Punjabis
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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the highest signal comment of the last 48 hours
Promotes a long-standing commenter’s reply as the best of the last 48 hours: that Pakistani elites misread India by generalising from its north-west, that South Indians care little about Pakistan,…
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Bharat Needs No Validation
X.T.M takes a commenter’s remark that the Ramayana did not resonate as a cue to argue that Bharat is civilisational, that Pakistan is an ‘Urdufied Punjab’ still colonised in mind,…
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Sunny Narang in Conversation with Dr. Omar Ali.
A BrownCast in which Sunny Narang, a Punjabi raised in Delhi with ancestral roots in Pakistan, talks to Dr Ali about post-partition Punjabis in Delhi and those who shaped the…
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Open Thread – 08/04/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 4 August 2021, asking readers about a Twitter claim that ‘Indian American’ culture is basically Punjabi culture, and noting that podcasts go to patrons early.
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On Ahmadiyyas and Jains
The author argues that Hindu treatment of Jains and Muslim treatment of Ahmadiyyas show why Hindus and Muslims differ: for Hindus culture almost always trumps religion, while hostility to Ahmadiyyas…
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Browncast Episode 53: Memories of partition: Amrik Chattha
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Dr Amrik Chattha, author of Safar: A Child’s Walk to Freedom During the Partition of India, about life in a Punjabi village before Partition…
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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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Are Sikhs Exceptional?
Prompted by a Twitter discussion, the author relays a Mumbai doctor friend’s view that Sikhs are the only group about whom two positive generalisations can be made, that they do…
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The Bollywood caste
X.T.M calls Bollywood a caste of linked acting, industrial and cricketing families, mostly Punjabi and Muslim men, wonders where the Sikh men are, and argues that India’s modernisation, shaped by…
