Audrey Truschke's ‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking
Two journalists detained in the Maldives, India hosts BRICS foreign minister summit, Pakistan denies allowing Iranian military aircraft to park during negotiations and more
Tamil writing under scrutiny in Sri Lanka, new books on authoritarianism and radical democracy, an Afghan memoir of food and exile, a landmark translation from Angika, and more from across Southasian publishing
Himal brings you in-depth, critical views of the Dhurandhar franchise – and of the Hindi film industry’s growing embrace of the Hindu Right – from both sides of the India–Pakistan divide.
