The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s ‘Elephants in the Fog’ is a reminder of the gap between legal change and lived reality for the country’s transgender community
Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to respond has been compromised by its geopolitical divisions
Anuradha Roy’s new book chronicles more than two decades of life in a hill station in the Indian Himalaya, where the pleasures of home and the allure of the mountains are inseparable from ecological crisis
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
A writer reflects on a near miss with the flash flood and the precarity of life in Nepal amid climate change and inept government
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
T Dharmaraj’s book traces historical fault lines in Tamil society, offering a provocative account of both the 2017 jallikattu protests and Vijay’s political rise that goes beyond conventional Dravidian and left narratives
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
