Podcasts

Podcast: Rajmohan Gandhi on Gandhi and the RSS
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The Editors
This is part of the second season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
School children joined thousands of protesters against political corruption in Kathmandu on 8 September, a protest that ultimately resulted in the fall of Nepal's government. As an interim government is formed, GenZ campaigners are reminding everyone that they are not a homogenous group and that marginalised groups must not be ignored.
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The Editors
The poet Ujwalla Maharjan, law student Anjali Sah and climate activist Tashi Lhazom on how Nepal’s GenZ is not a homogenous group and the new Nepal must pay attention to the marginalised
Saffron Siege – The RSS at 100: a podcast with Harsh Mander
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The Editors
Harsh Mander hosts conversations on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s corrosion of India over 100 years
Two women are lighting candles during a vigil for the birangona in Bangladesh. Rows of white candles are placed on brick steps, their flames glowing warmly in the dark.
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The Editors
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War
Supporters of the former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo protest his arrest under corruption charges.
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The Editors
The writer and researcher calls the opposition’s show of support for Wickremesinghe “farcical at best and infuriating at worst”
Covers of Gujarati pulp fiction novels by G N Golibar, a stalwart of the genre. [‘Chhaya Padchhaya’, ‘Kaal Kundali’ and  ‘Raatrani’, cover illustration by N Manwar. ‘Alabala’ and ‘Janamteep’, cover illustration by G Sandhwani]
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The Editors
A conversation with Vishwambhari Parmar on curating and translating The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction, and uncovering the genre’s darker and more irreverent worlds in Southasian literature
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