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Sri Lanka: Back on the brink
Easter Sunday bombings could create new fissures.
Tisaranee Gunasekara | Apr 26, 2019
Himal Interviews: The Abdus Salam story
Podcast with Zakir Thaver, the co-producer of 'Salam', a documentary on the Pakistani physicist.
The Editors | Jan 07, 2019
Shibli Numani’s imagined community
A 19th-century travelogue from northern India challenges colonial orientalism.
Sumaira Nawaz | Dec 14, 2018
Where is Arsalan Miyan?
A short story about the psychological cost of violence. [WITH AUDIO READING]
Juanita Kakoty | Apr 27, 2018
An unjust war
‘Love Jihad’ and honour killings are strategies to quell challenges to caste, class and gender conventions.
Neha Dixit | Dec 27, 2015
Shining light on the Rohingya
A new photobook compassionately illustrates the lives torn apart by the Rohingya tragedy.
Meghna Guhathakurta | Feb 25, 2013
Since the Second Amendment
The massacres at two Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore is the result of anti-Ahmadi sentiment fanned by religious extremists and allowed by a compromised state and the silent support of political parties.
Husain Naqi | Jul 01, 2010
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Silent strikes in Myanmar, rising militancy and debt in Pakistan, The Elephant Whisperers and more
February - Updates and analysis from around the region
How a human rights law became a tool of repression in Sri Lanka
The ICCPR Act, modelled on an international human rights treaty meant to prohibit national, racial and religious hatred, has been distorted in Sri Lanka to punish blasphemy and target minorities
Pandemics have always revealed the weakness of the Indian state
In 'Pandemic India', David Arnold offers a reflective study of Covid, cholera, plague, the Spanish flu and other historical mass contagions, from the time of the British Raj to the Modi government
Bangladesh’s BNP fights to make a political comeback
With massive anti-government rallies by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and their repression by the ruling Awami League-led government, battle lines are being drawn for the next general election
