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.
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.
This week at Himal
This week, Burhan Majid writes about how India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower residents of Kashmir, leaving the union territory’s elected administration
A revised reservation policy brought in by India’s BJP-led central government attempts to shift Jammu and Kashmir’s politics to the ruling party’s benefit, and has left the union territory’s newly elected administration in a tricky spot
A conversation with the renowned writer and editor Jerry Pinto on Bollywood and the nation-state, the art of translation, and lessons of a life in literature and teaching
The peace activist Harsh Mander hosts conversations on Indian Muslim history and experience amid a crisis of Islamophobia and anti-minority hatred fuelled by the rise of the Hindu Right
The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation while altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as a political liability
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As India reveals massive undercounting of coronavirus deaths, a health journalist reminds us of the pandemic’s horrors and the Modi government’s terrible decisions that cost millions of lives
Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, marks many historic firsts for Kannada literature and offers an unflinching look at Muslim women’s lives in Karnataka
