Politics

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
Himal Interviews: The pluralism and poetry of India’s past
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The Editors
The educationist, writer and activist Syeda Hameed remembers the first decade of free India as one of immense hope in this conversation with Harsh Mander
Himal Interviews: Anand Teltumbde on B R Ambedkar and the limits of iconisation
In a conversation on his new book 'Iconoclast', Anand Teltumbde challenges the hagiography surrounding B R Ambedkar, calling for a more nuanced reassessment in view of the ongoing oppression of Dalits ...
A schoolboy wearing a face mask and uniform walks past a colourful Sinhala-language mural featuring illustrated students.
Angela W Little’s book spans the original vision and contemporary debates around Sri Lanka’s system of free education, but fails to fully capture its intertwined dynamics of learning, politics and nat ...
Kashmiri Muslim girls wearing hijab hold a poster of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a demonstration in Budgam district in India-administered Kashmir on 13 March protesting his killing in US airstrikes.
Protests in India-administered Kashmir over Gaza and the Iran war express international solidarity, but also resistance to the Indian state amid its repression and growing ties to Israel
Himal Interviews: The decades-long erosion of the idea of India
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The Editors
The filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza talks to Harsh Mander about a civilisational slide brought about by Hindutva ideas and politics
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