The recent film rendition of the play Tasher Desh offers a radically different take and is among many attempts to reinterpret Tagoreana.
Are Satyajit Ray’s films still relevant today?
Filmmaker, researcher, writer and activist Tanuja Thurairajah discusses the need to take a sharp lens approach to Sri Lankan history.
An unearthed file gives new insight into Saadat Hasan Manto and his short story ‘Bu’.
Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.
The daughter of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the Subcontinent's iconic bard, discovers letters exchanged by her mother and father.
Shashank Kela speaks about his new book, A Rogue and Peasant Slave: 200 years of Adivasi Resistance.
A diarist, an icon, a victim – and above all, still a child.
Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi.
Pushpa Basnet, the 2012 CNN Hero of the Year, talks to Himal.
Nepal has seen tumultuous political and social changes since the 1960s – changes which continue today as the country grapples with the task of formulating a new constitution that reflects new
Discovering Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali, and the homeland that he knew.
