Brown Pundits

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.

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

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...

In this episode, Razib Khan explains the revolution in genomics and how it helps us reconstruct facets of Indian prehistory.

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.

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

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

Razib talks to Surya about politics and culture, both in the USA and India. Special focus on the November election in Virginia.

Omar Ali talks to Major Amin to discuss the current Pakistan-Afghanistan and India-China conflict.

Mukunda talks to Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar about his intellectual project using the tools of science and philosophy to pursue truth.

Mukunda and Shahada have a wide-ranging discussion with D r. Sheena Mason on race, literature, and culture.

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.

Akshar and Razib chat with the prolific history twitter user Peter Nimitz about obscure tribes, the Indus Valley, and historical anomalies. 

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

Mukunda sites down to have a sober conversation with the former Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, Wahid Moorjah .

Mukunda and Shahada have a long discussion on a timely topic: Afghanistan. But this time, they talk with an Afghan activist.

Mukunda and Guarav have a long discussion with Shazia Ilmi , a spokesperson for the BJP, and former journalist.

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

Omar Ali, Amey and Karol talk about Afghanistan and what it means for India.

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/

Razib talks to "Alex," a young man involved in the freethinker movement of Bangladesh. A revert to Buddhism, Alex speaks candidly about his dislike of Islam, his perception of Indians, and the state of tribal people in Bangladesh today.

Ani Zonneveld is founder and President of Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) . We debunk a few  stereotypes,  such as  patriarchy, feminism, LGBT rights, human rights and human rights. We discuss Sharia law & Hadiths and its construct and narrative.   Ani promotes an inclusive understanding based on the values of Islam, in terms of love and compassion

Gaurav talks to Debleena Biswas and Deepali Kulkarni about what happened in 1971 with the killings of Bengalis, and in particular Hindus, by the Pakistani army.

Sri Thiruvadanthai talks India and economics with Shrikanth , Omar , and Akshar .

Akshar talks to Guarav, our resident "Brown Pundit" in India, about what it's like to go through the "second wave" of the pandemic in India.