Nepal Elections 2026

Himal interviews: Vauhini Vara on Big Tech, AI and digital selfhood
The writer and tech journalist discusses the limits of machine communication in an age shaped by Big Tech power, and the possibility of imagining different digital futures
Nepal’s forgotten cultural revolution
Nepal’s civil war ended two decades ago, but the reckoning with the Maoists’ destruction of heritage and culture has barely begun
Himal Interviews: Witnessing communal riots from a Muslim ghetto
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The Editors
The journalist and writer Zeyad Masroor Khan talks to Harsh Mander about his childhood in Aligarh and the deepening communal divisions in present-day India
A collage of Southasian history and culture featuring monuments, carved pillars, ornate doorways and people around manuscripts and a large quill pen. The image combines architecture, sculpture and people from different periods and traditions.
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Arshia Sattar
‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking, while raising larger questions about the intellectual traditions ...
The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi bows with folded hands before a large garlanded portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, surrounded by flowers at a commemorative event.
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Ankush Pal
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral victory in West Bengal exposes the deep Bengali roots of Hindu nationalism and shatters the myth of secular bhadralok liberalism
A close-up portrait photograph of Arun Shourie, looking slightly upward against a plain dark blue background.
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Mihir Dalal
The most influential Indian journalist of his era, Arun Shourie traded repute as a leftist dissident to shape the intellectual scaffolding of the Hindu Right – and took much of the country’s elite wit ...
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