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.subs...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hussein Ibish talks about the middle east with Brownpundits
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep 202•Transcript available on Metacast In this chat our 2 Resident US citizens and 2 Indians analyse US elections and its implications
Nov 17, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast 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.y...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Omar Ali talks to Hussein Ibish about the current events in the Middle East.
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Oct 02, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Omar Ali, Jyoti Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman, Karol Karpinski and Razib Khan discuss the end of the Sheikh Hasina regime.
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Amey, Karol, Paulasta and Omari Ali react to the overthrow of Sheik Hasina as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Aug 06, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast KJ and Bansi dive into the captivating world of non-English, non-Indian cinema, exploring hidden gems and diverse stories from across the globe.
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's 2024 and Major Amin shares his thoughts on what's happening with Dr Omar Ali.
Jul 16, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 challe...
Jun 08, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Amey and Razib talk about a new paper, The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans , and its relevance to the origins of Indians.
May 14, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Mukunda and Omar talk to Vineet on Indic Modernity.
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Omar, Mukunda, Maneesh, Gaurav and KJ have a freewheeling chat on the upcoming elections in India.
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Omar and Maneesh talk to K Jayaraman on political movements and the political parties in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
Apr 05, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's election time in and Maneesh speaks to Dr Omar Ali on the latest in Pakistan
Feb 04, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Omar and Mukunda talk to Prof. Christine Fair on state of affairs in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and her upcoming book.
Oct 21, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Oct 17, 2023•56 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, Omar and Mukunda talk to popular author, columnist and intellectual Vamsee Juluri.
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Arun speaks to Maneesh on the history and evolution of Malayalam Cinema.
Jun 04, 2023•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Status update, May 2023.
May 12, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Maneesh speaks to Dr Omar Ali in the aftermath of Imran Khan's arrest.
May 11, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Apr 23, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
