COVID-19
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A Conversation on World Cinema
The author recalls how a classmate who works in films led friends through non-English, non-Indian movies during lockdown, and shares a podcast in which they discuss some 15 to 20…
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Open Thread – Renewal of Covid Restrictions in India
Open thread on renewed Covid restrictions in India. Nachiketa offers an amateur view that Omicron’s upper-respiratory tilt may make it milder and could end the pandemic cheaply, and calls night…
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Guess values, Priors and Science
Prompted by a Wired piece on the 5-micron aerosol boundary, the author argues science was slow to accept airborne spread of Covid because of a flawed starting assumption, likening it…
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Pivoting to the future
Quoting a report on Delhi reopening after its deadly Covid wave, the author asks how Modi will supercharge India’s economy, saying as an American that a strong India is good…
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Open Thread – 05/15/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 15 May 2021, opening with Covid-19 in India and the Middle East conflict, with a remark that there is too much news.
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Browncast: Gaurav Returns to Give An Update on Indian Covid & Marathi Politics
In a BP podcast, Akshar talks to Gaurav, a contributor with an eclectic range of positions across the Indian political spectrum, about the coronavirus’s impact in India, societal changes and…
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Monkey see – Monkey Do ?
A self-described layman’s rant a year into India’s lockdown, asking how different the global Covid response would have been without China’s example and puzzling over why Indian spikes came in…
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Looking back at COVID-19
A pathology trainee in Texas, writing on policy rather than clinical medicine, looks back at the Covid-19 response, drawing on two New Yorker pieces and recalling early complacency about outbreaks…
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“too many Indian names”
A New York Times report on a Houston doctor fired and charged after giving expiring Covid-19 vaccine doses to patients, with officials questioning ‘too many Indian names’, posted with the…
