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/    

Brown Pundits

Karnataka hijab issue

    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          

Core Agenda and India as a Hindu State: Conversation with Arihant Pawariya

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  

roon on Wordcels and Shape Rotators

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.

Episode 4 - The Vedic Age

Razib, Gaurav, Mukunda, Kushal Mehra from Carvaka, and Kartik Mohan discuss both sides of the Aryan debate. 

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.

Episode 3 - All about IVC

In this episode, Razib Khan explains the revolution in genomics and how it helps us reconstruct facets of Indian prehistory.

Episode 2- Indian history through genetics

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.

History of India Series : 30000 feet view

Omar and Gaurav chat with author and journalist Rahul Pandita about Kashmir, pogroms, Maoists, the Indian state, ethnic cleansing etc.

Rahul Pandita on Kashmir

Omar talks to Major Kamran Shafi, former press secretary to Benazir Bhutto and former Ambassador to Cuba

Ambassador Kamran Shafi

Razib talks to Surya about politics and culture, both in the USA and India. Special focus on the November election in Virginia.

Surya Yalamanchilli on the Virginia elections, American politics, and the Indian economy and culture

Omar Ali talks to Major Amin to discuss the current Pakistan-Afghanistan and India-China conflict.

Major Amin on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the India-China conflict

Mukunda talks to Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar about his intellectual project using the tools of science and philosophy to pursue truth.

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar, from physics to philosophy

Mukunda and Shahada have a wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Sheena Mason on race, literature, and culture.

Sheena Mason: decolonization, anti-racism and literature

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.

Anti Hindu Violence in Bangladesh

A discussion about all things brown, aka desi or South Asian.