Nepal is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but lags behind in negotiating for international resources and technological support for adaptation, leaving its communities especially vulnerable
Welcome to the second edition of the Himal Fiction Fest, where we’re celebrating Southasian fiction in translation. Southasia’s rich literary tradition spans hundreds of languages, cultures, regions and
Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better path for India’s development
While India has hosted and rehabilitated exiled Tibetans, it sees Tibet largely as a tool to counter China and its policies have been reactions to the Chinese narrative
Three recent books demonstrate how dancers negotiate individuality and collective identity through their work, and how their gender and sexuality is controlled and reproduced by caste mechanisms in modern Indian society
Climate change is driving an increase in snakebites and envenomation deaths in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and beyond – and community-driven solutions are leading the fightback
Over the past decade, India has been slow to realise that Myanmar’s anti-democratic military cannot protect its interests in a country where the majority seeks a federal democratic union
After a decade of Modi’s reign in India, people in Bangladesh are angry at their government cosying up to a Hindutva regime in New Delhi and tired of India’s influence in their domestic matters
In exile from Sri Lanka and marginalised abroad, women who once fought in the country’s civil war are almost completely silenced – but through poetry some have found a way to speak out, to remember, to protest, to mourn and to heal
In ‘Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World’, Asoka Bandarage finds the sources of Sri Lanka’s present crisis and of the people’s struggle of 2022 in colonial underdevelopment and a warped global economic system – but solutions remain elusive
