social media
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Religion
Social Media Influencer Kamya Buch on How is Dharma Relevant for Today’s Youth
On episode 6 of The Indic Paradigm, the host talks to social media influencer Kamya Buch about the relevance of Dharma for young people in the modern world.
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What do Hindu nationalists think of the Taliban? Do they envy them?
Prompted by Instagram political memes, the author asks whether Hindu nationalists envy the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and how they really feel about it.
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What the internet is today
The author warns anonymous trolls that a paid search could identify them, says he could make one ‘famous’ with his large following, and says he may soon ‘make examples’ of…
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Culture
Indian Twitter shows why a “universal translator” wouldn’t work
Razib Khan argues that a universal translator would not help Indian Twitter, because differences in style, idiom and cultural frames make conversations with Americans and Britons opaque even in English,…
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The masses hitting the internet
The author suggests that Twitter’s problems and the prominence of ‘Indian Twitter’ reflect a new wave of mass users coming online, like AOL users in the 1990s, and expects the…
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Diaspora
America does a good job assimilating immigrants
Reacting to a Pakistani American woman’s online attack on Priyanka Chopra, the author argues that her self-righteous style shows American upbringing and that America is good at assimilating immigrants, even…
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Brown Pundits
The Brown Pundits on whatsapp
The author reports the WhatsApp group’s rapid growth, observes that the most consistent commenters tend to be English-fluent, diaspora-connected Hindu men, and argues the site must tap social media and…
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Society
Markian asexualising Colored women?
The author claims that a Facebook video-maker casts black and brown women as platonic friends and blonde women as romantic interests, reading this as a subliminal pattern that desexualises women…
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Brown Pundits
Brown Pundits on Social Media-
Asks readers to follow Brown Pundits on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and to subscribe to the podcast, with a list of contributors’ accounts.
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A toxic cocktail of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness
The poster says he knows little about the India-Pakistan crisis but criticises a social-media commentator’s self-absorbed remarks, calling them a toxic mix of American narcissism and Indian American self-righteousness.
