It's that time of the year: we at Himal Southasian have compiled a selection of some of our most-read book reviews for 2024, looking at a wide range of Southasian literature that deserves closer critical attention.
Civilians walk past a burnt-out bus in southern Sri Lanka in 1989, during the second JVP insurrection. The shock of the first, in 1971, turned the world of Sri Lankan letters towards the political, and invited the country’s anglophone elite to an unsparing interrogation of themselves as the insurrection’s target.
