Christianity - Himal Southasian

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: 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

Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17

Uncovering her maternal ancestors’ past rooted in the Bhantu identity, Jafri offers a rare account of the so-called criminal tribe, the circumstances of their conversions and the continuities of caste oppression in India today

By The Editors

/ 10 Feb 2025

Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17

The early story of Christianity in Northeast India

Colonial officers, venture capitalists and Baptist missionaries in the Naga highlands.

By Roderick Wijunamai

/ 9 Oct 2020

The early story of Christianity in Northeast India

Distant liaisons: Could the Church of São Brás in Gandaulim be a remnant of a 16th century Croatian colony in Goa?

Recently, during a week in Goa unwinding from city life in Bangalore, I decided to leave my spot on the Candolim beach for a day to search for the last

By Lora Tomas

/ 19 May 2014

Distant liaisons: Could the Church of São Brás in Gandaulim be a remnant of a 16th century Croatian colony in Goa?

Psychedelic Mr Claus

References in the Rig Veda can lead to spacey speculation ranging from Santa Claus to Siberian reindeer and their shamans

By Ted Riccardi

/ 1 Dec 2010

Insiders alongside outsiders

Mention the Indian Northeast and, for most, some searing images immediately come to mind. One of those, perhaps, is of a group of nude women protestors in front of the

By Teresa Rehman

/ 1 Oct 2010

The rationale of empathy

Mighty monarchs passed. Pious-king Yudhisthir too departed. This land did not go with anyone. O Ruler, The domain will not accompany thee. – Anshu Malwiya in Hariyali ke Akhetak Along with

By C K Lal

/ 1 Sep 2010

Indigenous symphonies

On 11 June 2010, a bright midsummer evening in Moscow, the spectacular crystal chandeliers in the opulent Hall of Columns are ablaze with light in celebration of Russia Day. It

By Vivek Menezes

/ 1 Jul 2010

No reform

Hinduism’s rigidity is forcing it to cede ground to Islam, Christianity and Buddhism

By Kancha Ilaiah

/ 1 Apr 2010