An examination of the OMP’s records reveals thousands of missing names and unexplained discrepancies in official tallies of Sri Lanka’s disappeared, raising questions of whether this truth-seeking mechanism has become another instrument of impunity
Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, recovers a forgotten history of anticolonial solidarity.
The police crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party protests and beyond, Bangladesh investigates first disappearance under BNP rule, Southasia's monsoon toll and more
Thant Myint-U’s new book on his grandfather, the first non-white secretary-general of the UN, revisits an era when the institution inspired expectations of internationalist diplomatic leadership that have since faded away
Even if the Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins, the Jamaat-e-Islami looks set to become a formidable opposition force, shifting the country’s political centre further to the right
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
Ground reporting of the 2025-26 election reveals that voters only hope for a slight lifting of the military’s boot in a race with virtually no political opposition
A suite of repressive laws make the outcome of Myanmar’s 2025–26 general election a foregone conclusion, but the public and the international community are unlikely to accept the result as the ruling military junta desperately seeks legitimacy
