Politics

Wife of missing Sri Lankan cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda, Sandhya and media activists at a Black January vigil to commemorate abducted, tortured and killed Sri Lankan journalists. The vigil is at Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo, and it is evening. The Buddha statue at the park can be seen in the backdrop. Sandya holds a poster of her husband's face saying 'Disappearance of Prageeth, government is silent' in one hand, and a candle in the other.
Sixteen years after Prageeth Ekneligoda’s abduction, his wife Sandya continues to fight for justice for him amid ongoing impunity for crimes against journalists in Sri Lanka under Anura Kumara Dissana ...
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 threat to Muslims is a crisis for India’s democracy
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The Editors
Mohsin Alam tells Harsh Mander that anti-democratisation of the economy has had a terrible impact on minorities and Muslims in particular
A miniature painting depicting young Brahmins studying Hindu scripture, circa 1820. Tradition, in Ravikant Kisana’s telling in ‘Meet the Savarnas’, becomes training in hierarchy, where excellence from the margins is permitted only insofar as it does not unsettle the dominant-caste hold on knowledge.
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Shainal Verma
Ravikant Kisana’s ‘Meet the Savarnas’ dissects dominant-caste notions of merit, intimacy and power, showing how caste survives beneath India’s claims to modernity
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