Nepal Elections 2026

Himal Interviews: Rahul Bhatia on Aadhaar, the RSS and India’s democratic unravelling
A conversation with the award-winning writer and journalist on the surprising origins of Aadhaar, the afterlives of the 2020 Delhi violence, and the people still resisting India’s majoritarian turn
Tarique Rahman’s BNP, which swept to power in Bangladesh in February, has dragged its feet on key reforms that it had earlier agreed to with other political parties under the July Charter.
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Maruf Hasan
Tarique Rahman’s administration has let several reform ordinances lapse, despite campaign promises from the BNP to prevent a return to authoritarian governance structures
Himal Interviews: India’s politics of fear and division
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The Editors
The politician Manoj Jha talks to Harsh Mander about how the moral compass of India’s political class has been destroyed
Music and film are taking over the cultural position once held in Tibet by folktales, where the trickster Uncle Tonpa (centre) is a beloved and enduring figure. But the trickster of tradition has not disappeared – he has put on headphones.
By
Palden Gyal
In ‘Satirical Tibet’, Timothy Thurston shows how comedians and rappers are using satire as a tool of resistance under Chinese authoritarianism and surveillance
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Pakistan-Afghanistan airstrikes threaten ceasefire, the ban on Nepal film Lalibazar, Maldives police raids Adhadhu and more
Himal Interviews: Wendy Doniger on myth and many Hinduisms
A conversation with the renowned Indologist on how myths endure across cultures and traditions, why they resist fixed meanings, and what is at stake in attempts to control them
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