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Why is it that Southasia is such a cauldron of disaffection, in comparison to the rest of the world? ...
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Why is it that Southasia is such a cauldron of disaffection, in comparison to the rest of the world? ...
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The mid-summer ferment
By: C K Lal
After the massive success of people’s movements during 2008, by mid-2009 Southasia seems to be burning under the pre-monsoon heat.
Mingora and beyond
By: Iqbal Khattak
The Pakistan Army has forced the Taliban to flee Mingora. But nobody else wants to live there now, either.
Fighting season
By: Aunohita Mojumdar
As everyone braces for a bloody summer, the new US administration has shaken up its top military command in Afghanistan. But is the continued focus on the military inter
The new old
By: Aditya Adhikari
The new coalition government in Kathmandu might be made up largely of the discredited old guard, but it has an opportunity to bring the country together through effectiv
Bad medicine
By: Sankarshan Thakur
Regardless of the new ban on the Maoists, as long as the Indian government remains better at talking about local-level welfare than doing anything about it, Naxalite rhe
The pagoda's repudiation
By: Larry Jagan
Once again, everything appears to be aligning against the Burmese junta, but once again it may not make a difference.
13th hotly debated Amendment and beyond
By: Jayampathy Wickramaratne
Even as post-war reconstruction and the healing of the wounds of hundreds of thousands of refugees must take priority, the discussions around the future of power-sharing
283,000 displaced
By: Dru Chandrasekera
No left in Bangladesh
By: Anwar Parvez Halim
Six songs and three dances: 'Behind the curtain' by Gregory D Booth
By: Prasenjit Chowdhury
The third Sikh ghallughara: 'Terror in Punjab' by Ram Narayan Kumar
By: Pritam Singh
Red-faced
By: Raja Sarkar
Will the left learn its lesson in West Bengal?
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On 2 July 2009, the Delhi High Court delivered a landmark judgement reading down the archaic colonial era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, thus decriminalising private same-sex relations between consenting adults. The reverberations across Southasia, make relevant a revisiting of Himal’s March 2008 issue: 'Circles of sexuality: the push for privilege, the danger of definition'. Read up on the legal status of homosexuality in the region and share in stories of sexuality, alternative identities and queer struggles for visibility and the cost of privacy. Also, find out how the yaysayers and the naysayers are reacting to the judgement.
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