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🚲🌇The problem with Southasian cities – Southasia Weekly #96
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
The politics of space in India and Pakistan, Khaleda Zia's illness and the crisis within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, renewed clashes along Pakistan-Afghanistan border and more
Himal Interviews: Bulldozers, hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
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Himal Interviews: Bulldozers, hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
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The Editors
Afreen Fatima speaks to Harsh Mander about what it means to be Muslim in India, the punitive demolition of her home and the right-wing Hindutva project
People in rickshaws and bikes waiting in the Delhi traffic
Politics
The politics of space and infrastructure in Southasian cities
By
Sohel Sarkar
Four new books spotlight mobility in post-liberalisation cities across India and Pakistan, showing how everyday movement, inequality and aspiration shape urban citizenship beyond “world-class” infrast ...
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👩🏽📚How do we read Arundhati Roy? – Southasia Weekly #95
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Sri Lanka’s disaster mismanagement after Cyclone Ditwah and more
Photo shows a rubber dinghy moving through high floodwater. A man in Sri Lanka Army uniform is in front, along with a volunteer in civilian clothes. There are two more male civilian volunteers in the back. The dinghy has a woman, child and man being rescued from floods. All three wear orange lifejackets. This is in Wellampitiya, Sri Lanka
Politics
Cyclone Ditwah and Sri Lanka’s disastrous flood mismanagement
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake repeats his predecessors’ mistakes in his response to flooding and landslides, which have caused hundreds of deaths
Arundhati Roy rests her chin on her hand and looks directly at the camera. She is seated indoors in front of shelves filled with multiple copies of 'The God of Small Things', whose covers are blurred in the background.
Politics
The memoir that changes how we read Arundhati Roy
By
Supriya Nair
‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’, Arundhati Roy’s memoir of love, loyalty and the larger-than-life Mrs Roy, puts into perspective a whole career of writing about the problem of belonging
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