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These songs do not die
By: Namita Gokhale

Could a region as varied as Southasia expect anything other than today’s dizzying cornucopia of literary creations?

The flaw in the crystal
By: Arshia Sattar

In today’s literature of the Subcontinent, there is no escaping mythology – nor should there be.

Fairytale on 12th Main
By: Anjum Hasan

Honeymooning
By: Aziz Sheikh

Asylum
By: Kiran Adhikari

Four poems
By: Hassan Dars

Works by Hassan Dars,* translated from the Sindhi by Mohammad Hanif and Hassan Mujtaba.

Helmand, how calm you flow
By: Bari Jahani

Translated from the Pashto by Mujib Mashal

On official duty
By: Navtej Sarna

In the dark
By: Rabi Thapa

Colours for a landscape held captive
By: Ranjit Hoskote

in memoriam: Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001)

A plain tale from the hills
By: Richard Simon

Eating bone
By: Shabnam Nadiya

Korbani blues
By: Shazia Omar

Seven lakhs
By: Shehan Karunatilaka

Swaying with the ainselu
By: Weena Pun

The aroma of Ambul Thiyal
By: Lal Medawattegadara

Afghan Women’s Writing Project

If something happens
By: Aruni Kashyap

Abominably

Pakistan : WOMAN´S RIGHT, FATHER´S WRONG

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Commentary

India/Bangladesh: Cement the relationship!

Region: IndianAid

Sri Lanka: Rajapakse brinkmanship

Art: ‘Lede (or get outta the way)’

Southasian Briefs

Round-up of regional news

Voices

Opinions from around the region

Report

A sorrowful microcosm
By: Ahmed Yusuf

Intractable conflicts at various levels of the polity in Pakistan are being ‘settled’ through violence on the streets of Karachi.

Silence and sacrifice
By: Iqbal Khattak

Inside the making of a suicide bomber.

Children on the frontlines
By: Thomas Bell

Beyond the dzong
By: Carey L Biron & Travis Lupick

Is Bhutan’s national language losing steam?

Sighting

When we came together
By: Teresa Rehman

Do the mahila samitis of Assam matter anymore?

Southasiasphere

A civilisation and its myths
By: C K Lal

Mediafile

Tidbits of the region's media
By: Chhetria Patrakar

Tapestry

What will survive of us is love
By: Kabita Parajuli

Arpana Caur’s retelling of the legend of Sohni and Mahiwal.

Review

Bookshelf

Spanking words
By: Roselyn D’Mello

How we see Afghan women
By: Taran N Khan

Profile

The prince of Fitzrovia
By: Padraig Colman

The Tamil poet Tambimuttu left a defining mark on the literary scene of 1940s London.

Sitar teacher of New York
By: Hani Yousuf

A decade after the attacks of 11 September 2001, how one musician’s experience has changed.

On the way up

Chapter One: The long breath of Gokarna Das
By: Kanak Mani Dixit

Table of Contents

September, 2011

A new lens 18 May 2012
	Satish Sharma describes a new visual language for the streets of Southasia....

Drawing conclusions 17 May 2012
	The row over a cartoon featuring Dalit leader Ambedkar shows a lack of critical...
By Rohini Hensman

The fighting Kachin 15 May 2012
	Burma’s recent reforms have brought no respite for the Kachin people.
By Brennan O’Connor

Clearing Korail 11 May 2012
	Dhaka’s latest slum demolition shows the full scale of the Bangladeshi government’s...
By Saad Hammadi

High Himalayan hype 11 May 2012
	Infatuation with Everest has inspired Everest-sized absurdities.
By Don Messerschmidt

Why separate? 10 May 2012
	A new book justifies Kashmiri secession, but the scholarly appraisal ignores...
By Rakesh Ankit

A cicada at the door 21 May 2012
	Fiction
By Deepa Bhasthi