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In the second installment of State of Southasia, our podcast with top Southasian thinkers unpacking key issues facing the region, host Nayantara Narayanan speaks with Ayesha
New books by the imprisoned founding editor of NewsClick trace his personal and political journey across two grim periods, and weave in insightful critique of science and technology
Political and military analyst Ayesha Siddiqa discusses the support for Imran Khan in Pakistan’s recent election, the formation of a new government under Shebaz Sharif and growing public disaffection with the military
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This week, Anna Vetticad writes about the Canadian documentary To Kill a Tiger, which is in contention for an Oscar award on 10 March. Directed by
For years, the Indian administration has selectively evicted people – especially Muslims – from lands regularised under the now-repealed Roshni Act, leaving some homeless and many others on edge
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We launched the Southasia Review of Books podcast, where we’ll be speaking regularly to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In our
Political monks have been clamouring for a blasphemy law, and the sacral component of the oppressive Online Safety Act gives the Sinhala Buddhist clergy the weapon it wanted
A conversation with novelist V V Ganeshananthan about the books that define her latest novel ‘Brotherless Night’ and women’s writing on Sri Lanka’s long history of anti-Tamil violence
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Prathap Nair’s stirring essay on Abraham Verghese goes deep into the writer’s ouevre, including his acclaimed recent novel ‘The Covenant of Water’. Nair writes
Many in Southasia earlier saw Indian secularism as an example for their own countries – but Narendra Modi’s mixing of Hinduism and politics has crushed India’s singular standing
This week at Himal
This week, we launched State of Southasia, a new podcast with top thinkers on Southasia discussing the most urgent issues facing the region today. In the
