2025 In Review

Southasia Weekly - 9 January 2026. One hundred issues in, Southasia Weekly remains a commitment to slow, careful cross border journalism. Become a Patron and support us!
India denies bail to student activists held under anti-terror laws, Bangladesh suspends visa services in India, Southasia Weekly's 100th issue and more
Composite image of Myanmar military junta looming over an electronic voting machine with election posters on the top right, and a stained glass pattern in the background.
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Ben Dunant
Ground reporting of the 2025-26 election reveals that voters only hope for a slight lifting of the military’s boot in a race with virtually no political opposition
Himal Interviews: How Pakistan’s partisan politics empowers its military
By
The Editors
Ayesha Jalal on Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment and how former prime minister Imran Khan was used by the military to undermine democratic momentum
‘Dalit Voice’ and V T Rajshekar’s frustrated revolution
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Ashik Kahina
V T Rajshekhar deployed ‘Dalit Voice’ in an assault on the caste system, amplifying Ambedkar and exposing both the Brahminical enemies of Indian democracy and its Brahminical guardians
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New political alliance between Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen’s Party, flooding in Afghanistan, Myanmar’s elections and more
An illustration of TV screens stacked one on top of the other on wooden shelves. The screens are playing stills from Sri Lanka's former labour minister Mervyn Silva when he forcibly entered the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and assaulted the news director. Pictured is the angry crowd outside the offices, Mervyn Silva trying to pacify angry Rupavahini staffers and screengrabs of the news coverage.
The 2007 assault on the news director of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by Mervyn Silva, and the stalling of the investigation and case, remains a blot on media freedom during and af ...
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