📊 Estimated Audience Size & Profile

    • WordPress dashboard data noted roughly 20,000 monthly readers circa mid-2020  .

    • Updated trends confirm continued modest growth, with India-based IPs making up a rising share  .Monthly Unique Users

  1. Comment Engagement

    • Recent posts regularly attract 100+ comments, indicating strong reader engagement and active discourse.

    • An average reading time on site is 4+ minutes, suggesting high dwell and thoughtful consumption  .

     

  2. Reader Geography (2018 Data)

    • Estimated by mid-2018:

      • United States: ~35%

      • India: ~29%

      • Followed by UK, Canada, Pakistan, and others  .

       

    • Likely similar or more skewed toward India today, given recent commentary.

     

 


 

🔎 Summary Table

 

Metric

Estimate / Insight

Monthly Readers

~20,000 (unique visitors)

Engagement per Post

~100+ comments; high dwell time (~4 min+)

Geographic Spread

USA ~35%, India ~29%, UK ~6%, Pakistan ~5%

Engagement Quality

Active discussions, reflections, back-and-forth

Growth Trend

Steady rise; India traffic accelerating


 

✅ Takeaway

  • Readership is modest in scale (~20K/month), but engagement is high, with active comments and deep platform dwell.

  • Most traction likely comes from Indian-origin and South Asia-adjacent readers, especially online communities aligned with diaspora and intellectual South Asian discourse.

  • This audience profile aligns with Brown Pundits’ ethos — curated intellectual conversation, not mass media reach.



Hinduphobia does not exist?

Kabir:

“Hinduphobia” does not exist. Islamophobia is a real thing. The two are not the same.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNSOUMMIXEZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

What is Trump doing?

https://x.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1960453324026863834

he’s claiming 7 jets down |

he’s mimicking the Indian accent (no no no) |

he’s claiming Indo-Pak tensions are centuries old (alluding to the Hindu Muslim divide) |

he’s claiming credit for the resolution of the May conflict |

Charlie Kirk open thread

I’ve been busy and I’ve posts on the go but Open Thread:

(1.) Charlie Kirk

(2.) Nepal

thanks Indosaurus and sbakkarum for excellent posts in the meantime..

Enough with the

Kabir:

I’m not “inventing victimization”. I’m calling out the anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim biases of the commentariat.

Do think about why no Indian Muslim comments here. We don’t even know if Indian Muslims read this blog.

Vedam

A fellow TamBram writes about it; https://nereview.com/article/the-trials-of-subu-vedam.

The word Brahmin is mentioned 4 times in the non-paywall foreword.

Subu’s father was an academic, a physics professor and materials scientist at Penn State, who would have blended seamlessly with my parents’ friends in North Carolina, who were all vegetarian and spoke Brahminical Tamil with its idiosyncratic conjugations and vocabulary.

Dr. V

War of the Aryans

since Sbarrkum writes on Dravidians, Dalits & Aryans; I wanted to leave a short comment (for now)

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