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By The Editors

/ 4 Oct 2024

State of Southasia #10: Ambika Satkunanathan on Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s win and the landmark political shift in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka rejected the Rajapaksas and an entire political establishment in the presidential election, with voters serious about a break with the past, says human rights advocate Ambika Satkunanathan

By The Editors

/ 30 Sep 2024

Anura Kumara Dissanayake wearing a grey shirt smiles at cameras outside his party office after winning Sri Lanka’s presidenti

State of Southasia #09: Anna M M Vetticad on the gender reckoning in Malayalam cinema – and India’s film industries

Film journalist Anna M M Vetticad explains the landmark Hema Committee report and how it has sparked a reckoning over the discrimination and abuse facing women in the Malayalam film industry

By The Editors

/ 16 Sep 2024

A selfie of 13 women from the Women in Cinema Collective with Kerala’s chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is dressed in a w

Southasia Review of Books podcast #08: The Afghan women writers who bore witness to the fall of Kabul

A conversation on the collective diary of 21 Afghan women writers who offer courageous and intimate testimonies on the events of August 2021, life under Taliban rule and far from home in exile

By The Editors

/ 9 Sep 2024

The Shah-Du Shamshira Mosque in Kabul. In the immediate aftermath of the fall, Maryam, among the 21 contributors of the diary

State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule

Veteran journalist and Afghanistan analyst Kate Clark explains how Afghan people have been living under the Taliban’s ultra-conservative rule while grappling with global isolation and a crumbling economy

By The Editors

/ 26 Aug 2024

State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule

Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit on her history of a working-class Muslim woman in India

In ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian’, Neha Dixit studies the past 30 years of inequalities and majoritarianism in urban India through the eyes of a Muslim migrant woman

By The Editors

/ 12 Aug 2024

Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit on her history of a working-class Muslim woman in India

State of Southasia #07: Ali Riaz on how Bangladesh’s mass protests have already transformed the country

Political scientist Ali Riaz details how the Sheikh Hasina government has displayed absolute disregard for the lives of its citizens, causing the political ground to shift in Bangladesh

By The Editors

/ 29 Jul 2024

State of Southasia #07: Ali Riaz on how Bangladesh’s mass protests have already transformed the country

Shahidul Alam's dispatches on Bangladesh's uprising and the government's reprisal

Shahidul Alam, a renowned photojournalist, educator and activist based in Dhaka, has been documenting the protests and managed to get his dispatches out to the media despite an internet shutdown.

By The Editors

/ 25 Jul 2024

Shahidul Alam's dispatches on Bangladesh's uprising and the government's reprisal

Southasia Review of Books podcast #06: Vajra Chandrasekera on writing fantasy and science fiction from Sri Lanka

A conversation with the Colombo-based writer Vajra Chandrasekera on the current moment of Southasian speculative fiction

By The Editors

/ 15 Jul 2024

Southasia Review of Books podcast #06: Vajra Chandrasekera on writing fantasy and science fiction from Sri Lanka

State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s project of hate in India

The peace activist Harsh Mander says that hate crimes against Muslims that the Modi regime allowed and incentivised in its first two terms will not abate only because of the BJP’s recent electoral setback

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 2024

State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s project of hate in India

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By The Editors

/ 24 Jun 2024

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By The Editors

/ 18 Jun 2024