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
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
As Baloch nationalism changed from tribal sardar-led, negotiation-driven politics to a human rights movement, it opened spaces for women like the BYC’s Mahrang Baloch
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A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in the millennia-long transformation of the Buddha’s dhamma into Sinhala Buddhism
Set in Toronto’s Tibetan community, Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘100 Sunset’ captures raw realities of diasporic life in sharp contrast to the false glamour migrants project to audiences back home
Spanning three decades and multiple linguistic worlds, Bhattacharya’s ‘Railsong’ writes India’s great events around the lives of its people – and not the other way around – reimagining the Great Indian Novel for the 21st century
An excerpt from the Balochi novel ‘Nazuk’ by Sayad Hashumi, translated by Fazal Baloch
