2025 In Review

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New political alliance between Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen’s Party, flooding in Afghanistan, Myanmar’s elections and more
An illustration of TV screens stacked one on top of the other on wooden shelves. The screens are playing stills from Sri Lanka's former labour minister Mervyn Silva when he forcibly entered the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and assaulted the news director. Pictured is the angry crowd outside the offices, Mervyn Silva trying to pacify angry Rupavahini staffers and screengrabs of the news coverage.
The 2007 assault on the news director of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by Mervyn Silva, and the stalling of the investigation and case, remains a blot on media freedom during and af ...
Himal Interviews: The deprivations of Indian Muslims
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The Editors
Development economist Amirullah Khan talks to Harsh Mander about systemic structures that have left poor Muslims as India’s most impoverished citizens
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Myanmar election, mob violence in Bangladesh, Imran Khan sentenced for corruption and more
The woman in the bathroom
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Romita Saluja
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?
A military tank and rows of military on Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. They are all holding the Myanmar flag.
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Ma Thida
A suite of repressive laws make the outcome of Myanmar’s 2025–26 general election a foregone conclusion, but the public and the international community are unlikely to accept the result as the ruling ...
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