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The rise of women’s cricket in Sri Lanka – Southasia Weekly #89

This week in Himal Estelle Vasudevan writes about her journey into sports journalism, which mirrors the rise of the Sri Lankan women’s cricket team, despite shortfalls in funding and

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 27 Oct 2025

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Podcast: Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis

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

/ 22 Oct 2025

Podcast: Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis

Podcast: Tanika Sarkar and Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women

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

/ 15 Oct 2025

Podcast: Tanika Sarkar and Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women

Dangers of the Israel-Sri Lanka nexus – Southasia Weekly #87

Last month, as we prepared to fly into Kathmandu, our colleagues from Nepal warned us to prepare for rain, and we packed umbrellas and raincoats. As it happened, we only

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 13 Oct 2025

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Podcast: Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on Hindutva and the RSS under Narendra Modi

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

/ 8 Oct 2025

Podcast: Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on Hindutva and the RSS under Narendra Modi

Podcast: Mridula Mukherjee & Vinay Lal on Savarkar, Golwalker and the RSS ideologues

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

/ 1 Oct 2025

Podcast: Mridula Mukherjee & Vinay Lal on Savarkar, Golwalker and the RSS ideologues

Podcast: Apoorvanand on the RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948

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

/ 24 Sep 2025

Podcast: Apoorvanand on the RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948

Podcast: Rajmohan Gandhi on Gandhi 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

/ 17 Sep 2025

Podcast: Rajmohan Gandhi on Gandhi and the RSS

The incomplete end of Nepal’s Hindu monarchy

Violent pro-monarchy protests reveal Nepal’s incomplete transition from Hindu kingdom to secular republic, with nationalist myths and India’s Hindu Right feeding into royalist resurgence

By Amish Raj Mulmi

/ 5 Apr 2025

Supporters greet Nepal’s former king, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, in Kathmandu in early March 2025.

Maharashtra’s voters are reduced to choosing between two brands of odious Hindutva

Maharashtra’s politics has been pushed so far to the right that progressive voices are endorsing the Maha Vikas Aghadi – which includes Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of the Shiv Sena, with its history of Hindutva vigilantism

By Imaad ul Hasan

/ 19 Nov 2024

Maharashtra politician Uddhav Thackeray, wearing a beige kurta, stands in front of a mike with his arms spread out. In the ba

The secret new faiths of Indian believers navigating harsh anti-conversion laws and repression

New laws prohibiting “coerced” religious conversions are added obstacles for people looking to convert from Hinduism in BJP-ruled India

By Sumaiya Ali

/ 27 Sep 2024

The secret new faiths of Indian believers navigating harsh anti-conversion laws and repression

Modi’s tussle with the RSS echoes old power struggles within India’s Hindu Right

The BJP’s reduced seat count after the 2024 election prompted rare public criticism from the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, offering a glimpse into the recurring power struggle between the two organisations

By Abhishek Dey

/ 20 Sep 2024