The acclaimed comic-journalist discusses ‘The Once and Future Riot’, violence as a political tool, and the controversy surrounding Penguin India’s decision not to distribute his book
Thant Myint-U’s new account of his grandfather reconstructs a lost era of postcolonial internationalism through the story of a Burmese diplomat who led the UN through the world’s most defining crises
Audrey Truschke's ‘India: 5,000 Years of History in the Subcontinent’ revisits millennia of Southasia’s past beyond dynasties and nationalist mythmaking
Tamil writing under scrutiny in Sri Lanka, new books on authoritarianism and radical democracy, an Afghan memoir of food and exile, a landmark translation from Angika, and more from across Southasian publishing
