A conversation with the Colombo-based writer Vajra Chandrasekera on the current moment of Southasian speculative fiction
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
A conversation with Siddhartha Deb on recording the histories of India’s present and the dystopian futures of climate crisis and authoritarianism in his fiction and nonfiction
Journalist and editor Laxmi Murthy examines the stark deterioration of media independence and freedom of expression in Southasia, and its implications for elections and democracies
In her latest book ‘Provincials’, Sumana Roy explores how writings from the peripheries offers an alternative portrait of the modern Subcontinent
Chandni Singh, an environmental social scientist, talks about why the extreme heat facing the Subcontinent this summer is unlike the heat of the past, and how we are entering a new regime of risk
A conversation with Taha Kehar on his latest novel ‘No Funeral for Nazia’, Pakistan’s publishing scene, bending the Southasian mystery genre, and more
Political commentator Aakar Patel compares the Modi government’s crackdown on the opposition to the managed elections in Pakistan and Bangladesh
A conversation with M D Madhusudan, Shibani Ghosh and M Rajshekhar
A conversation with the author Smriti Ravindra on her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’, and how it sheds light on the long-ignored topic of the Madhesi experience, particularly that of women
Political and military analyst Ayesha Siddiqa discusses the support for Imran Khan in Pakistan’s recent election, the formation of a new government under Shebaz Sharif and growing public disaffection with the military
A conversation with novelist V V Ganeshananthan about the books that define her latest novel ‘Brotherless Night’ and women’s writing on Sri Lanka’s long history of anti-Tamil violence
