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Year in review: Ten great Southasian culture stories of 2025
By
The Editors
A selection of Himal’s most-read articles on Southasian culture this year
Posters for ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ in Mumbai in 2014.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’s charms lent a deceptive lustre to its ultra-conservatism, which helped pave the way for the brazen misogyny and Hindu nationalism in Hindi cinema three decades later
Two men on a boat floating on a still lake. Photo is in grey scale. This is a photo from Indus Echoes, a film shot in Sindh, Pakistan.
By
Barrah Kunaan
The first Sindhi film released in Pakistan in 28 years reflects the decay of the Indus River and the stagnation of Sindh today
Three Pakistani weddings in times of war
By
Zehra Khan
One Pakistani family’s story of migration and survival across three weddings amid three conflicts: the 1971 Bangladesh war, the Kargil War, and the 2025 conflict following the Pahalgam attack
Captain Chamari Athapaththu raises her arms in celebration during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka Women and England Women at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday, 11 October 2025.
The success of Chamari Athapaththu and Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team is showing a new generation of girls where their dreams can take them, and opening doors to women in media and other adjacent fi ...
Photo of India women's cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur batting as a Sri Lanka fielder looks on during ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025.
With India's women's cricket team aiming for a first World Cup victory, the tournament could finally make the women’s game central to the country’s sporting culture
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