This week in Himal
This week, Burhan Majid writes that India’s left liberal elite have worked to obscure Kashmir’s assertion of political rights and autonomy through a focus
This week in Himal
This week, Vihanga Perera writes about a new film Rani, which absolves the Ranasinghe Premadasa government of the murder of Richard de Zoysa, whose ghost still
This week in Himal
This week, Cyrus Naji unpacks newly released reports from the United Nations and Human Rights Watch, which critique the Awami League’s brutal crackdown on student
This week in Himal
This week, Sohel Sarkar reviews three recent books unpacking the violent roots of caste-based vegetarianism. Sarkar writes that vegetarianism in India continues to be framed
This week at Himal
This week, Devana Senanayake writes about the fight to decriminalise same-sex relationships in Sri Lanka, following the path of dedicated queer activists who continue to
This week in Himal
This week, Chintan Girish Modi reviews three recent books that discuss India’s position on Israel and Palestine, revealing the country’s calculated calibration of geopolitical
The delays, denials and obfuscations in the investigation into the Sri Lankan editor’s murder reveals continued impunity around the killing of journalists in Sri Lanka
This week in Himal
This week, Abhishek Avtans writes about the languages of tea-estate workers in Assam and Darjeeling, following the migration of diverse people to tea estates for
This week in Himal
Bangladesh’s relationship with Pakistan has long been fraught. Cyrus Naji writes that a tentative new frontier has opened up between the two countries after the
This week, host of the Southasia Review of Books podcast, Shwetha Srikanthan talks to Sadaf Wani on her new book 'City as Memory: A Short Biography of Srinagar'
This week, we follow the story of Sumit Nagal, the Indian tennis player who catapulted into the spotlight when he beat the higher-ranked Alexander Bublik at the 2024 Australian
This week at Himal
The ongoing violence in Manipur was aggravated by Biren Singh’s BJP-led state government, Sangmuan Hangsing writes. Using arrests, intimidation and repression against journalists to
