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Shibli Numani’s imagined community
By Sumaira Nawaz
A 19th-century travelogue from northern India challenges colonial orientalism.
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The Southasian conversation: Arts on the streets
By The Editors
Conversations with a Maldivian photographer and an Afghan artist.
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Prayer of the crossing
By Torsa Ghosal
Cracked Earth
Explainer: Why embankments won’t solve Nepal’s flood woes
By Peter Gill and Bhola Paswan
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Well - read
Crossroads in Sri Lankan history
By Tamara Fernando
Cosmopolitanism as an antidote to the island's nationalist history.
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Mirrors
Shibli Numani’s imagined community
By Sumaira Nawaz
A 19th-century travelogue from northern India challenges colonial orientalism.
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People & Politics
Bahunvada: Myth or reality?
By Kamal P Malla
ARCHIVE: The Kathmandu essayist on the history of ethnic hierarchy in modern Nepal (1992).
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Gallery
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Fact sheet on Myanmar
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Before Democracy
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A dog in the fight
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Earthquake babies
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The aftershock
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Searching through the rubble
Grounded
Letter from America: Hindutva in Chicago
By Slok Gyawali
The World Hindu Congress in Chicago and the Hindu right’s plans to rebrand their ideology.
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Mediafile
Playing your cards wrong
By Chhetria Patrakar
On Twitter’s tepid encounter with caste patriarchy.
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30 Years of Archives
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Source: Wikimedia Commmons
Being queer in Southasia
As India decriminalises consensual same-sex acts, readings on LBGTQ issues in Southasia.
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Illustration: Marcin Bondarowicz
India’s crackdown on dissent
Readings on authoritarian politics in India.
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