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Brown Pundits and the Echo Chamber Problem
The author warns that Brown Pundits risks becoming a right-wing echo chamber, and argues that after Pahalgam India’s position has weakened while Pakistan under Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif has…
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Indians assimilate a bit too well?
Remarks that two very different Indian-Americans are in a public fight, and wonders whether Indians have little asabiyyah, assimilating too well.
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The Ilhan Omar of Brown Pundits
The author likens the commenter Kabir to Ilhan Omar: often right but polarising, and good for traffic. He argues principle needs pragmatism, that nonviolent resistance outlasts shrillness, and that the…
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H1B Open Thread
Open thread on H-1B visas; the author sees the Persian Gulf states emerging as a conduit between capital, labour and technology while the West raises walls.
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Trump Has Birthed Eurasia
X.T.M argues that Donald Trump’s treatment of India has pushed Narendra Modi towards the SCO summit alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and reads the occasion as the start of…
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Hinduphobia Exists, But Pakistan Was Not Born from It
X.T.M argues that Hinduphobia exists, mostly as dismissal and erasure in academic and diasporic discourse, but that Pakistan was not born of it. He sees the Partition as a Muslim…
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USA, India, Pakistan.. an eternal prickly braid
Omar Ali argues that the US–India relationship has soured since May 2025 as Trump attacks India’s protectionism, probably over Russian oil, while Pakistan benefits. He sets out his guesses on…
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Browncast: Trump, Tariffs, Hurt Feelings, and India..
Omar Ali talks with Kushal Mehra, host of the Carvaka podcast, and regular contributor Amey Chaugle about the public war of words between the USA and India, partly over Indian…
