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🪖🇲🇲 On the ground for Myanmar's election - Southasia Weekly #100

India denies bail to student activists held under anti-terror laws, Bangladesh suspends visa services in India, Southasia Weekly's 100th issue and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 9 Jan 2026

Southasia Weekly - 9 January 2026. One hundred issues in, Southasia Weekly remains a commitment to slow, careful cross border

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 31 December 2025

Top reviews of 2025, India's culinary capitals, Tibetan sacred art, and more

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 6 Jan 2026

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 31 December 2025

🇧🇩☪️ Seismic drama in Bangladesh’s politics – Southasia Weekly #99

New political alliance between Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen’s Party, flooding in Afghanistan, Myanmar’s elections and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 2 Jan 2026

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🇲🇲 🪖The “general’s election” in Myanmar – Southasia Weekly #98

Myanmar election, mob violence in Bangladesh, Imran Khan sentenced for corruption and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 29 Dec 2025

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🇧🇩🔥Bangladesh burning – Southasia Weekly #97

BNP leader Tarique Rahman’s return, the Kerala sexual assault case, over 200 people charged with violating election law in Myanmar and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 22 Dec 2025

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📚 Southasia Review of Books - 17 December 2025

New from Amitav Ghosh, feminist lives in Nepal, and more

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 22 Dec 2025

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 17 December 2025

📖✒️ “Arundhati Roy’s own life is really her great subject”: Supriya Nair speaks on ‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’

The Mumbai-based writer and editor Supriya Nair takes us through Arundhati Roy’s memoir of love, loyalty and the larger-than-life Mrs Roy

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 22 Dec 2025

📖✒️ “Arundhati Roy’s own life is really her great subject”: Supriya Nair speaks on ‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’

💯 for Himal – Power Southasian journalism into 2026!

Our small team made a big splash this year. Now we need 100 new Patrons to cap off 2025.

By Roman Gautam

/ 17 Dec 2025

🚲🌇The problem with Southasian cities – Southasia Weekly #96

The politics of space in India and Pakistan, Khaleda Zia's illness and the crisis within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, renewed clashes along Pakistan-Afghanistan border and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 15 Dec 2025