Photo of India women's cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur batting as a Sri Lanka fielder looks on during ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025.

03 Oct 2025

With India's women's cricket team aiming for a first World Cup victory, the tournament could finally make the women’s game central to the country’s sporting culture

Protest movements in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, largely led by youth, have toppled three governments in three years. All three movements were similar in their negation of the status quo but also in their lack of a blueprint for the future.

Politics

The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings

Anupam Debashis Roy

01 Oct 2025

An art performance of laying down handprints in red paint on a white sheet to remember Black January which remembers journalist killings in Sri Lanka.

Politics

Twenty years later, Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah’s killers still remain unknown

Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma

23 Sep 2025

People wade through water in Pakistan’s Punjab province. By mid-September, at least 900 people had died and about four million were impacted by the floods that ravaged the country during the monsoon months.

Podcast

Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33

The Editors

29 Sep 2025

Video

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

The Editors

01 Oct 2025

Nepal’s Gen Z uprising

School children joined thousands of protesters against political corruption in Kathmandu on 8 September, a protest that ultimately resulted in the fall of Nepal's government. As an interim government is formed, GenZ campaigners are reminding everyone that they are not a homogenous group and that marginalised groups must not be ignored.

Podcasts

GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32

The Editors

15 Sep 2025

2 min read

Reportage

A social media timeline of Nepal’s Gen Z uprising

Sushim Thapaliya

19 Sep 2025

10 min read

Drone view of Nepal's parliament building on fire, with anti-corruption Gen Z protests on the streets before the complex.

Politics

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Roman Gautam

10 Sep 2025

7 min read

A man hanging from an ornate gate with a pirate flag hung on it as a white neo-classical building burns in the background.

Politics

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

Pranaya Rana

12 Sep 2025

17 min read

Anant Ambani, youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, oversees Vantara – an amalgam of the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust and Greens Zoological, Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre. As Anant’s ambitions to house animals at Jamnagar have expanded, India’s laws and regulations on wildlife have been weakened.

The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions

M Rajshekhar

20 Mar 2024

51 min read

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

The incomplete end of Nepal’s Hindu monarchy

Amish Raj Mulmi

05 Apr 2025

14 min read

An old black and white photograph of two men in white shirts and ties crouching on the ground near a tyre. The man on the right is holding a small container while the other on the left appears to be handling an object. The setting is a semi-enclosed space, with a white wall in the background and a leafy vine partially obscuring the left side of the frame.

Ranil Wickremesinghe in the hot seat over Batalanda torture site

Frances Harrison

21 Mar 2025

16 min read

Palestinian women mourn over the bodies of their family after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.

The Gaza apocalypse and India’s guilt

Harsh Mander

30 Mar 2025

20 min read

Saffron Siege: a podcast with Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander hosts conversations on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s corrosion of India over 100 years

Himal Southasian

The 2025 Women’s World Cup could be India’s biggest cricketing moment in over 50 years

The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings

Twenty years later, Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah’s killers still remain unknown

Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33

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

Nepal’s Gen Z uprising

GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32

A social media timeline of Nepal’s Gen Z uprising

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

From the archives

The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions

The incomplete end of Nepal’s Hindu monarchy

Ranil Wickremesinghe in the hot seat over Batalanda torture site

The Gaza apocalypse and India’s guilt

Saffron Siege: a podcast with Harsh Mander