Brown Pundits

This post was triggered by an an excellent piece about the great Joseph Conrad in Prospect magazine. (Though I do think "anticipating t...

A long essay by Brooklyn philosopher Samir Chopra on the Hindutvadi school (not necessarily their term, or his) of Rajiv Malhotra and   Ba...

A translation (by Ruchira Paul) of Pakistani Feminist poet Fahmida Riaz's poem Aqlima (daughter of Adam and Eve) Audio in the poet...

A note about colonel Imam, sent by Dr Hamid Hussain. The writer is not identified (but is a Pakistan army officer). The lines in red are com...

A good, wide-ranging interview with famous Indian historian Romila Thapar. I did have a few random thoughts of FB and just copy and past...

Steven Pinker has an article in the Guardian about the continuing decline in violence within humanity as a whole. Last para: "Thou...