Even the stats now confirm it: we’re back at our highest readership in our ~15 years.
22,453 monthly readers and rising. 100+ comments on most new posts.
No ads. No algorithm. No social media amplification. Just a small, steady core of thinkers, returners, and writers keeping the conversation alive. This isn’t mass media — it’s a deliberately narrow beam.
A place for:
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Tight but Broad Church curation
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Long-form thinking
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Commentary that draws blood when needed but never aims cheap
The current moment feels like a return, not just of older names, but of why BP was built in the first place: a public space for Brown(ish) minds to work through power, faith, identity, language, and sometimes just the week’s news on our own terms.
Related: Brown Pundits, big in India!
I think it becomes a power law, the more commentators there are, the more they fuel the silent read.
It’s like a mouse, if you see one presume there are 10-15 at least.
If you see a commentator, presume 10-20 silent readers..
It would be nice to hear from Gaurav Lele and Pandit Brown.
Very true.
I think many women are potentially turned off by the aggressive tone of the commentariat.
There was a period on this site where there was almost constant discussion of the male anatomy and whether Indians or Pakistanis were more gifted in that regard. Thankfully, we seem to have moved past that.
Have we? I think I’m scarred for life now after something I saw here. You brought back the trauma of that comment. Now we all need to remember it. 🙂
There used to be a female commenter who went by the name “Violet”. I wonder what happened to her.
It may be stereotypical, but forums with greater female presence tend to be less toxic.
Unrelated two posts
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/financial-report/2024/01-16-2025-FR-(Final).pdf
The Financial Report 2024 at http://www.fiscal.treasury.gov not checked by me (Barr)
the Treasury Department is required to submit an annual report to Congress detailing the government’s financial condition. Critically, the 1994 law compelling this report (a link mentioned above) mandates that it reflect “unfunded liabilities” — that is, commitments made without any dedicated assets or income streams to ensure they’ll be kept.
According to a barely-publicized Treasury report, the actual grand total of Uncle Sam’s obligations is more than $151 trillion.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/think-uncle-sam-owes-37-trillion-its-far-worse
The US wants India to open its agricultural and dairy markets, stop its massive import of discounted Russian oil, and rapidly diversify away from Russian military equipment. Complying with the first demand would be disastrous for the 46% of the Indian workforce employed in these industries, however, while the second would risk decelerating its economic growth and the third would make its security dependent on the US. The end result would therefore derail India’s rise as a Great Power and turn it into a US vassal.
In brief, India’s Russian-assisted rise as a Great Power hastens the coming of tri–multipolarity that’ll in turn help midwife complex multipolarity, which would greatly reduce the likelihood of ever restoring US-led unipolarity or the short-lived period of informal Sino-US bi-multipolarity
Trump Is Hellbent on Derailing India’s Rise as a Great Power
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/trump-is-hellbent-on-derailing-indias-rise-as-a-great-power.html