March 2024
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Sacred Texts and Jewish-Muslim Relations
In a series on Jewish-Muslim relations, Hamid Hussain compares the Tanakh and the Quran, which each faith holds as revelation, noting shared themes and narratives alongside real differences that interfaith…
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Open Thread – 3/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
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Reinforcing Caste Boundaries in Everyday Social Interactions
X.T.M cites a thesis on how upper-class Bania women help uphold caste boundaries in daily life, notes a statistic on Bania and Brahmin dominance of corporate boards, and contrasts Indian…
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Namma EN
A personal recollection of buying a white Maruti Zen on 19 to 21 September 2002, with a friend arranging the loan and delivery in two days, and how the car…
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The Ambani Wedding & the Modern Face of India
X.T.M wonders whether Hindu culture, after centuries of conquest, finds security in displays of wealth, contrasting this with Persianate restraint, and suggests the Ambanis could instead fund India’s STEM legacy…
