RSS - Himal Southasian

Himal Interviews: The decay of socialism and secularism in India

The historian Irfan Habib talks to Harsh Mander about how the Hindu right is manufacturing the subcontinent’s history, with the support of the BJP leadership

By The Editors

/ 18 Feb 2026

Himal Interviews: The decay of socialism and secularism in India

Himal interviews: Media-fuelled Islamophobia in India

Journalist Seema Chishti speaks to Harsh Mander about events from the Babri Masjid demolition to phenomena like the love jihad fallacy

By The Editors

/ 14 Jan 2026

Himal interviews: Media-fuelled Islamophobia in India

Podcast: Felix Pal, Christophe Jaffrelot, Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s hidden network

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 7 Jan 2026

Podcast: Felix Pal, Christophe Jaffrelot, Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s hidden network

Podcast: Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 3 Dec 2025

Podcast: Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity

Podcast: Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 26 Nov 2025

Podcast: Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more

Pakistan’s military authoritarianism - again – Southasia Weekly #93

Pakistan's 27th amendment, Sheikh Hasina's death sentence, the Global Shining Light Award and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 24 Nov 2025

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Podcast: Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 19 Nov 2025

Podcast: Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence

Podcast: Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 12 Nov 2025

Podcast: Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS

The Bhima Koregaon case and India's war on dissent – Southasia Weekly #91

Zohran Mamdani becomes first Southasian New York mayor, Rana Ayyub faces death threats, Dhaka protests around July charter and more in our weekly regional newsletter

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 10 Nov 2025

Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 5 Nov 2025

Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS

More mass graves and open wounds in Sri Lanka – Southasia Weekly #90

This week in Himal Ingrid Massagé writes about ongoing exhumations at a mass grave site in Chemmani, in northern Sri Lanka, drawing from her experiences as an observer of the

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 3 Nov 2025

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Podcast: Akshaya Mukul, Kunal Purohit & Harsh Mander on RSS propaganda

This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.

By The Editors

/ 29 Oct 2025