Episodes
Mukunda and Omar talk to Vineet on Indic Modernity.
Published 04/08/24
Published 04/08/24
Omar, Mukunda, Maneesh, Gaurav and KJ have a freewheeling chat on the upcoming elections in India.
Published 04/08/24
Omar and Maneesh talk to K Jayaraman on political movements and the political parties in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
Published 04/05/24
It's election time in and Maneesh speaks to Dr Omar Ali on the latest in Pakistan
Published 02/04/24
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.
Published 11/19/23
Omar and Mukunda talk to Prof. Christine Fair on state of affairs in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and her upcoming book. 
Published 10/21/23
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.
Published 10/17/23
In this podcast, Omar and Mukunda talk to popular author, columnist and intellectual Vamsee Juluri.
Published 09/28/23
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.
Published 09/13/23
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.
Published 07/19/23
Arun speaks to Maneesh on the history and evolution of Malayalam Cinema. 
Published 06/04/23
Status update, May 2023.
Published 05/12/23
Maneesh speaks to Dr Omar Ali in the aftermath of Imran Khan's arrest. 
Published 05/11/23
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.
Published 04/23/23
Dr Omar Ali speaks to Major Amin on the current crisis in Pakistan.
Published 04/19/23
  Dr Prakash Shah, Reader in Culture and Law at School of Law Queen Mary University of London, talks to Dr Ali on the framework of studying caste in India and it's colonial antecedents. 
Published 04/17/23
Chitra Iyer, Co-founder and CEO of Space2Grow, talks to Maneesh about Anti Child Trafficking, Digital Safety and making  Indians employable. 
Published 04/13/23
Shrikanth talks to Maneesh about the History of South India post Vijayanagar kingdom till the year 1857. 
Published 04/01/23
Maneesh is in a freewheeling conversation with Pooja Sharma, founder of The Sarvodya Collective. A NPO working to build awareness and allyship for Neurodiversity as a cause.
Published 03/27/23
  Prathamesh and Omar talk to Maneesh about Europeans in India.  This a precursor to a dedicated episode on the history of British in India.
Published 03/26/23
Omar and Maneesh talk to Aseem on Ecospohy and the challenges posed by Modernity.
Published 03/13/23
In this episode, we discuss the Rajputs - their origins, wars and alliances in the medieval time. The speakers are Jay Vardhan Singh, Gaurav Lele and Maneesh Taneja.
Published 03/11/23
Author of multiple books on Pakistan Mr. Tilak Devasher joins Maneesh, Somnath and Dr. Omar Ali to talk about his new book The Pashtuns-A Contested History. 
Published 02/26/23