Southasian sex workers defied the iconic feminist’s view of “prostitution” as “commercial rape” – and built a movement for their own empowerment
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
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
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
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
Ramrati was rescued after two years locked in a bathroom by her husband in Haryana. How did she end up there – and why did she go back to him?
