Politics

A collage of Southasian history and culture featuring monuments, carved pillars, ornate doorways and people around manuscripts and a large quill pen. The image combines architecture, sculpture and people from different periods and traditions.
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Arshia Sattar
‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking, while raising larger questions about the intellectual traditions ...
Himal Interviews: Rahul Bhatia on Aadhaar, the RSS and India’s democratic unravelling
A conversation with the award-winning writer and journalist on the surprising origins of Aadhaar, the afterlives of the 2020 Delhi violence, and the people still resisting India’s majoritarian turn
Himal Interviews: India’s politics of fear and division
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The Editors
The politician Manoj Jha talks to Harsh Mander about how the moral compass of India’s political class has been destroyed
A protest in Dhaka against civilian killings on the India–Bangladesh border. The view that India treats the border merely as a security problem with little regard for human life fuels deep public anger in Bangladesh.
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Shakeel Anwar
New Delhi continues to expect deference from Dhaka, but Tarique Rahman’s BNP administration has a stronger position in negotiations with India than previous Bangladesh governments
Image of an old map of Chagos islands superimposed with Chagossians returning home, Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu, the Seychelles governor responsible for displacing Chagossians and military installations on Diego Garcia.  
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Daniel Bosley
Under Mohamed Muizzu, the Maldives is contesting Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos archipelago, inserting itself into a geopolitical dispute also involving the United Kingdom and United States
A regular among India’s literati, the novelist and commentator Manu Joseph thrives on elite access, simultaneously courting and critiquing the liberal circles whose attention he commands.
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Diya Isha
How Manu Joseph’s ‘Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us’ falls short in diagnosing the ills of liberal India, and how the novelist turned provocateur has lost his way
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