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Shahnaz Ahsan on food, identity and the Bangladeshi diaspora Southasia Review of Books podcast #33

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 16d

🎙️📚 “Like many British-Bangladeshis, I was aware of the migration within my family. I grew up being conscious that we came from somewhere else. And the thing that made us different to everybody else in the best possible way was food.”

A conversation with @shahnazahsan.bsky.social: buff.ly/vsKZzYn

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20d

'Images rémanentes de la disparition forcée' feauturing a video adaptation of my 2022 article (rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) on the political uses of photography by the Tamil Families of the Disappeared in Northern Sri Lanka opens in Geneva this evening www.unige.ch/cite/eveneme...

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 28d

"And now #Nepal, from its present abyss, dreams of a new politics that actually works for the people. Let it not have to see more blood in its striving," writes Himal EIC @romangtm.bsky.social about the #GenZprotests in #Kathmandu

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 28d

“What is the idea of the birangona woman? It is not the government’s definition, it is not the soldiers’ definition. It is the definition of how the women defined themselves in that moment and afterwards.”

A conversation with Saima Begum:

A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 28d

📣 New podcast from @himalmag.bsky.social and Karwan e Mohabbat:

As the #RSS celebrates 100 years this Dussehra, a series of conversations examining its roots, its ideology and its role in India's public and social life.

Harsh Mander hosts this 12-part series starting 17 September.

Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal

Shwetha Srikanthan @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social · 28d

📣🎙️New podcast from @himalmag.bsky.social and Karwan-e-Mohabbat!

As the #RSS turns 100 this Dussehra, the peace activist and writer Harsh Mander hosts a 12-part series examining its roots, ideology and role in #India’s public life.

Launching 17 September - you don’t want to miss this!

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Sep 8

v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...

by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣 🎙️ Coming in 10 days: A new season of Partitions of the Heart – 12 episodes on the history of the RSS, its role in India's public life and in creating communal division.
One episode every Wednesday, starting 17 September.

Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal

Shwetha Srikanthan @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social · Sep 8

@vindi-b.bsky.social on how Trincomalee, a port city on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, has been shaped through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...

by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...

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Shwetha Srikanthan @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Although northern Sri Lanka has been insistently ignored in the canon of the island’s photographic history, its prominence for the claimed arrival and development of photography cannot be overestimated and warrants far greater attention."

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Depending on whom you ask, the BRI is a 21st-century Marshall Plan for the Global South, a series of crippling debt traps, or a herald of China’s new role as the dominant global superpower."

@joshuaqyang.bsky.social writes:

What is the Belt and Road Initiative really?

IN APRIL of this year, the United States, seemingly no longer content to uphold the status quo of global trade and power, unleashed a barrage of tariffs against

Wendy Doniger on the many lives of myths: Southasia Review of Books podcast #29

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 30

“History, too, is often written in the shadow of the same agendas as myth. As we see in our own time when what facts are available are twisted to serve particular religious and political agendas.”

A conversation with the Indologist Wendy Doniger: www.himalmag.com/podcast/wend...

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

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Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 5

📚🎙️“The difference between an AI model and a human ultimately is really basic. It’s the fact that an AI model isn’t a human. What I’m interested in is my relationship as a reader with the human writer who put the words on the page.”

@vauhinivara.bsky.social:

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling: Southasia Review of Books podcast #26

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 7

📚🎙️“We now have contested histories. History is being weaponised so that it can become a tool for the right wing to make a case against minorities, against the facts of our history.”

A conversation with Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling:

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

Tune in to our latest Southasia Review of Books episode for the full conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social on his new collection of short stories, 'The Way You Want to Be Loved'.

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Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎙️📚New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast!

A conversation with the Assamese writer @arunikashyap.bsky.social on crafting stories on love, resistance and belonging set against the long shadow of violence in India’s Northeast: www.himalmag.com/podcast/arun...

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

Coming on 4 June: Season 1 of the new Himal podcast "Partitions of the Heart", which is about Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi's India. Harsh Mander speaks to the researcher and activist Afreen Fatima about #bulldozers, the #hijab, Muslim rage and much more.

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · May 22

We need your support to continue producing independent journalism to the Southasian region. Become a paying supporter today for more investigative reporting and accountability journalism.

Join our Patrons programme here: www.himalmag.com/support-himal

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · May 22

We received the honor in the Small and Medium Outlets category for our investigative reportage “The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions” by M Rajshekhar.

Read the full story here: buff.ly/QOcuJ1l

The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions

Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. 1: Welcome to Vantara FOR MANY, the first inkling came from the save-the-date card, speckled with

Can India ever return to a principled Palestine policy?

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · May 22

🏅🎉 Himal was chosen as a finalist for the 2025 Global Shining Light Awards by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (@gijn.org‬ ) — the prize that honors watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries carried out under threat, or in perilous conditions.

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Chintan @chintanwriting.bsky.social · Feb 13

I am glad to have written this piece for @himalmag.bsky.social with excellent editorial support from @romangtm.bsky.social and @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social. It is always so gratifying to work with them because they nudge me towards clarity and sharpness.

Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Feb 13

"India’s strategic concerns have been pushing the country towards Israel, with historical and moral solidarities set aside."

A review essay by Chintan Girish Modi :

INDIA REGULARLY SENDS aid to Palestine through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. According to a press release issued by India’s

Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on the cultural archives of #Gulf migration in #Kerala: SaRB #19

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Mar 10

🎙️📚"To say what the Gulf was according to the migrants, I did not want to read them as victims. I wanted to look at the kind of literature they wrote, the kind of photographs they produced or the films they made."

A conversation with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil:

A conversation with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on documenting the cultural imaginaries of Kerala and the Gulf through migrants’ literary and visual records...