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A detailed miniature painting depicting the Battle at Lanka from the Hindu epic Ramayana. The left side of the image shows Rama, his brother Lakshmana, and their allies including Hanuman. They are fighting the demon king Ravana, who is shown with ten heads and twenty arms, positioned centrally with his forces of rakshasas (demons) and war elephants. Figures are engaged in combat, wielding swords, bows and shields, while fallen warriors and animals lie at the bottom. The scene is bordered by a red and yellow frame.
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A conversation with the Indologist Wendy Doniger on her wide-ranging study ‘The Cave of Echoes’, the importance of understanding other peoples’ myths, and the Hindu right’s efforts to suppress the stu ...
Mohsin Alam Bhat & Harsh Mander on the threat to Muslims as a crisis for India’s democracy
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The Editors
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
Garment workers in Sri Lanka. Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have significant apparel exports to the United States and will be hit hard if by its proposed import tariffs.
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The Editors
The economist discusses the impact of proposed US tariffs on exports, balance of payments and debt in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other Southasian countries
Irfan Habib & Harsh Mander on the decay of socialism and secularism in India
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The Editors
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
Moving across cities and through her twenties, the protagonist of Alina Gufran’s novel is not fighting the doomed fight against a broken society in India and beyond. Instead, she’s confined by it, and she’s fighting mostly against herself.
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The Editors
Alina Gufran’s ‘No Place to Call My Own’ seethes with a quiet anger of our times, where a young woman struggles with her own sense of self and belonging, and the restless anxieties of adulthood in urb ...
Aman Wadud & Harsh Mander on the plight of Bengali Muslims in Assam
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The Editors
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
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