Episode7: South of India from 200 BC to 500 AD
Maneesh talks to Jay and Shrikanth on the history of Southern India for the period 200 BC to 500 AD
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Brown Pundits
A discussion about all things brown, aka desi or South Asian.
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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.
The war in Ukraine, part 1
Omar, Amey, Conrad Barwa and Karol discuss the war in Ukraine (part 1 of 2).
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.
Major Amin on the Ukraine crisis
Omar and Major Amin discuss what's going on Ukraine with the invasion of Russia.
Conversation with Salman Rashid
In this episode of Browncast, 3 ethnic Punjabis - Omar, Maneesh and Salman Rashid have a free wheeling discussion.
Conversation with Indic Explorer
In this podcast Mukunda and Omar chat with theindicexplorer (@theindicexplor1) /. Indic explorer is is pretty active on Club house
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...
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/
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...
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.
Both sides of the Aryan debate
Razib, Gaurav, Mukunda, Kushal Mehra from Carvaka, and Kartik Mohan discuss both sides of the Aryan debate.
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 ...
Episode 2- Indian history through genetics
In this episode, Razib Khan explains the revolution in genomics and how it helps us reconstruct facets of Indian prehistory.
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.
Rahul Pandita on Kashmir
Omar and Gaurav chat with author and journalist Rahul Pandita about Kashmir, pogroms, Maoists, the Indian state, ethnic cleansing etc.
Ambassador Kamran Shafi
Omar talks to Major Kamran Shafi, former press secretary to Benazir Bhutto and former Ambassador to Cuba
Surya Yalamanchilli on the Virginia elections, American politics, and the Indian economy and culture
Razib talks to Surya about politics and culture, both in the USA and India. Special focus on the November election in Virginia.
Major Amin on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the India-China conflict
Omar Ali talks to Major Amin to discuss the current Pakistan-Afghanistan and India-China conflict.
Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar, from physics to philosophy
Mukunda talks to Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar about his intellectual project using the tools of science and philosophy to pursue truth.
Sheena Mason: decolonization, anti-racism and literature
Mukunda and Shahada have a wide-ranging discussion with D r. Sheena Mason on race, literature, and culture.
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.
Obscure tribes and the Indus Valley with Peter Nimitz
Akshar and Razib chat with the prolific history twitter user Peter Nimitz about obscure tribes, the Indus Valley, and historical anomalies.
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.
Interview with Wahid Majrooh, Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan
Mukunda sites down to have a sober conversation with the former Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, Wahid Moorjah .
A conversation with an Afghan activist, Pashtana Durrani
Mukunda and Shahada have a long discussion on a timely topic: Afghanistan. But this time, they talk with an Afghan activist.
Shazia Ilmi, the national spokesperson for the BJP
Mukunda and Guarav have a long discussion with Shazia Ilmi , a spokesperson for the BJP, and former journalist.
Major Amin on the coming anarchy
Major Amin expresses his unvarnished views on the "age of strategic anarchy" in Afghanistan...
An Indian, a Pakistani and a World Bank bureaucrat opine on Afghanistan
Omar Ali, Amey and Karol talk about Afghanistan and what it means for India.
Khushnood Nabizada on Afghanistan in the time of the Taliban
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/...