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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…
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Blasphemy in Pakistan; NOT a Colonial Era Problem
Omar Ali reposts his overview of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to rebut the claim that they are a colonial legacy, arguing that the 1860 Indian Penal Code provision was mild and…
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Browncast: India Elections 2024; Ashvamedha Interrupted
Omar Ali and several Brown Pundits discuss the 2024 Indian elections in detail, including the BJP’s setbacks, and plan follow-up episodes on narrower issues such as the future of Hindu…
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Anglosphere Media’s India and Modi Problem Part 1: An Introduction
Guest writer Nonsensical Nemo argues that Anglosphere press coverage of India is marked by mendacity or ignorance, to the point that a reader would think India a genocidal hellhole. This…
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Open Thread – 6/1/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Brown Pundits Podcast 100: The origin of Indo-Europeans and Indians
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Crafty Designs
Starting from the Eameses’ 1958 India Report, which led to the National Institute of Design, the author profiles designer Poonam Bir Kasturi and Industree, and her later critique that Indian…
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Rajaji: Our forgotten hero
Reposting a 2018 piece, the author argues that C. Rajagopalachari, Rajaji, is perhaps the most forgotten of India’s founding leaders, and that his free-market ideas and Swatantra Party remain relevant…
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From Udaipur to Okinawa riding on orange peel
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on Narayan Lal Gurjar, a young Rajasthan innovator whose Okinawa-based startup makes superabsorbent polymers from orange and banana peel to help farmers in arid…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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