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Brown Pundits

Razib Khan•www.brownpundits.com
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A discussion about all things brown, aka desi or South Asian.
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Episodes

Pakistani politics today

Omar talks with Mohammad Taqi and Kamran Shafi about Pakistani politics.

Mar 26, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 188

Episode 6: North India from 200 BC to 200 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.

Mar 11, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 186

The war in Ukraine, part 1

Omar, Amey, Conrad Barwa and Karol discuss the war in Ukraine (part 1 of 2).

Mar 07, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 185

Episode 5- The Magadh Era: From Bimbisara to Ashoka

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.

Feb 28, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 184

Conversation with Salman Rashid

In this episode of Browncast, 3 ethnic Punjabis - Omar, Maneesh and Salman Rashid have a free wheeling discussion.

Feb 24, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 182

Conversation with Indic Explorer

In this podcast Mukunda and Omar chat with theindicexplorer (@theindicexplor1) /. Indic explorer is is pretty active on Club house

Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 181

Amana Begam Ansari on Muslims and Women in India

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...

Feb 18, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 180

Karnataka hijab issue

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/

Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 179

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

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...

Feb 09, 2022•2 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 178

Episode 4 - The Vedic Age

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.

Jan 31, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 176

Both sides of the Aryan debate

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

Jan 29, 2022•3 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 175

Episode 3 - All about IVC

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 ...

Jan 08, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 174

History of India Series : 30000 feet view

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.

Dec 12, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 172

Rahul Pandita on Kashmir

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

Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 171

Ambassador Kamran Shafi

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

Nov 07, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 170

Anti Hindu Violence in Bangladesh

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.

Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 165

Dr. Omar Ali on the idea of Pakistan

Maneesh has a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Omar Ali , a cofounder of Brown Pundits, about Pakistan and other issues.

Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 163

Major Amin on the coming anarchy

Major Amin expresses his unvarnished views on the "age of strategic anarchy" in Afghanistan...

Aug 29, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 159