Politics

People in rickshaws and bikes waiting in the Delhi traffic
By
Sohel Sarkar
Four new books spotlight mobility in post-liberalisation cities across India and Pakistan, showing how everyday movement, inequality and aspiration shape urban citizenship beyond “world-class” infrast ...
Arundhati Roy rests her chin on her hand and looks directly at the camera. She is seated indoors in front of shelves filled with multiple copies of 'The God of Small Things', whose covers are blurred in the background.
By
Supriya Nair
‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’, Arundhati Roy’s memoir of love, loyalty and the larger-than-life Mrs Roy, puts into perspective a whole career of writing about the problem of belonging
Cartoon of a Nepali student protester wearing a red headband planting a placard with a symbol of an upraised fist on Everest, representing Nepal's Gen Z led protests
Cartoonist Gihan de Chickera’s top illustrations for 2025, from Himal’s Southasia Weekly newsletter
Himal Interviews: Indian Muslims’ marginalisation and the myth of appeasement
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The Editors
Hilal Ahmed talks to Harsh Mander about break down in Muslim families, drop-offs in education, lack of social support and how the political class has failed the community
Himal Interviews: Bulldozers, hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
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The Editors
Afreen Fatima speaks to Harsh Mander about what it means to be Muslim in India, the punitive demolition of her home and the right-wing Hindutva project
Photo shows a rubber dinghy moving through high floodwater. A man in Sri Lanka Army uniform is in front, along with a volunteer in civilian clothes. There are two more male civilian volunteers in the back. The dinghy has a woman, child and man being rescued from floods. All three wear orange lifejackets. This is in Wellampitiya, Sri Lanka
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake repeats his predecessors’ mistakes in his response to flooding and landslides, which have caused hundreds of deaths
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