Culture
India’s vanishing pasts
On the Idara archives' efforts to preserve Deccan literary, artistic, and historical cultures.
Sarah Waheed and Yamini Krishna | Jul 19, 2022
Productively ‘perverse’
Punjabi films of the 1970s-80s as a tool for resistance during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorship.
Nahal Sheikh | May 24, 2022
A Southasian filmmaker unlike any other
On Sumitra Peries, pioneering Sri Lankan film auteur.
Uditha Devapriya | Apr 19, 2022
“No Sasikala, please”
On the filmic representation of Jayalalithaa and what is lost in translation.
Lucky Issar | Mar 11, 2022
What has Southasia been reading: 2021 Edition
Book recommendations from our contributors and Southasia’s prominent writers, translators, intellectuals and journalists.
The Editors | Jan 13, 2022
The storyteller of Kovilpatti
On Ki Rajanarayanan, the father of Karisal literature.
Ashik Kumar | Nov 22, 2021
Requiem for a remembrance
A review of 'A Passage North' by Anuk Arudpragasam.
Khorshed Deboo | Oct 26, 2021
Shaking the melting pot
The role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.
Abhishek Avtans | Aug 24, 2021
The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
Megnaa Mehtta | Jul 26, 2021
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