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Year in review: Ten great book reviews of 2025

A selection of Himal’s most-read book reviews of the year

By The Editors

/ 30 Dec 2025

Year in review: Ten great book reviews of 2025

Year in review: Ten great articles on Southasian politics of 2025

A selection of Himal’s most-read articles on Southasian politics of the year

By The Editors

/ 30 Dec 2025

Year in review: Ten great articles on Southasian politics of 2025

Himal Interviews: Indian Muslims’ marginalisation and the myth of appeasement

Hilal Ahmed talks to Harsh Mander about break down in Muslim families, drop-offs in education, lack of social support and how the political class has failed the community

By The Editors

/ 24 Dec 2025

Himal Interviews: Indian Muslims’ marginalisation and the myth of appeasement

Himal Interviews: Bulldozers, hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India

Afreen Fatima speaks to Harsh Mander about what it means to be Muslim in India, the punitive demolition of her home and the right-wing Hindutva project

By The Editors

/ 12 Dec 2025

Himal Interviews: Bulldozers, hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India

Podcast: Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 3 Dec 2025

Podcast: Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity

Podcast: Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 26 Nov 2025

Podcast: Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more

Podcast: Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 19 Nov 2025

Podcast: Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence

Podcast: Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 12 Nov 2025

Podcast: Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS

Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 5 Nov 2025

Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS

Ma Thida on Myanmar’s unfinished struggle for democracy: Southasia Review of Books podcast #36

As the Spring Revolution approaches its fifth year, Ma Thida, one of Myanmar’s foremost activists and intellectuals, reflects on the country’s political trajectory leading up to and beyond the 2021 military coup – and the people’s enduring fight for democracy

By The Editors

/ 3 Nov 2025

A protester wearing a face mask and cap holds up the flag of Myanmar during a Spring Revolution demonstration in Bangkok. The

Podcast: Akshaya Mukul, Kunal Purohit & Harsh Mander on RSS propaganda

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 29 Oct 2025

Podcast: Akshaya Mukul, Kunal Purohit & Harsh Mander on RSS propaganda

Podcast: Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 22 Oct 2025