Book recommendations from our contributors and Southasia’s prominent writers, translators, intellectuals and journalists.
Deconstructing the complex relationship between people and state in Bangladesh.
Isabel Wilkerson’s recent book fails to unpack caste, but hints at potential for new solidarities.
On meaning, storytelling, and memory-making in Kashmir.
A review of 'A Passage North' by Anuk Arudpragasam.
The cultures of fame, shame, and fear in Bollywood’s tryst with mental health.
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
On borders and maps as concrete sites of state violence.
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalaya.
What has to happen to the world for the animals to start talking? In S Hareesh's novel Moustache, a whole menagerie has something to say. Crocodiles seek revenge
Do political cabals and business cartels explain the woes of Nepali economy?
Zakariya Mohammed’s ‘Halal Love Story’ tells the story of resistance in the face of an omnipotent authority.
