Brown Pundits: Recent Episodes
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Jyoti Rahman and Shafiqur Rahman give an update on political developments in Bangladesh.
Amey, Dr. Omar Ali and Kushal Mehra of The Carvaka Podcast discuss the Indo-US blowup over trade negotiations and where things could go from here onwards... Links - The Carvaka Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPxuul6zSLAfKSsm123Vww
A freewheeling and an emotionally charged conversation between Omar, Poulasta and Amey on Operation Sindoor.
KJ took a dip at the Triveni Sangam, here he is in conversation with Dr Omar Ali and Maneesh on what was the experience like. His travels across Lucknow and Varanasi make an appearance too. We conclude the episode with a hat tip to the greatest Indian Dessert.
This Brown Pundits podcast episode features hosts Amey and Dr. Omar Ali in conversation with Vishal Ganesan, a lawyer and thinker, about his essay "Frontier Dharma" and the meaning of being Hindu in the diaspora. Vishal discusses how his observations of mainstream media and academic discourse led him to research the historical representation of Hindus, which he found to be distorted by a lens stemming from 18th and 19th-century missionary narratives.
Vishal's essay - https://frontierdharma.substack.com/p/the-hindu-case-against-hinduism-a
In this episode, KJ and Gaurav talk about the assembly election results in Maharashtra with Indian Mango (a Maratha from Marathwada) and a Kannadiga from the coast.
In this chat our 2 Resident US citizens and 2 Indians analyse US elections and its implications
In this episode KJ and Gaurav talk to a Marathi commentator from Marathwada-Vidarbha region about upcoming MH elections and the role of Maratha politics in it.
In this episode of Browncast we have Kushal Mehra talk with Amey and Omar on the recent attacks on Canadian Hindu temples by Khalistanis during Diwali. We also touch upon the diaspora politics in Canada, the Khalistani influence on the Canadian state apparatus and lastly how Trudeau's radical immigration changes have contributed to the problem. Please follow Kushal on Twitter as well as his popular Youtube podcast "The Carvaka Podcast"
Twitter - https://x.com/kushal_mehra
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPxuul6zSLAfKSsm123Vww Additional Links ---------------- Terry Milewski's 2007 documentary "Sikh Politics in Canada" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52zMm9JeMyE&ab_channel=PuneetSahani
In this edition of the browncast, Amey and Dr. Omar Ali talk to Dr. Edward Luttwak on the current escalating situation between Israel and Iran in the Middle East, the unique individualistic culture of the IDF and arc of 2000 years of Jewish and Persian history that informs both their strategic cultures.
Amit, Amey and Razib revisit their health trajectory since 2020, and the optimum mix of dieting and working out to be fit in the 21st century.
Omar Ali, Jyoti Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman, Karol Karpinski and Razib Khan discuss the end of the Sheikh Hasina regime.
Amey, Karol, Paulasta and Omari Ali react to the overthrow of Sheik Hasina as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
KJ and Bansi dive into the captivating world of non-English, non-Indian cinema, exploring hidden gems and diverse stories from across the globe.
In this podcast we gathered together a band of brownpundits (Mukunda Raghavan, Srikanth Krishnamachary, Maneesh Taneja, Gaurav Lele, KJ and myself) and talked about the Indian elections in details. As expected the BJP's setbacks get a lot of play, but we discuss much more than that and hope to follow up with more focused episodes on some issues (such as the future of Hindu Nationalism).
How many fires are there, how many suns? How many dawns? How many waters?
I ask this, O fathers, not to challenge. O Sages, I ask it to know
(RigVeda Book 10, hymn 88)
Amey and Razib talk about a new paper, The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans, and its relevance to the origins of Indians.
Omar, Mukunda, Maneesh, Gaurav and KJ have a freewheeling chat on the upcoming elections in India.
Omar and Maneesh talk to K Jayaraman on political movements and the political parties in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
On this episode of the Browncast Amey and Razib talk about Bangladesh with Karol, our Polish economist South Asia expert who lived in Bangladesh for two years and is fluent in Bengali. Karol discusses the upcoming elections, the role of party politics in Bangladeshi life, and Bangladesh's role in the geopolitics of the region.
Omar and Mukunda talk to Prof. Christine Fair on state of affairs in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and her upcoming book.
Amey and Razib talk about the philoSemitism of Indians, and the pivot to Israel of the BJP. Amey discusses the longstanding role of Jews on the Konkan coast, the pro-Palestinian stance inherited from Nehru, but eventually pivoted away by the BJP do to Indo-Israeli cooperation and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
In this podcast, Omar and Mukunda talk to popular author, columnist and intellectual Vamsee Juluri.
Amey returns to the Browncast to do a "bro caste" on genetics in Sri Lanka, casteism in America and India and the new legislation in California, talk about his immigration odyssey and how it's stacked against Indians, and finally, how William Dalrymple gives Marathas short shrift.
BPers Razib Khan and Mukunda Raghavan chat with Pushpita Prasad and Sudha Jagannathan of the Coalition of the Hindus of North America discuss the newfound relevance of caste in the USA, and how a toxic brew up self-interest, identity politics and social justice have caught Indian Americans in a vortex of anti-discrimination legislation.
In this episode, Shrikant, Gaurav and Omar talk to Maneesh about the beginning and consolidation of British East India rule in India. We end the episode on the 1857 revolt.
Dr Prakash Shah, Reader in Culture and Law at School of Law Queen Mary University of London, talks to Dr Ali on the framework of studying caste in India and it's colonial antecedents.
Chitra Iyer, Co-founder and CEO of Space2Grow, talks to Maneesh about Anti Child Trafficking, Digital Safety and making Indians employable.
Shrikanth talks to Maneesh about the History of South India post Vijayanagar kingdom till the year 1857.
Maneesh is in a freewheeling conversation with Pooja Sharma, founder of The Sarvodya Collective. A NPO working to build awareness and allyship for Neurodiversity as a cause.
Prathamesh and Omar talk to Maneesh about Europeans in India.
This a precursor to a dedicated episode on the history of British in India.
In this episode, we discuss the Rajputs - their origins, wars and alliances in the medieval time. The speakers are Jay Vardhan Singh, Gaurav Lele and Maneesh Taneja.
Author of multiple books on Pakistan Mr. Tilak Devasher joins Maneesh, Somnath and Dr. Omar Ali to talk about his new book The Pashtuns-A Contested History.
Sunny Narang, a punjabi born and brought up in Delhi with ancestral roots in Pakistan, speaks for Dr. Ali on punjabis; they also talk about culture and people who have and continue to shape history of the sub-continent.
In this episode, Prathamesh Godbole and Amit Paranjpe discuss the Maratha empire - spanning from its humble origins as a Jagir of Adilshahi to the largest power in the subcontinent before the British conquest. We discuss the great maratha rulers Shivaji Raje, Sambhaji Raje and the Peshwas.
Maneesh talks to Jay and Omar on the socio-culutral milieu of the Mughals and their decline.
In this episode, Omar and Jay discuss the rise of the "Great" Mughals. We start from the rise of Babur and follow through the empire his descendants. We do not cover the challengers to the Mughal hegemony (Maharana Pratap, Chattrapati Shivaji and Lachit Borphukan) OR the fall of the Mughal empire or other softer aspects in this episode. All that will be covered in the coming episodes.
In this episode, Gaurav talks with J Sai Deepak - the prolific author about Bharat, Hindu civilization, politics and his books.
Omar is in conversation with Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr. Mohammad Taqi on the ongoing political upheaval in Pakistan.
Shrikanth and Gaurav talk to Maneesh about all things Vijayanagara Empire. An empire that lasted longer than Mughal empire and whose legancy thirves to this day.
In this episode of the history podcast, Omar and Jay discuss the period of Delhi Sultanate with Jay and Gaurav. We go over all the major dynasties and also discuss the religious, economic aspects of this time.
As Omar Ali puts it, the legacy of Delhi Sultanate is the legacy of Islam in the subcontinent.
13th Episode of the History Podcast. Shrikanth, Mukunda and Gaurav speak to Maneesh on all things South India from 1100-1400 AD.
Maneesh talks to Sai and Arun on all things Tamil Cinema- its history, its unique relationship with the political milieu of Tamil Nadu, its evolution over the years and the cults of personalities that it has spawned.
Maneesh talks to Sai and Arun on all things Tamil Cinema- its history, its unique relationship with the political milieu of Tamil Nadu, its evolution over the years and the cults of personalities that it has spawned.
The History Podcast resumes on Brown Pundits. In episode 12 Mukunda and Jay talk to Maneesh about the cultural and social milieu in North India from 700-1200 AD.
Maneesh has a freewheeling conversation with Roshan Cariappa on the Indian Start-up ecosytem.
In this episode Gaurav chats with Khalid Baig - an Indian Nationalist on a wide range of topics - Indian nationalism, Hindu-Muslim relations, Hindutva and bright future of India. Khalid Baig and Amana Ansari Begam also run a very popular Youtube show called India This Week By Amana & Khalid - YouTube.
We also chatted to his co-host Amana Ansari Begam a few months back - Amana Begam Ansari on Muslims and Women in India – Brown Pundits
On this episode of the Brown Pundits Browncast I had a long conversation with Nikunj Trivedi and Pushpita Prasad of the Coalition of Hindus of North America. One of the things we talked extensively about during this podcast is the Carnegie Endowment study Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey. The survey is rich with data that might surprise (for example, there are as many Bengali speakers as Punjabi speakers in the US, though I suspect this might be due to many ethnic Punjabis putting Hindi down as their mother tongue). But for the purposes of this episode, we were interested in caste identity, and how it relates to Hindus in America.
The Carnegie takes a shot at the 2018 Equality Labs survey that argues for the pervasiveness of caste discrimination:
A 2018 survey of 1,500 South Asian Americans found that many low-caste members of numerous diaspora communities had endured firsthand experience of caste discrimination. However, the study is not based on a representative sample, raising questions about the generalizability of its findings.
The figure above shows that most Hindu Indian Americans do not live in a caste-homogeneous environment. There are reasons for this. From the text:
Forty-seven percent of Hindu respondents report identifying with a caste, which means the majority (53 percent) said that they do not personally identify with a caste group of any kind. However, there is marked variation by place of birth. Whereas 53 percent of foreign-born Hindu Indian Americans affiliate with a caste group, 34 percent of U.S.-born Hindu Indian Americans do the same.
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...Overall, there are 632 respondents in the IAAS sample who belong to the Hindu faith but only 293 who report identifying with a caste group. Of this latter group, the overwhelming majority—83 percent—categorize themselves as General or upper caste. Sixteen percent identify as a member of OBC and 1 percent each identify as Adivasi/Scheduled Tribe (ST) or Dalit/Scheduled Caste (SC).
The latter number, that about 80 percent of Hindu Indian Americans are not OBC, Dalit or Adivasi is exactly what I've seen in other data. But perhaps a more important aspect is that large numbers of Hindus in America don't "affiliate" with a caste group. Some of the American-born individuals may not actually even know their caste group, though the foreign-born ones clearly know their origins as noted in the text:
Figure 21 looks more closely at the caste composition of social networks among Hindus. Seventy-four percent of Hindu respondents who report not identifying with a caste nevertheless know enough to be able to identify the caste identities of their social networks. Only 26 percent of Hindus who do not identify with a caste respond to questions about the caste composition of their social networks by answering “don’t know.” This indicates that even though a large proportion of Hindu respondents say they do not identify with a caste, only a small fraction are unaware of the caste composition of their networks.
What is also striking is how relatively small the differences are between respondents who identify with a caste versus those who do not. While the former report that a slightly higher share of their social network comprises people of the same caste, if one sets aside the “don’t know” responses, the relative differences between caste identifiers and non-identifiers is marginal. For instance, 27 percent of Hindu respondents who identify with a caste report that all or most of their Indian friends share their caste affiliation. Nineteen percent of those who do not identify with a caste group answer similarly. Respondents who acknowledge a caste identity are only slightly more likely to report that some of their social network is made up of people of the same caste (41 percent versus 33 percent for those without a caste identity).
So here is the subtle point: people who do not identify with a caste group nevertheless can often assess whether their social circle is mostly of their caste group or not. The dynamic here is that people are proactively disavowing or denying caste identity personally, but they clearly still know the provenance of their own lineage and that of their friends.
The landscape of caste and America is complex. Nevertheless, today's social justice activists are trying to reframe it as just another black-white dichotomy, with oppressed Dalits, etc., against oppressive Brahmins.
Finally, we discuss the casual and not-so-casual anti-Hindu comments that are spreading across mainstream discourse. For example, an organization at UC Davis called the Other Collective has said some really bizarre things about Diwali:
In this episode Maneesh and Gaurav chat with Jay and Omar Ali and they discuss North Indian politics and power struggles for a vast period from 700 CE to 1200 CE. We touch upon the origins of the Imperial Pratiharas and Palas and discuss the tripartrite struggle for domination of Kannauj between the 3 great kingdoms of Indian subcontinent while a storm brewed up in the west. We also talk about the earlier Arab invasions of Sindh and Punjab and the later Turkic invasions by the Ghaznavids and Ghurids which laid the foundation of Islamicate rule in India.
Omar Ali and Maneesh Taneja have a free-flowing conversation with Gaurav about movies in the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century
Omar Ali and Maneesh Taneja have a free-flowing conversation with Gaurav about movies in the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century
The history podcast returns to North India. Gaurav and Jay are in conversation with Maneesh about the changes in the North Indian landscape before and after the times of Harsha - generally considered as the last Emperor of "Ancient India". We touch upon political splintering that followed the fall of the imperial Guptas, the political Game of thrones that followed, the Kumbha Mela and the decline of trade. 玄奘 (Xuanzang) and Banabhatta make appearances as prolific storytellers along with the stories of contested Urban decay and decline of Buddhism in the Indian heartland.
In this episode of the History series, we return to North India and talk about the Age of the Guptas. We touch upon the military genius of Samudragupta and various Gupta emperors, the emergence of Classical Hinduism and various forms of Art, Music, Science which consolidated during this era. The speakers of the episode are Gaurav Lele and Jay Vardhan and the discussion is moderated by Maneesh
Maneesh talks to Jay and Shrikanth on the history of Southern India for the period 200 BC to 500 AD
Sixth Episode in the series of podcasts on the History of Indian sub-continent. Shrikanth and Jay talk to Maneesh on all things North of Vindhyas for the period 200BC to 200 AD.
The History podcast passes through the Magadh era. Mukunda Raghavan and Gaurav Lele talk to us about the sub-continent at the end of the Vedic age and take us all the way to the ruler whose symbols are part of the Modern Indian Republic's mythology. Alexander and Vishnugupta Chankaya make an appearance and we speculate on the first recorded caesarean birth.
In this episode of Browncast, 3 ethnic Punjabis - Omar, Maneesh and Salman Rashid have a free wheeling discussion.
In this podcast Mukunda and Omar chat with theindicexplorer (@theindicexplor1) /. Indic explorer is is pretty active on Club house
In this episode Maneesh chats with Amana Begam Ansari on Muslims and women in India. Please follow Amana @Amana_Ansari on twitter and also follow her show India this week https://bit.ly/Indiathisweek - https://www.youtube.com/c/IndiaThisWeekByAmanaKhalid
In this podcast, Omar Mukunda Shahada and Gaurav discuss the Karnataka hijab controversy and also touch upon other issues related to it.
https://theprint.in/india/viral-photos-bruised-egos-radical-student-groups-inside-story-of-karnatakas-hijab-crisis/827262/
Maneesh is in conversation with Arihant Pawariya. Arihant is a senior editor with the Swarajya magazine and an influential voice in the right-wing ecosystem in India. In a freewheeling conversation, Arihant talks about the ‘Core’ agenda and how he sees the Indian state behaving were India to turn into a Hindu state.
@maneesht and @haryannvi on Twitter.
Authors and books mentioned in the episode:
M. N. Srinivas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._N._Srinivas
Caste in Modern India: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2941637
Social Change in Modern India: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24431229
Thomas Sowell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
The Vision of Anointed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_the_Anointed
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Incerto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb#Incerto
Ayan Rand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Atlas Shrugged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
Who is John Galt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt
eceleb roon talks with Razib and Amey about the origin of the shape rotation and wordcel memes
https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
https://twitter.com/tszzl
The History Podcast reaches the Vedic age. Our speakers talk about its origins, its literature, its culture, and the legacy of the Vedic Age. Varna system makes an appearance as does Pythagoras Theorem. Among other things, our speakers talk of Vedic recitation techniques and different layers of Vedic literature.
Razib, Gaurav, Mukunda, Kushal Mehra from Carvaka, and Kartik Mohan discuss both sides of the Aryan debate.
Episode 3 of The History of the Indian Sub-continent series takes us to the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). Our panel journeys from the banks of the Oxus River to the Deccan plateau. We connect the genetic and archaeological dots, speculate about people whose scripts we are yet to decipher, talk about what they did for a living, their towns, and what are the missing blocks in our understanding of that age. The Dancing girl from Harappa makes an appearance as do textiles and we ask if the great bath of Mohenjo Daro was really the great bath or was it something else.
In this episode, Razib Khan explains the revolution in genomics and how it helps us reconstruct facets of Indian prehistory.
In the first episode, Maneesh Taneja is in conversation with Dr. Omar Ali, Shrikanth Krishnamachary and Gaurav Lele. We take 30,000 feet view of the history of the sub-continent.
Omar and Gaurav chat with author and journalist Rahul Pandita about Kashmir, pogroms, Maoists, the Indian state, ethnic cleansing etc.
Omar talks to Major Kamran Shafi, former press secretary to Benazir Bhutto and former Ambassador to Cuba
Razib talks to Surya about politics and culture, both in the USA and India. Special focus on the November election in Virginia.
Omar Ali talks to Major Amin to discuss the current Pakistan-Afghanistan and India-China conflict.
Mukunda talks to Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar about his intellectual project using the tools of science and philosophy to pursue truth.
Mukunda and Shahada have a wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Sheena Mason on race, literature, and culture.
In this episode of the browncast Gaurav and Mukunda talk with Alex Zuvran an Ex-Muslim Buddhist living in Bangladesh about the anti Hindu violence in Bangladesh.
Akshar and Razib chat with the prolific history twitter user Peter Nimitz about obscure tribes, the Indus Valley, and historical anomalies.
Maneesh has a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Omar Ali, a cofounder of Brown Pundits, about Pakistan and other issues.
Mukunda sites down to have a sober conversation with the former Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, Wahid Moorjah.
Mukunda and Shahada have a long discussion on a timely topic: Afghanistan. But this time, they talk with an Afghan activist.
Mukunda and Guarav have a long discussion with Shazia Ilmi, a spokesperson for the BJP, and former journalist.
Major Amin expresses his unvarnished views on the "age of strategic anarchy" in Afghanistan
This episodes features Akshar talking to Khushnood Nabizada, an Afghan government official and founder of Khaama News. Khushnood talks about growing up Afghanistan, being a journalist under the Taliban, and hopes for Afghanistan’s future.
https://www.khaama.com/
Razib talks to "Alex," a young man involved in the freethinker movement of Bangladesh. A revert to Buddhism, Alex speaks candidly about his dislike of Islam, his perception of Indians, and the state of tribal people in Bangladesh today.
Ani Zonneveld is founder and President of Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) . We debunk a few stereotypes, such as patriarchy, feminism, LGBT rights, human rights and human rights. We discuss Sharia law & Hadiths and its construct and narrative.
Ani promotes an inclusive understanding based on the values of Islam, in terms of love and compassion
Gaurav talks to Debleena Biswas and Deepali Kulkarni about what happened in 1971 with the killings of Bengalis, and in particular Hindus, by the Pakistani army.
Akshar talks to Guarav, our resident "Brown Pundit" in India, about what it's like to go through the "second wave" of the pandemic in India.
Shahada and Mukunda have an adult conversation with Dr.Seema Anand, author of “The Arts of Seduction”. Let's call this "Brown Pundits After Hours"...
Omar and Mukunda talk to Chris Iwanek, a Polish Indologist who has now become a commentator on Indian politics, with a focus on the BJP.
https://thediplomat.com/authors/krzysztof-iwanek/
Akshar and Mukunda talk to Hindu students at Rutgers about the future of Indology at their institution and cultural controversies around it.
Michelle Kerr is a teacher in the California, and a regular contributor on various educational podcasts. Brown Pundits Shahada, a teacher herself, discusses the challenges of Covid in education, the mental health implications and it’s long term impact.
Omar Ali talks to Keerthik Sasidharan about his book Dharma Forest, and its historical and philosophical background. https://twitter.com/KS1729
Omar, Srikanth, and Mukunda talk to Akshay Alladi about his vision of Indian conservatism.
For this episode of Unsupervised Learning, I talked to Richard Hanania of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
Richard is a smart and heterodox thinker whose ideas and opinions are informed by his background as a scholar of political science. He’s not “winging it.” Last fall The Washington Post published his op-ed, Americans hate each other. But we aren’t headed for civil war. My big question for him was if he had updated his assessment in light of recent events.
In addition to talking about whether the US will erupt in civil war or suffer a coup in the next decade, we also discuss a new reporthe co-authored, The National Populist Illusion: Why Culture, Not Economics, Drives American Politics. The conclusion is that a populist economic realignment isn’t happening, and in much of the podcast we discuss Richard’s belief that Republicans and Democrats will “regress to the mean.” He believes Donald J. Trump is a sui generis figure, and with his exit, Republicans will probably want to revert to their old playbook.
We also mull over the possibility that the “Great Awokening,” a phenomenon first identified by one of the fellows at Richard’s think-tank, Zach Goldberg, still has steam left in it, and what that means for the Biden administration.
Finally, while recording the podcast we uncover intriguing evidence that Jon Ossoff, Senator-Elect from Georgia, is “I.D.W.-adjacent.”
I’ve long followed Dr. Loury’s career since I read a 2002 profile about his life in First Things. To say it’s been interesting is understating the case. For those who are more curious, I highly recommend the Glenn Show, which has been running in various forms since 2008.
On this podcast we discuss:
- The value of economics as a predictive discipline
- Classical papers and texts in economics
- The abolition of the GRE
- The fall of the American academy
- China and globalization
- Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
John von Neumann came up a few times. Once in relation to Dr. Kendi.
Mukunda and Razib pick Abhinav Prakash on the farmer protests in Punjab. What's going on? Classs? Caste? Neoliberalism.
Razib talks to Karol Karpinski, an economist who was posted in Dhaka from 2014-2016. They discuss both economics and culture. https://twitter.com/karolkarpinski
Mukunda, Akshar, and Razib, discuss the issues of the day with one of Twitter's best Pakistani Nationalist trolls, Araingang. They discuss the origins of Hindu nationalism, the nature of Pakistani nationalism, and while most Pakistanis don't focus much on India.
https://twitter.com/ArainGang
https://araingang.medium.com/
Razib talks to a doctor about what it's like to work at a hospital overwhelmed by COVID-19.
Razib, Richard Hanania, and Josiah Neeley, talk about the USA election results, whether Trump will run again in 2024, cultural issues and minorities, and why Richard is not a fan of Peter Turchin's theories
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/
Mukunda and Akshar talk about Saagar Enjeti's personal evolution toward Right populism and the American scene in 2020. after the election.
Razib talks to Richard Hanania about his recent commentary regarding blasphemy, Islam, and France, as well as his op-ed arguing that civil war won't happen in the USA https://twitter.com/RichardHanania
Razib talks to Fred Martin, born in Haiti, and now French, about Islamic radicalism, racism, and the impact of the pandemic in France. https://twitter.com/fred_connection
Akshar, Mukunda and Omar talk to Ruchir Sharma on Modian Socialism. https://ruchirsharma.eu/
Razib talks to plant geneticist Devang Mehta and his problems with science, and how to fix it https://twitter.com/drdevangm?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Mukunda and Jahanara talk to Michael Fortner, professor at CUNY, and author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Razib talks to Abhinav Praksh on the Hathras rape case, its relationship to UP politics, and Dalit communities in the Gangetic Plain, and the tension between caste and region.
https://twitter.com/Abhina_Prakash
Razib has a wide-ranging discussion with repeat guest Jasper Gregory on the recent coronavirus wave in Vietnam, the fact that Vietnamese are white supremacists, as well as the impact of K-pop on the culture.
Akshar and Mukunda talk to two members of the Middle East Forum on the origins and development of South Asian Islamism, in particular its connection to the Deobandi movement.
https://www.meforum.org/
Omar, Mukunda, and Akshar talk to a Hindu traditionalist about the past, present, and future of the faith.
https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish
Razib, Omar, Mukunda, and Josiah Neeley, talk to Matt Ygleias about his new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. Does Matt believe in "open borders"? Is it worth keeping America #1? What does Matt think about the India-American relationship?
Check the website: https://www.1billionamericans.com/
Mukunda talks religion and culture with Abdullah Sameer, one of the most prominent ex-Muslims on the internet. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_H_lI-9qWdCiAq4AciqE4A
Mukunda and Razib talk to Robert Woodson, one of the drivers of the 1776 Project, which defends America's legacy against the 1619 Project.
https://1776unites.com/
Jahanara discusses Anand K. Kadali's project to curb hunger in India. https://annapoorna.org.in/
Razib talks to Anthony, a black American professional who lived in China, about racism in China and the USA, BLM, and the future prospects for the China-American relationship.
Razib and Mukunda talk to Desi-Rae, a Jamaican American independent thinker navigating a. world of identity politics.
https://twitter.com/desiraethinking
https://www.youtube.com/justthinkingoutloud
http://justthinkingoutloud.tv/podcasts
https://desi-rae.com/
Omar and Mukunda talk to Indian liberal, and BP reader, Guarav Lele. https://twitter.com/gaurav_lele
Omar and Mukunda talk to Dr. Ahmet Kuru on the nature of Islam's relationship to politics.
Razib, Omar, and Mukunda, talk to Tony, an expat Punjabi American who bemoans the present and future of India slouching Right...
Razib, Mukunda, and Omar, talk "Indian Matching" and Indian American life with Nikhil, Sima Taparia's cousin.
Razib and Kushal Mehra of the Carvaka tackle caste, and institution which neither are fans of. Is caste an evolutionarily stable strategy? What is it's genetic ramifications? Can India become a superpower with caste?
Razib discusses Sean P. McCarthy's economic Leftism, and whether he really dislike rich people. https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthyCom
What do you get when you cross a "Red America" right-wing populist with a religious North Indian Brahmin? Razib talks to one such person. https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson
Razib talks to international affairs and political science scholar Richard Hanania, and Arab American Christian with center-Right views on domestic policy and a non-interventionist view on foreign policy. The conversation ranges from Iran to India to China. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xJ-71I0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Akshar and Razib talk to Tarun of Odd Compass on Indian and Southeast Asian history, in particular the Chola invasion of Southeast Asia. The conversation continues to observations of world history. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZYcHFVksxNCwrUKgJMDyw
Razib talks to Rob Henderson, a young man who transitioned from being a foster child from a broken home to a graduate of Yale. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/opinion/foster-child-conservative.html
Razib, Mukunda, and Suraj, begin the discussion on what it's like to be very dark-skinned as an Indian, and continue to talk about multiculturalism, aesthetic standards, and Indian self-image (also, Iyer vs. Iyengar beefs).
Razib talks with Abhinav Prakash on growing up in UP, the BJP's economic policies, Hindu-Muslim relations, and caste in Indian society. https://twitter.com/Abhina_Prakash
Cross-post from https://www.bigbrownarmy.com/
Razib and Decruz talk about being Indian, Christian, and wokeness
Hash Gupta returns to talk to Mukunda, Akshar, and Omar, about the geopolitical implications of the recent conflict with China.
Razib and Kushal Mehra hash out where they stand on religion as a cultural and scientific phenomenon.
Razib discusses a wide range of topics with Neha Srivastava, from what she means by Dharmic, Abrahamic religions, her observations of America politics, her attitude toward China, and her nonprofit. https://twitter.com/neha_aks https://shaktitva.org/ https://twitter.com/shaktitva https://www.facebook.com/shaktitva
Introducing a new podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abcd-politics/id1516647460
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9zdXJ5YXNheXMuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC9hYmNkcG9saXRpY3M
https://suryasays.com/feed/podcast/abcdpolitics
Introducing a new podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abcd-politics/id1516647460
https://suryasays.com/feed/podcast/abcdpolitics
Razib discusses riots, America, and yes, Mongolian Nazis, with Australian Richard Alexander.
Razib discusses Christopher Beckwith's The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia with Jasper Gregory.
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra fields questions from Omar, Akshar, and Mukunda, on his intellectual history, defense, and Indian history.
Razib follows up with a guest from Verona, Italy, and what the situation on the ground in Italy is like.
Razib talks to internet personality Yeyo about Sweden's different strategy in relation to COVID-19.
Venkat Dhulipala talks about this book, Creating a New Medina. In it, he examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere.
Razib talks to Carl Zha about the serious issue of the China-USA Cold War, and also Carl's impending marriage to a Balinese Hindu. https://silknsteel.podbean.com/
Razib and Kushal Mehra, the "Carvaka", discuss COVID-19 and India, and the end of the lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPxuul6zSLAfKSsm123Vww
Razib and Sagar talk about the new Chris Hemsworth action flick, set in India and Bangladesh.
Razib talks to Jasper Gregory, and American settled in Danang, Vietnam, about how that nations has dealt with coronavirus, its history with the United States, and its place in broader Southeast Asia. https://twitter.com/jaspergregory
Razib and Josiah Neeley talk to a participant in the Stanford Santa Clara county study which reported that COVID-19 was far less dangerous than we had thought. They talk about why the study design was probably generating an artifactual result.
Twitter thread from participant: https://twitter.com/mattmcnaughton/status/1252584952094310406
The study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1
Amit and Amey, two Indians living in America, explain why they don't like the term "South Asian", and other observations of the brown American scene...
A wide-ranging discussion with Camilo Gomez, a left-wing Peruvian libertarian on coronavirus, race & culture, and predictions about Latin American politics.
Amrut Pati talks about https://www.swabforindia.com/, and his attempt to save his father's life!
Akshar, Mukunda, Omar discuss geopolitics with Jacob Shapiro, late of Geopolitical Futures. In a convivial fashion!
Omar, Razib, Akash, Mukunda and Kushal talk about what's going on with the lockdown and coronavirus in India.
Razib talks to Phil Lemoine on promising developments in the fight against coronavirus in Europe. Also, talk about the Imperial College model https://necpluribusimpar.net/are-we-headed-toward-an-unprecedented-public-health-disaster/
The gang talks to Harsh Gupta about Hindu nationalism and prospects for the Indian economy. https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan
Daniel Falush is a bacterial geneticist who lives in Shanghai. He has written about coronavirus at his blog http://paintmychromosomes.blogspot.com/
We talk the GRE, Bo Winegard, Evolutionary Anthropology and Academia. Citations: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfrbmubwfhvha8m/GRE.docx?dl=0
Omar and Mukunda talk to Francois Gautier, a French Catholic journalist living in India.