Hello Brown Pundits – Brown Pundits

Omar invited me to contribute to BP. I am Naveen
Kumar, a semi-urban self-employed youth of North-West India, was raised in
Haryana and few years back graduated from IIT-Kharagpur in Aerospace Engineering.

I come from Bishnoi
community and a highly politicised extended family.

Our culture is a mixed Punjabi-Haryanavi-Rajasthani
one. Before 1947, the clan was spread across both sides of what is now Radcliffe
line (Punjab-Rajasthan junction). Presently, most of our people settled in 2 districts
at Indo-Pak border: Firozpur in Punjab and Ganganagar in Rajasthan.

From Indian polity, history, geography, technology, society
and statecraft; I’ll be posting on varied subjects (mainly focussed on India and broader South Asian region).

Cheers!

PS: If
this mishmash of an intro, doesn’t make any sense, happy to help 🙂

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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Brown Pundits Archive