February 2024
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Capsule Review: How to Love in Sanskrit
Omar Ali recommends a Kindle collection of short Sanskrit poems and prose about love and longing, with contemporary translations and originals in the footnotes, calling it fun and worth a…
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Do Pakistanis eat this much red meat?
Struck by a dinner menu with no vegetarian option, X.T.M asks whether Pakistanis eat this much red meat, quotes a comment tying carbohydrate-heavy menus to Pashtun and Afghan areas, and…
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Iranic-origin dynasties of the Christian Caucasus
X.T.M traces dynasties of Iranian origin in Armenia and Georgia, including the Orontids, Artaxiads and Armenian Arsacids, as evidence of how closely the Christian Caucasus was tied to Greater Iran,…
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Bengalis are all basically very similar (except for Brahmins)
Razib Khan reads a new genome study as showing West Bengalis and Bangladeshis are broadly similar, with more East Asian ancestry in Bangladeshis and more variance in West Bengal, probably…
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Hardliner Who Also Liked Going To The Movies
In a self-described personal opinion piece on L. K. Advani, the author traces his background and entry into the RSS, argues he drove the Ayodhya movement that shifted power from…
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Open Thread – 2/14/2024 – Brown Pundits
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Podcast explores advances in gender equality in India
X.T.M recommends a podcast on grassroots progress on gender equality in rural Bihar, then reflects as a Bahá’í on how the faith might suit Dharmic backgrounds and how Christianity has…
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An Electoral Earthquake in Pakistan
Omar Ali reads Pakistan’s February 2024 election as a shock to the army, which he says engineered Imran Khan’s rise in 2018 and removal in 2021, and credits Khan with…
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An Election in Pakistan
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Random musings on the interim budget
Guest writer Saiarav sets out his takeaways from India’s interim budget: a stunningly non-populist budget in an election year, with almost nothing for voters, which he reads as Modi’s supreme…
