Politics

Himal interviews: Vauhini Vara on Big Tech, AI and digital selfhood
The writer and tech journalist discusses the limits of machine communication in an age shaped by Big Tech power, and the possibility of imagining different digital futures
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
Tarique Rahman’s BNP, which swept to power in Bangladesh in February, has dragged its feet on key reforms that it had earlier agreed to with other political parties under the July Charter.
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Maruf Hasan
Tarique Rahman’s administration has let several reform ordinances lapse, despite campaign promises from the BNP to prevent a return to authoritarian governance structures
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
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