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Modi 3 and the fruits of fiscal Tapasya
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s election-year budget broke from freebies, citing the 2019 farmer cash transfer and Congress’s welfare promises in Karnataka, and reads this as the government’s confidence…
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Modi’s fiscal masterclass
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s second term showed fiscal discipline through global turbulence without losing political capital, and explains why India has strong reasons to reduce deficits, from debt…
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Browncast: Indic Modernity
Omar Ali and Mukunda Raghavan talk to Vineet, who runs the Indic Explorer YouTube channel, about what Indic modernity is and what it is likely to become, in an episode…
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Is Brahmin a controversial word
X.T.M asks whether the word Brahmin is controversial and wonders why Hindus cannot reform caste while keeping its benefits, as an outsider who believes in equality.
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Brown Pundits on 2024 election in India
Omar, Mukunda, Maneesh, Gaurav and KJ chat freely about India’s coming election; they stick to the consensus that the NDA will not lose, one bets his shirt on a state,…
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Elamo-Dravidian and the Koraga
Razib Khan quotes the abstract of a study that finds a 4,400-year-old Proto-Dravidian ancestry component in the Koraga, adding that it is not definitive but shows the value of wider…
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A Conversation on Politics in Tamil Nadu
Maneesh Taneja and Omar Ali talk to K Jayaraman about Tamil Nadu politics, from the origin of the Dravidian movement and its rise as a political force to the decline…
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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