Brown Pundits

It's 2024 and Major Amin shares his thoughts on what's happening with Dr Omar Ali. 

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.

Mukunda and Omar talk to Vineet on Indic Modernity.

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

It's election time in and Maneesh speaks to Dr Omar Ali on the latest in Pakistan

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.