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Intellectual Brown Web

Sarah Haider, Shadi Hamid, myself and Murtaza Hussain recorded an impromptu podcast that we titled the “Intellectual Brown Web.” These are basically people I know well (I am good friends with both Sarah and Shadi) or who got involved in Twitter threads repeatedly (Murtaza). But there is no “Hindo-origin person.” Since I don’t give a shit about representation or affirmative action I don’t care too much…but this got me thinking, what based Hindu Americans would you have on? I know plenty of based Hindus from India…but most Hindu Indian Americans are Rho Khanna at the most based.

I mean think about this: why the fuck am I having to write long pieces about how the anti-caste discrimination stuff is bullshit? I’m just a tech entrepreneur who isn’t even from a Hindu background. Suhag at HAF does stuff and others, but where are the big hitters? Instead you have public Hindu Americans proudly pushing this stuff.

Note: there are plenty of based Hindu Americans who are doctors, engineers and business people. They just aren’t public people. Which is fine, but if you don’t speak for yourself, at some point Razib Khan is going to get tired of doing so.

The Keralite Martial Art Kalaripayattu & How it Influenced the Foundation of Chinese Kung Fu

On the 27th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Ram Sundar on ‘Kalaripayatu’ – The Ancient Keralite martial art tradition, its principles and the combat training methods.

We also covered the fascinating and less known story of a South Indian prince Bodidharma, going to China and teaching the shaolin monks this martial art. This leads us to the origin story of modern day Kung Fu which sprouted from Kalari.

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Mr. Tilak Devasher on his book The Pashtuns- A Contested History

Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above!

Mr. Tilak Devasher, Author, Member, National Security Advisory Board and former Special Secretary, Govt of India joins Maneesh, Somnath and Dr. Ali to talk about his latest book The Pashtuns- A Contested History.

Abhivardhan on Indic Futurism – A Civilizational Vision for the Future

On the 26th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Abhivardhan from Bharat Pacific on the topic of Indic Futurism – A Civilizational Vision for the Future.

It is a topic that is part of the larger vision of Indic Modernity. While the Traditionalists and Conservatives have been well documented in the Socio-Cultural Civilizational space, the Indic Modernists have been less studied.

While Modernists do study the past and take lessons from it. What differentiates them from others in the Civilizational renaissance movement is that they are present in the future and present a more futuristic vision.

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Open Thread, 2/17/2023, Brown Pundits

Nimrata Nikki Haley is running for President of the United States of American.

1) She’s a donor-class wet dream and a throwback to the pre-Trump Republican party. I don’t think this is going to work, but who knows?

2) It’s America, you do what you want, but not going to lie; Bobby Jindal was always a bit too unctuous in his urge to emphasize his American bonafides. Haley’s biography strikes me as more natural and relatable.

3) I think she may be tapped for VP on identity politics grounds by the Republican party. Interesting VP debate with Kamala Devi Harris.

Major General Vikram Dev Dogra on Lessons from Military for Civilians

On the 25th Episode of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Major General Vikram Dev Dogra on The Lessons for Civilians from a Military Person’s Life.

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Sunny Narang in Conversation with Dr. Omar Ali.

Sunny Narang, a Punjabi born and brought up in Delhi with ancestral roots in Pakistan, speaks with Dr. Ali on post partition Punjabis in Delhi; they also talk about culture and people who have and continue to shape the history of the sub-continent, from Jain bankers in Mughal India to the business clans of modern India.

Some of the books talked about on the episode.

Indiraji Through my Eyes: Usha Bhagat

The City of Hope The Faridabad Story L.C. Jain

The South Asian Papers” , a collection of 16 papers by Stephen Philip Cohen

All These Years: A Memoir by Raj Thapar

Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel

Punjabi Century by Prakash Tandon

Ami Ganatra on Yoga – The Higher Learnings

On the 24th Episode (Part 2) of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Ami Ganatra on The Higher Learnings related to Yoga.

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Ami Ganatra on Yoga 101 – The Fundamentals of Yoga

On the 24th Episode (Part 1) of The Indic Explorer Show, I spoke to Ami Ganatra on Yoga 101 – The Basics & Fundamentals of Yoga.

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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto

Every nationality or cultural group should have a song done like this. I’m writing a Substack on Vikings, who were quite nasty in many ways, but popular culture songs like this make them seem “bad ass.”