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
In a conversation on his new book 'Iconoclast', Anand Teltumbde challenges the hagiography surrounding B R Ambedkar, calling for a more nuanced reassessment in view of the ongoing oppression of Dalits in India today
In a conversation on his latest memoir, the Pakistani-British writer and activist reflects on decades of political upheaval, from neoliberalism in the West to turmoil in Southasia, and offers sharp critiques of American imperialism and Israel’s crimes in Gaza
