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🇮🇳 🤖 Reality check at India’s AI summit – Southasia Weekly #106

Hype vs reality at India’s AI summit, Sri Lanka eliminates pensions for MPs, explosions and a gun battle in northwest Pakistan and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 23 Feb 2026

Southasia Weekly 20 February 2026. The only way to see Southasia. Support independent journalism. Become a Patron today.

🇧🇩 🗳️ BNP landslide opens a new chapter in Bangladesh – Southasia Weekly #105

Bangladesh goes to the polls, Indian court sentences journalist for defamation, Pakistan ends T20 boycott and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 13 Feb 2026

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📚 Southasia Review of Books - 11 February 2026

New Sri Lankan fiction, Anup Mathew Thomas’s photographic Kerala, and more

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 12 Feb 2026

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 11 February 2026

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 29 January 2026

Romila Thapar on the emergence of a common Indian identity, and more

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 12 Feb 2026

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 29 January 2026

🇵🇰💥Bloodbath in Balochistan – Southasia Weekly #104

Insurgency in Balochistan, Assam chief minister targets Indian activist Harsh Mander, Southasia in the Epstein Files and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 6 Feb 2026

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🇧🇩 🕌 The Jamaat’s rebrand in Bangladesh – Southasia Weekly #103

A landmark EU-India trade deal, Sheikh Hasina’s first public address in Delhi, Nipah virus causes airport screenings in Southasia and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 31 Jan 2026

Southasia Weekly - 30 January 2026. Readers like you make Southasia Weekly possible. Support independent journalism. Become a

🇲🇲🪖 Spin vs reality in Myanmar's "general's election"

Himal's coverage of Myanmar's 2025-2026 election

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 26 Jan 2026

🐅🐆The human toll of big-cat conservation – Southasia Weekly #102

A split within the Taliban, Madhya Pradesh's tiger reserves, Kashmir-based journalists summoned and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 26 Jan 2026

Southasia Weekly -23 January 2026. The only way to see Southasia. Support independent journalism. Become a Patron and support

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 14 January 2026

An unsung giant of Gujarati literature, new Southasian fiction, and more

By Shwetha Srikanthan

/ 21 Jan 2026

📚 Southasia Review of Books - 14 January 2026

🇵🇰 🕳️ 🇦🇫 How Pakistan lost Afghanistan – Southasia Weekly #101

A landmark Rohingya genocide case opens, Pakistan's arms deals, Bangladesh approves indemnity for leaders of 2024 student uprising and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 16 Jan 2026

Southasia Weekly - 16 January. We cover Southasia like no one else can. Support independent journalism on Southasia - from So

Slow Journalism and “The woman in the bathroom”

We’ve just released a special podcast, Himal Footnotes, where I sit down with the independent journalist Romita Saluja to unpack her haunting investigation for Himal, “The woman in the

By Leena Gita Reghunath

/ 10 Jan 2026

Slow Journalism and “The woman in the bathroom”

🪖🇲🇲 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

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