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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Sunday, 11 October 2026Since December 2010 · 4,160 posts · 93,440 comments
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  • Open Thread: Navarātri and Durgā Pūjā

    Navarātri, nine nights of the Goddess, and Durgā Pūjā in Bengal, opening the month of Āśvina. A note from the back end. Since the new look went up, I have been wrestling with the machinery behind the site: Speed for writers. Pages are fast for readers, who get a saved copy, but slow for anyone logged in, and some writers have hit 502 errors while posting. Continue reading →

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    Today is Gandhi Jayanti, 157 years since Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar. This is the Open Thread for it: talk about Gandhi, or about anything else. Open Threads now follow the festivals Kabir suggested a new thread every 100 comments.

    BP Admin Team · opened by X.T.M2 Oct96 comments

  • A new look for Brown Pundits

    I spent last night unclogging nearly 16 years of Brown Pundits. First, I made a full backup of the site. Every post (about 3.4 million words, the length of 35–40 medium-sized books) and all 93,281 comments now sit safely off the server.

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  • A Pakistani Hindu is not content but is Content

    A Muslim artist in Karachi painted a Ganesh idol this month at the Ganesh Math Mandir, and Amar Parkash put it online. The clip went round the world before Ganesh Chaturthi. P's Kitchen, describes itself as "Pakistani Hindu Food" with Fifty-five posts & 8,356 followers.

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4,160 posts. 93,440 comments. 11.3 million words, about 126 books of argument.

Start with a subject, a place or an author. A post can sit under two subjects, so the counts overlap.

India 1,805 · Pakistan 945 · United States 549 · United Kingdom 231 · Middle East and the Gulf 191 · Bangladesh 159 · Iran 141 · China 124

Politics and public life1,115 postsHistory780 postsReligion and philosophy507 postsSociety, caste and identity1,002 postsLanguage, literature and culture554 postsScience, genetics and technology377 postsEconomy and development233 postsMigration and diaspora320 postsGeopolitics, security and conflict682 posts

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