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The state of surveillance
The Pakistani state is using terrorism as an excuse to curb freedom of speech.
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Whose media is it anyway?
Real freedom of expression is eroding fast in India.
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Freeing the fourth estate
In post-Rajapaksa Sri Lanka there is less restriction on the media.
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Web of control
How Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act impinges on freedom of expression.
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The business of news
How the editorial and factual veracity of news is being threatened.
Sukumar Muralidharan | Sep 18, 2016
Chronicle of a death not foretold
Our editor explains why Himal Southasian suspended publication in 2016.
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Looking for voices
The landscape of literary translation in India leaves much to be explored.
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