The past struggles of brown and black immigrants have brought improvement in racial equality in the United Kingdom – but recent books make clear that British liberalism’s claims of substantive progress are overly optimistic
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
Two recent books conjure up a society and polity in Tamil Nadu bound by a Dravidian consensus, but they fail to explore the economic and social contexts behind fissures in the Dravidian compact – especially when it comes to the Dalit question
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This week, Abha Lal takes a close look at C K Raut’s journey from scientist to separatist movement leader and eventually mainstream politician. Lal unravels
C K Raut has transformed from separatist messiah to Nepali parliamentarian – but can he deliver justice for marginalised Madheshis and preserve their faith in Nepal’s young federal republic?
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This week, the latest edition of the Southasia Review of Books podcast sees host Shwetha Srikanthan in conversation with author Siddhartha Deb. The discussion captures the
Mass protests and seething local resentment show that Islamabad continues to control and exploit the nominally autonomous region it calls Azad Kashmir, or “Free Kashmir”
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
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This week, we kicked off Himal's second annual Fiction Fest, with this edition celebrating Southasian fiction in translation.
The first story in the festival,
After the revocation of Article 370, Buddhist-majority Leh and Muslim-majority Kargil have united in protest against the BJP and the Modi government, demanding statehood for Ladakh and Sixth Schedule protections
Nepal is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but lags behind in negotiating for international resources and technological support for adaptation, leaving its communities especially vulnerable
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In the latest episode of the State of Southasia podcast, host Nayantara Narayanan speaks to Laxmi Murthy, senior journalist and the editor of an International Federation
