Tamil Brahmins
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Vedam
A link to a New England Review piece, ‘The Trials of Subu Vedam’. The poster notes that the foreword mentions Brahmins four times and recalls vegetarian Tamil-speaking families from his…
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Browncast Episode 110: Kala!
In Browncast Episode 110, Razib, Mukunda and Suraj discuss being dark-skinned and South Asian: prejudice from Punjabis towards Tamils, whether ‘black Madrasi’ is insulting, Indian American attitudes to social justice,…
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Genetic odds & ends
Razib Khan notes a Cambodian sample from 100 to 300 AD with considerable Indian ancestry, and argues appearance is a poor guide to ancestry, since physical variation within Indian populations…
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Browncast Episode 64. We Talk with Meru Media about India, Pakistan, Hinduism, TNT, Aryans..
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in which Mukunda Raghavan of Meru Media, which describes itself as a home for all things Indic, discusses Hindu drinking culture, India, Pakistan, Tamil Brahmins…
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An Iyer in the Whitehouse
A short note that Kamala Harris’s mother was a Tamil Brahmin immigrant, that Harris reminds the author of an Iyer friend, and that he thinks she is a likelier president…
