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Podcast explores advances in gender equality in India
X.T.M recommends a podcast on grassroots progress on gender equality in rural Bihar, then reflects as a Bahá’í on how the faith might suit Dharmic backgrounds and how Christianity has…
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An Electoral Earthquake in Pakistan
Omar Ali reads Pakistan’s February 2024 election as a shock to the army, which he says engineered Imran Khan’s rise in 2018 and removal in 2021, and credits Khan with…
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An Election in Pakistan
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Random musings on the interim budget
Guest writer Saiarav sets out his takeaways from India’s interim budget: a stunningly non-populist budget in an election year, with almost nothing for voters, which he reads as Modi’s supreme…
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Indian Muslims and the partition vote
Contributor Yajnavalkya (@saiarav) uses 1946 election and franchise data to argue that the Muslim League’s mandate was not just the voice of a small electorate, and that roughly 40% of…
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Browncast: Election Time in Pakistan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh Taneja talk informally about Pakistan’s upcoming elections and the general situation there, ending with Imran Khan’s latest conviction for marrying before the…
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Outmarriage rates for US-born Indian and Pakistani Americans
From this post.
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Who were the Carvakas?
A short video by Jay Vardhan Singh on the Carvakas, shared with praise for the young historian’s work and a pointer to his earlier appearance on a BP podcast about…
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Hurry up! Don’t miss out! Quick!
The author asks whether Indians are losing something by hurrying everything, from children’s schooling and entrance exams to queue-jumping, instant payments and ten-minute food delivery, and wonders whether a slower,…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
