As Baloch nationalism changed from tribal sardar-led, negotiation-driven politics to a human rights movement, it opened spaces for women like the BYC’s Mahrang Baloch
Spanning three decades and multiple linguistic worlds, Bhattacharya’s ‘Railsong’ writes India’s great events around the lives of its people – and not the other way around – reimagining the Great Indian Novel for the 21st century
A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in the millennia-long transformation of the Buddha’s dhamma into Sinhala Buddhism
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
Vijay’s rise as Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister has bamboozled analysts, and his political vision is hypothesized based on “punch dialogues” rather than ideological clarity
Set in Toronto’s Tibetan community, Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘100 Sunset’ captures raw realities of diasporic life in sharp contrast to the false glamour migrants project to audiences back home
Gyanendra Pandey’s new book reads the lives of India’s great 20th-century writers and reformers through the home, revealing how domestic life sustained gendered hierarchies even as they relegated it to the margins
An excerpt from the Balochi novel ‘Nazuk’ by Sayad Hashumi, translated by Fazal Baloch
