Kashmiri Muslim girls wearing hijab hold a poster of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a demonstration in Budgam district in India-administered Kashmir on 13 March protesting his killing in US airstrikes.

03 Apr 2026

Protests in India-administered Kashmir over Gaza and the Iran war express international solidarity, but also resistance to the Indian state amid its repression and growing ties to Israel

LGBTQ+ community members protest against the 2026 Transgender Amendment Bill in Mumbai, shortly after the bill is passed through India’s Lok Sabha. The bill was then steamrolled through the upper house on 26 March, dismantling constitutional principles of self-identification and pushing the trans community in India into further precarity.

Politics

India’s giant step backwards on transgender rights

Ankush Pal

30 Mar 2026

The BNP government under Tarique Rahman must realise that, in modern Bangladesh, the economy has become the ultimate arbiter of political survival.

Politics

The BNP’s real test lies in Bangladesh’s beleaguered economy

Faisal Mahmud

27 Mar 2026

Culture

The demise of Buddhist philosophy in Southasia and its journey to the east

Shashank Kela

24 Mar 2026

Politics

Himal Interviews: The decades-long erosion of the idea of India

The Editors

02 Apr 2026

Dalit History Month

A shopkeeper in Delhi with a statuette of B R Ambedkar for sale. Six new books on Ambedkar examine his life and thought with sincere reverence as well as honest critique.

Who gets to write about Ambedkar?

Harish S Wankhede

28 Jul 2023

24 min read

Gulmi, 1966. At the peak of the Panchayat period, this man sings songs about national glory: "Hamro Tenzing Sherpale Chadhyo Himal Chuchura" (Our Tenzing Sherpa has climbed to the top of the Himalaya). Gaines like him traveled from village to village singing songs about contemporary events.
Photo: Carl Hosticka / Nepal Picture Library

Reframing the Dalit experience

Laxmi Murthy

22 Aug 2019

10 min read

Caste on the streets: Dhaka’s street cleaners, many of them Dalits, faced a grim future even before the pandemic

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

21 Jul 2020

8 min read

‘Dalit Voice’ and V T Rajshekar’s frustrated revolution

Ashik Kahina

05 Jan 2026

25 min read

Culture

The demise of Buddhist philosophy in Southasia and its journey to the east

Shashank Kela

24 Mar 2026

33 min read

A miniature painting depicting young Brahmins studying Hindu scripture, circa 1820. Tradition, in Ravikant Kisana’s telling in ‘Meet the Savarnas’, becomes training in hierarchy, where excellence from the margins is permitted only insofar as it does not unsettle the dominant-caste hold on knowledge.

Politics

Unpacking the Savarna state of mind in a caste-ridden India

Shainal Verma

11 Mar 2026

27 min read

Women pose with a cut-out of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, during a 2023 welfare outreach campaign in Guwahati. In the state of Assam, a life insurance programme meant for low-income households is at the centre of a web of fake deaths and forged documents, revealing the fragility of India’s welfare architecture.

Politics

The business of fake deaths in Assam

Snigdha Poonam

25 Feb 2026

15 min read

Himal Southasian

Kashmiri protests over Iran and Palestine are also protests over Kashmir

India’s giant step backwards on transgender rights

The BNP’s real test lies in Bangladesh’s beleaguered economy

The demise of Buddhist philosophy in Southasia and its journey to the east

Himal Interviews: The decades-long erosion of the idea of India

Dalit History Month

Who gets to write about Ambedkar?

Reframing the Dalit experience

Caste on the streets: Dhaka’s street cleaners, many of them Dalits, faced a grim future even before the pandemic

‘Dalit Voice’ and V T Rajshekar’s frustrated revolution

Books

The demise of Buddhist philosophy in Southasia and its journey to the east

Unpacking the Savarna state of mind in a caste-ridden India

The business of fake deaths in Assam