June Readership Numbers

In June 2026 Brown Pundits drew just under fifty-four thousand visits (nearly 2,000 visits a day), down about twelve per cent on the month.

The shape of that traffic is more interesting than its size:

  • Five readers in six arrive on a phone.
  • Close to six in ten come directly, by bookmark, habit or feed: they already meant to be here.
  • Organic search brings a further third.
  • Social accounts for one visit in fifteen, all of it from Quora.
  • Four in a thousand now arrive through the AI answer engines.
  • The typical visit lasts a minute and a half and covers just over two pages.

Our most-visited page in search is our notice on Dhurandhar, which sits on the first page of Google for a term several thousand people look up every month. As well as a 2015 piece on Patricia Crone, an old conversation with Edward Luttwak, a note on Rajaji.

Our geographic breakdown is:

🇨🇦 CANADA ████████████████████████ 42%

🇮🇳 INDIA █████████████ 25%

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES ██████ 11%

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA ████ 8%

🇬🇧 BRITAIN ███ 6%

🌍 OTHER ██ 8%

The numbers say that reader is loyal, numerous, and scattered across continents, which is no small thing to have built.

Reading Dawn in Delhi.

Notes on the closing talks of “Divergent Voices of South Asia: Rethinking Partition, Reimagining Peace”; Mela Nordic, Filmcentrum Riks, Stockholm, 4 July 2026. Second of two parts.


Part I of this essay took Anuradha Bhasin’s blueprint, cross-border journalism, a shared archive, the arts as empathy machines, and held it against the graveyard of prior attempts: Aman ki Asha, decapitated after 2014; Himal Southasian, strangled in 2016 by withheld paperwork. The open question it ended on was survivability; who funds the structure, and where does it live, such that no single ministry can starve it?

The woman who followed Bhasin to the podium is, conveniently, the field test. Beena Sarwar, Boston-based journalist, documentary filmmaker, journalism teacher, helped run Aman ki Asha from the Jang side through its best years; the campaign’s achievements are credited in large part to her stewardship. She watched it stall. And in March 2021 she co-founded Sapan, the Southasia Peace Action Network, explicitly on the lessons learned, followed in August 2021 by Sapan News, a syndicated features service. The arc from mega-campaign backed by two media conglomerates to volunteer-driven network is not a decline; it is an adaptation to the kill mechanism. Her talk, “Think like a Journalist, Build Peace,” was the day’s answer to its own hardest question.

The minimum common agenda

Continue reading Reading Dawn in Delhi.

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