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Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23

Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet they have been alienated by India, the veteran journalist says

By The Editors

/ 12 May 2025

Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23

Rahul Bhatia on India’s turn towards authoritarianism: Southasia Review of Books podcast #22

A conversation with the Mumbai-based journalist on the roots of Hindutva, the proliferation of Aadhaar and the surprising origins of India’s identification project

By The Editors

/ 21 Apr 2025

A large group of women are sitting together, wearing masks of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's face, participating in a peaceful

Non-violent vegetarianism, holy cows and other myths

Three new books unpack the violent roots of caste-based vegetarianism and India’s dairy industry as Dalits and Muslims continue to be targeted by cow-protection vigilantes

By Sohel Sarkar

/ 11 Feb 2025

Non-violent vegetarianism, holy cows and other myths

State of Southasia #15: Sana Batool on anti-Shia violence in Pakistan

Journalist and researcher Sana Batool discusses the persecution of Shia Muslims in Pakistan and the apathy of the majority Sunni community

By The Editors

/ 16 Dec 2024

Hundreds gather in Peshawar to protest the militant attack on Shia Muslims in Parachinar on 21 November.

Maharashtra’s voters are reduced to choosing between two brands of odious Hindutva

Maharashtra’s politics has been pushed so far to the right that progressive voices are endorsing the Maha Vikas Aghadi – which includes Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of the Shiv Sena, with its history of Hindutva vigilantism

By Imaad ul Hasan

/ 19 Nov 2024

Maharashtra politician Uddhav Thackeray, wearing a beige kurta, stands in front of a mike with his arms spread out. In the ba

Southasia Review of Books podcast #10: Zara Chowdhary on ‘The Lucky Ones’ and surviving the violence of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom

A conversation with the writer Zara Chowdhary on her debut memoir ‘The Lucky Ones’, exploring the past of her multigenerational Muslim family and reckoning with a sense of unbelonging within one’s own home and state

By The Editors

/ 28 Oct 2024

In her memoir, Zara Chowdhary recounts visiting the Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad with her grandfather, where Ahmad Shah I, the fi

Sri Lankan Muslims’ lasting pain over Covid-era forced cremations

The ‘Oddamavadi’ project, comprising a book and documentary film, takes on a shameful chapter in Sri Lanka’s recent history when Muslims were barred from burial in violation of their religious beliefs

By Adilah Ismail

/ 26 Oct 2024

A still from the documentary ‘Oddamavadi’, where a mourner dressed in a grey shirt and black pants walks through an overgrown

State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule

Veteran journalist and Afghanistan analyst Kate Clark explains how Afghan people have been living under the Taliban’s ultra-conservative rule while grappling with global isolation and a crumbling economy

By The Editors

/ 26 Aug 2024

State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule

Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit on her history of a working-class Muslim woman in India

In ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian’, Neha Dixit studies the past 30 years of inequalities and majoritarianism in urban India through the eyes of a Muslim migrant woman

By The Editors

/ 12 Aug 2024

Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit on her history of a working-class Muslim woman in India

State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s project of hate in India

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

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 2024

State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s project of hate in India

Modi could squander an unprecedented chance at normalising India–Pakistan ties

Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalisation and trade with India – but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, beholden to anti-Muslim politics, is failing to seize the chance

By Salman Rafi Sheikh

/ 10 Apr 2024

Modi could squander an unprecedented chance at normalising India–Pakistan ties

The persistent risks of love across social norms in India

Couples in inter-caste and inter-faith relationships continue to battle discriminatory societal attitudes and legislation – and the Uniform Civil Code could make things worse

By Ankush Pal and Alfiya Azeem Khan

/ 2 Apr 2024