2025 In Review

Himal Interviews: The deprivations of Indian Muslims
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The Editors
Development economist Amirullah Khan talks to Harsh Mander about systemic structures that have left poor Muslims as India’s most impoverished citizens
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Myanmar election, mob violence in Bangladesh, Imran Khan sentenced for corruption and more
The woman in the bathroom
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Romita Saluja
Ramrati was rescued after two years locked in a bathroom by her husband in Haryana. How did she end up there – and why did she go back to him?
A military tank and rows of military on Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. They are all holding the Myanmar flag.
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Ma Thida
A suite of repressive laws make the outcome of Myanmar’s 2025–26 general election a foregone conclusion, but the public and the international community are unlikely to accept the result as the ruling ...
Police stand in front of the torched offices of the newspaper Prothom Alo in Dhaka
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Cyrus Naji
The unrest that followed Sharif Osman Hadi’s death was 18 months in the making, as an unresolved revolution, selective justice and tolerated street violence steadily destabilised Bangladesh
Himal Interviews: Indian Muslims’ marginalisation and the myth of appeasement
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The Editors
Hilal Ahmed talks to Harsh Mander about break down in Muslim families, drop-offs in education, lack of social support and how the political class has failed the community
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