In ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’, the BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet traces Afghanistan’s decades of war and political upheaval through the lives and memories of the people who kept Kabul’s Intercontinental running
How Manu Joseph’s ‘Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us’ falls short in diagnosing the ills of liberal India, and how the novelist turned provocateur has lost his way
Sixteen years after Prageeth Ekneligoda’s abduction, his wife Sandya continues to fight for justice for him amid ongoing impunity for crimes against journalists in Sri Lanka under Anura Kumara Dissanayake
The 2007 assault on the news director of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by Mervyn Silva, and the stalling of the investigation and case, remains a blot on media freedom during and after Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime
This week in Himal
Ingrid Massagé writes about ongoing exhumations at a mass grave site in Chemmani, in northern Sri Lanka, drawing from her experiences as an observer of the
The journalist discusses how the government has pushed through a law with vague and broad language that can allow the persecution of critical media outlets
Relangi Selvarajah’s killing in 2005 is a reminder of the risks faced by critics of Tamil militancy and the LTTE during Sri Lanka’s civil war – and of the persisting impunity around crimes against journalists in the country
Two weeks ago, Nayantara and I were brainstorming ideas for season 2 of “Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander” while we were in Kathmandu. We had already seen
This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
Sri Lankan journalists are calling on the government to expedite stalled investigations into the unsolved abduction and murder of Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam “Taraki” Sivaram
