A conversation with the Indologist Wendy Doniger on her wide-ranging study ‘The Cave of Echoes’, the importance of understanding other peoples’ myths, and the Hindu right’s efforts to suppress the study of religion
After Pakistan’s military “win” in the May 2025 confrontation with India, the army under Asim Munir as field marshal has even greater power over the state, the civilian government and the judiciary
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
Operation Kagar, India’s escalating anti-Naxalite campaign in Chhattisgarh, leaves Adivasis reeling from repression, displacement, killings and other violence by state authorities and security forces
The economist discusses the impact of proposed US tariffs on exports, balance of payments and debt in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other Southasian countries
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
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This week, as part of our “Pills, Perils, Profits” investigative series on Southasian pharma, health reporter Vidya Krishnan writes that US aid cuts have exposed the
Alina Gufran’s ‘No Place to Call My Own’ seethes with a quiet anger of our times, where a young woman struggles with her own sense of self and belonging, and the restless anxieties of adulthood in urban India
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
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This week, Jason Stanley reflects that India’s fascist turn under Hindu nationalist rule has multiple parallels with global fascist tactics and history, including in Nazi
