Nicholson, Lumsden and Edwardes, while noting it…
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Episode 22 – The British East India Company
Episode 22 of the BrownCast: Shrikant, Gaurav and Omar talk to Maneesh about the beginning, consolidation and end of British East India Company rule in India, ending with the 1857…
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The once and future India
The author compiled total fertility rates by administrative division across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, noting that India is a big country with, for example, Uttar Pradesh near 3.1 and West…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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