Indian diaspora
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Browncast Episode 54: Sojourn in India as a international Parsi
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Iona Italia, a Parsi raised in Europe, about her experience of returning to the Indian subcontinent; she hosts the Two for Tea podcast, edits…
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Brown Pundits Browncast episode 52: Sahil Handa, National Review intern and cosmopolitan conservative
A BrownCast episode on cosmopolitan conservatism with Sahil Handa, a National Review writer and Harvard student raised north of London, whose father is a Punjabi from Kenya and whose mother…
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No honor among brownz
Quotes a report on Subway franchisees alleging that supervisors manipulated inspections, with the poster’s comment that beneath it lies a story of South Asian petty corruption and that business reporters…
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Why the Diaspora is not as interesting to me
The author explains why the diaspora interests him less than it once did: Indian-American identity now seems settled and assimilated, while the lives of 1.3 billion Indians, and 400 million…
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The Harilals of Hong Kong
Praises a video of a Hong Kong business family as the joint family done well, and suggests that diaspora trading families will keep Hinduism alive against assimilation.
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BrownCast Podcast episode 26: Surya Yalamanchili, all-American desi on politics, India, and culture
The host talks to Surya Yalamanchili, author of Decoding the Donald, former Apprentice contestant and 2010 Democratic congressional candidate. They cover Indian and American politics, colourism among South Asians, growing…
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Brown is all, all is brown
Razib Khan argues for a liberal, broad view of who counts as ‘brown’ or desi, using adoptees raised as English-speaking American Christians and converts to South Asian religions as test…
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Africa’s only Hindu island
Starting from Mauritius as Africa’s only Hindu-majority island, X.T.M speculates on Hindu island diasporas, the role of Brahmin migrants in spreading caste, and an Aryan-versus-AASI model of masculine and mother-goddess…
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10 Indians who have made a global marki
X.T.M posts his wife’s list of Indians and Pakistanis who have made a global impact, with his and Kabir’s additions, noting Pakistanis do not scale the same peaks as Indians.
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Home – Lost, Found and Imagined
Reposts Ruchira Paul’s 2007 personal essay from her Accidental Blogger archive on being an NRI and the idea of home, with an excerpted passage on her late father-in-law, a noted…
