Dharmic traditions
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Browncast Episode 107: Kushal Mehra on religion
In Browncast Episode 107, Razib talks to Kushal Mehra about their views on religion: Mehra describes his transition from New Atheist to Carvaka, and the differences he sees between Dharmic…
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Browncast Episode 106: Neha Srivastava, traditionalist Hindu
In Browncast Episode 106, Razib talks to Neha Srivastava, a self-described traditionalist Hindu, about her nonprofit Shaktitva, American and Indian politics, whether she will stay in the US, and what…
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Why Indian Muslims are in India not of India
Razib Khan asks why Indian Muslims have stayed less assimilated than earlier arrivals such as the Ahom. He argues that the gap between Islam and Dharmic traditions matters, and that…
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A Struggle for True Liberation
The author argues that India freed from British rule in 1947 soon fell back into hierarchy and narrowing ideas of Indianness that broke its pluralism, and links a longer ‘Dharmic…
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How nice it is to have a brown slave girl.
The author argues that a quiet, unspoken racism persists in Britain even for educated and wealthy minorities, citing a news-presenter gag and Nish Kumar’s complaint about being called Patel, and…
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Notes the emergence of “Indic civilization”
A supplement to the podcast clarifying terms: the author, a self-described semantic instrumentalist, says disagreements over words matter less than the concepts behind them, and uses ‘Indic’ for the civilisation…
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A “carvaka” perspective historicity of myth and religion
Razib Khan argues from a sceptical standpoint that Ram and Krishna, if they existed, belong to prehistory like Abraham or Zoroaster, whereas the Buddha and Mahavira are liminal figures, and…
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White presenting, women presenting, person defends Dharmic terminology from white people
Razib Khan mocks a tweet in which white-presenting people defend Dharmic terminology, agreeing that Hindu belief is sometimes belittled as ‘mythology’ but arguing such public posturing is more about the…
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Anti-India(s): Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
The poster attributes the BJP’s better-than-expected showing to polarisation on both sides, a Hindu-first coalition outvoting an ‘Ummah-first’ one, and notes support from Dharmic groups and some minorities. Bengal, Kerala…
