July 2024
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Open Thread – 7/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Browncast: Major Amin on Current Events
Omar Ali talks with regular guest, military historian Major Agha Humayun Amin, but not about military history. They discuss the Trump assassination attempt, the war in Ukraine, Gaza, Pakistan and…
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Have the Ambanis jumped the shark?
X.T.M asks whether the Ambanis’ months-long wedding, with $250,000 watches for groomsmen, has gone too far, and wonders if such displays help explain the BJP’s weaker-than-expected election result, wishing the…
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A civilization born in blood : a relook at the final act of Parva
Revisiting S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Parva, Nachiketa reads its final act as a study of the futility of war, from Bhima finding the Hidimba forest burned to the Yadava fratricide,…
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Jewish Muslim Relations
In a series on Jewish-Muslim relations, Hamid Hussain compares prayer and pilgrimage in the two faiths, noting mutual acceptance of monotheism alongside rival claims about the authenticity of each other’s…
