The SaRB podcast returns with Joe Sacco, plus this month’s Southasian publishing – from new books on Mughal history to Afghan memoirs and India's Paralympic movement
The acclaimed comic-journalist discusses ‘The Once and Future Riot’, violence as a political tool, and the controversy surrounding Penguin India’s decision not to distribute his book
Thant Myint-U’s new account of his grandfather reconstructs a lost era of postcolonial internationalism through the story of a Burmese diplomat who led the UN through the world’s most defining crises
Audrey Truschke's ‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking
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
Tamil writing under scrutiny in Sri Lanka, new books on authoritarianism and radical democracy, an Afghan memoir of food and exile, a landmark translation from Angika, and more from across Southasian publishing
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
