To mark the end of the year, we at Himal Southasian present a selection of our most-read book reviews of 2025. Together, these pieces reflect the breadth of Southasian writing and ideas we covered, and the kinds of critical conversations our reviewers helped spark over the past year.
Yasser Arafat (left), the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, with Indira Gandhi (right) in Delhi in 1980. India once saw the Palestinian struggle as a battle against colonialism not unlike its own freedom movement.
