Culture
Queer notes on Begum Akhtar
Caste, sexuality and tawaif subcultures in postcolonial India.
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Still standing
Old Delhi’s Hazrat Shah Waliullah Public Library.
Oohini Mukherjee and Zeeshan Kaskar | Oct 04, 2022
Of jujube vines, maishals and Kamatapur
Reading Rajbanshi poetry in English.
Rini Barman | Sep 06, 2022
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
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