The Emissary
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Caste in 2nd Generation American Diaspora
Writing as a second-generation Indian American, the author says caste hardly features for their generation apart from three exceptions they name, ‘SJW Brahmins’, ‘victim card’ Dalits and Jatts, doubts that…
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Scale – In Satyagraha, Societies, and Statecraft
Drawing on Nassim Taleb’s idea of scale, the author argues that kindness and Gandhian satyagraha work best at small scale, while in societies and geopolitics might towers over magnanimity, which…
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The Ambition of the Emirates
The Emissary frames the rise of the Emirates through the old Arab pattern of settled and nomadic peoples, tracing the Gulf Arabs’ roots to Nabatean, South Arabian and Bedouin streams…
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Brahmanism Versus Brahminism
The Emissary separates Brahman, the metaphysical absolute, from the brahmin priestly caste, and says he prefers ‘Vedic Dharma’ to ‘Brahmanism’, which he finds fair as a label for scriptural Hinduism,…
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Browncast – Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop: The Origins of South Asian Islamism
BrownCast: Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop on the origins of South Asian Islamism.
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Belief and Reclamation
The Emissary frames the 5 August 2020 Ayodhya temple foundation as a civilisation’s long-awaited reclamation, retelling Ram’s journey in the Ramayana and arguing that its classification as itihasa, history rather…
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Browncast Episode 112: Tarun Sridharan from Odd Compass – Rajas and Sultans
A BrownCast episode in which Razib and Akshar talk history with Tarun Sridharan of the Odd Compass YouTube channel, covering the Malacca Sultanate, Vijayanagara’s downfall and Maratha success, and recommending…
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Why the Far Left Is More Dangerous Than the Far Right
A brown Democrat argues that the far left poses a greater danger to America than the far right, citing survey charts and drawing parallels with the Indian left, while stressing…
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Browncast Episode 108: Harsh Gupta on the India-China Conflict and Going Long India
In Browncast Episode 108, Omar, Mukunda and Akshar speak to investor and author Harsh Gupta about the big-picture geopolitics of the Galwan clash in Ladakh, Indian civilisation, and why he…
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The Shadow Sultanate: Qatar
The author argues that Qatar, a tiny gas-rich state, may be the world’s most influential country per square mile, using Al Jazeera, founded and funded by its ruling House of…
