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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…
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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!
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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