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
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
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
Chandni Singh, an environmental social scientist, talks about why the extreme heat facing the Subcontinent this summer is unlike the heat of the past, and how we are entering a new regime of risk
