13 Jun 2025

A short story

Events

Himal Fiction Fest 2025: Southasian speculative fiction

The Editors

18 Feb 2025

A May 2008 protest against the abduction and assault of Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Politics

Will there finally be justice for Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr?

Shivanthi Fernando

12 Jun 2025

More Muslims live in India than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan. Yet, for the first time since India’s independence, its Muslims have been rendered electorally dispensable and therefore politically irrelevant.

Politics

The political erasure of Indian Muslims

Harsh Mander

01 Jun 2025

Events

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

The Editors

02 Jun 2025

From the archives

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

Sri Lankan speculative fiction lifts off

Gautam Bhatia

10 Jul 2023

20 min read

Residents of Haldwani, Uttarakhand and Jahangirpuri, Delhi say that the biased media coverage of the protests has led to misinformation on the issue and signals growing Hindu majoritarianism in India.

Demolition drives and the media target Indian Muslims

Sneha Richhariya

16 Feb 2023

1 min read

In April 2022, India saw communal violence across 9 states, resulting in 100 people injured and at least three deaths. The flashpoint was the same – religious processions marking Ram Navami, as well as Hanuman Jayanti. Photo: NurPhoto / IMAGO

Interfaith solidarity in the face of anti-Muslim violence on Ram Navami in India

Astha Savyasachi

05 May 2023

9 min read

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

The peace activist Harsh Mander hosts conversations on Indian Muslim history and experience amid a crisis of Islamophobia and anti-minority hatred fuelled by the rise of the Hindu Right

Himal Southasian

Artificial Emotion: Himal Fiction Fest 2025

Himal Fiction Fest 2025: Southasian speculative fiction

Will there finally be justice for Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr?

The political erasure of Indian Muslims

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

From the archives

The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions

Sri Lankan speculative fiction lifts off

Demolition drives and the media target Indian Muslims

Interfaith solidarity in the face of anti-Muslim violence on Ram Navami in India

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

Podcasts

JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25

Vidya Krishnan on how India's politics magnified its Covid-19 death toll: State of Southasia #24

Thomas Bell on a walking history of the Himalayan landscape: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24

Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23