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The Bhima Koregaon case and India's war on dissent – Southasia Weekly #91
By
Raisa Wickrematunge
Zohran Mamdani becomes first Southasian New York mayor, Rana Ayyub faces death threats, Dhaka protests around July charter and more in our weekly regional newsletter
People gather at night around the obelisk commemorating the Battle of Bhima Koregaon, decorated with colourful garlands. Two men pose for a photo in front of the monument while another person takes their picture. One of the men wears clothing featuring an image of B R Ambedkar.
Politics
Bhima Koregaon, the BK-16 and cracks in Indian democracy
By
Uttaran Das Gupta
Alpa Shah’s ‘The Incarcerations’ examines the Bhima Koregaon case – as a symbol of how dissent and democracy are under assault in Modi’s India
📚Southasia Review of Books - 5 November 2025
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📚Southasia Review of Books - 5 November 2025
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The Editors
Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, Romila Thapar & Namit Arora on India’s past, and more
Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS
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Podcast: T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS
By
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.
🚩🔱The RSS’s 100 years of undermining secular India – Himal Virtual Cover, November 2025
Newsletters
🚩🔱The RSS’s 100 years of undermining secular India – Himal Virtual Cover, November 2025
By
Roman Gautam
In our podcast series ‘Saffron Siege’, Harsh Mander speaks to Rajmohan Gandhi, T M Krishna, Rana Ayyub and others about the RSS’s corrosion of India
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