Brown Pundits

Tale of Two Professors Hamid Hussain “The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”  A...

Israeli scholar Martin Kramer has written an interesting essay about the decline (and attempted rise) of  the Sunni Islamic position and as...

Mangal Panday – Film, Fiction & Facts Hamid Hussain   Mangal Panday – The Rising is a big budget Indian film and good research ha...

From Dr Hamid Hussain July 10, 2016 A query from someone whose great grand-father served in 54th Foot as private and spent a long time in...

This article  (excepts at end of this post) is a good summary of the (relatively reasonable Hindutvadi) arguments for regarding India as one...

The New York Times has a piece about the backgrounds of some of the young men who carried out the horrific massacre in Dhaka on Friday. ...

From our regular contributor, Dr Hamid Hussain. Several questions came my way regarding origins of Indian army and that resulted in fol...

Full Disclosure: I have not actually read every hymn in the book, but I jdid read multiple hymns in each of the 10 books of the Rig Veda. ...

I continue to see almost universal condemnation or hilarity or schadenfreude about Brexit in my social media circle. Literally NO ONE is in ...

Continuing with the random thoughts theme: 1. Indian History:  I think  this short piece  is a reasonably good summary of our current...