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How the CJP protests have shaken Modi’s stranglehold over India
India’s Gen Z and the Cockroach Janta Party have transformed outrage over exam paper leaks into a nationwide protest movement challenging Narendra Modi’s regime, and shaken an ingrained fear of his government and the Hindu Right
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Neha Dixit
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S Shakthidharan’s memoir of Sri Lanka’s unfinished war and its afterlives
An Australian playwright of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, S Shakthidharan turns one family’s story into a meditation on Sri Lanka’s war, colonialism and migration, revealing how history is lived through home
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The Hindu nationalist remaking of transgender identity in India
Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while deepening exclusions along caste and religious lines
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Hritik Lalan
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Culture
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Swearing in Southasia
Linguistic and historical analysis of Southasian swear words shows that they act as a linguistic mirror, reflecting deep taboos and cultural prejudices as well as unexpected social camaraderie
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A Gujarati Dalit writer reckons with Gandhi’s fraught legacy
An excerpt from Chandu Maheria’s memoir, reflecting on growing up in Ahmedabad’s working-class chawls and the place of Mohandas K Gandhi in Dalit life and political thought
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Himal Fiction Fest 2026
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Nazuk – Himal Fiction Fest 2026
An excerpt from the Balochi novel ‘Nazuk’ by Sayad Hashumi, translated by Fazal Baloch
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