Himal Southasian
Himal Southasian is Southasia’s independent, non-nationalist regional magazine, offering news, analysis, reviews, and stories from across the subcontinent.
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The Deh-Mehri massacre and the Taliban’s cover-up of anti-Shia violence
The attack at the Deh-Mehri shrine near Herat exposes the ongoing targeting of Shias in Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s efforts to cover up sectarian violence
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How the Office on Missing Persons is failing Sri Lanka’s disappeared
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
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The Indian middle class’s broken dreams of Modi and “merit”
A growing crisis over jobs, debt and AI has put India’s middle class off Modi and his economic promises – and shaken its faith in the ideal of merit
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What counts as Hindi?
Tyler Williams’s history of early modern Hindi reveals a literary world far more diverse and materially complex than the contemporary definition of the language suggests, challenging fixed ideas about literature and cultural history
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The rise and rise of the Pakistan military’s PR machine
The ISPR has outgrown its original role to become a major tool of the Pakistan Army’s power – and now also of Asim Munir’s ambition
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With the crackdown on CJP protests, Modi’s undeclared Emergency shifts into higher gear
Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
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The promises and pitfalls of the Makkah Pact for Bangladesh
As Bangladesh mulls joining Pakistan, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia’s in their collective defence deal, it risks a fallout in its relationship with India
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Why land reform has failed in Nepal’s Tarai
Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold of landlordism and poverty in Nepal’s southern plains
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The spiral of attacks and allegations between Manipur’s Nagas and Kukis
Since February this year, Kukis and Nagas have reignited old animosities, adding to the ethnic violence and armed hostilities in Manipur
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Nepal’s post-flood Loss and Damage claims highlight the need for its own climate evidence
As Nepal demands climate reparations after the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli flood, it needs greater domestic research and data capacity to make robust Loss and Damage claims before a recalcitrant global system
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The limits of Pankaj Mishra’s reckoning with Zionism and the Gaza genocide
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.
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Gloria Steinem’s crusade against sex work taints her legacy in Southasia
Southasian sex workers defied the iconic feminist’s view of “prostitution” as “commercial rape” – and built a movement for their own empowerment
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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‘Elephants in the Fog’ is a triumph for Nepal’s trans community under siege
The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s ‘Elephants in the Fog’ is a reminder of the gap between legal change and lived reality for the country’s transgender community
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Nepal’s Rasuwa flood disaster is an alert to Southasia and the world
Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to respond has been compromised by its geopolitical divisions
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Finding a home in a Himalayan landscape under threat
Anuradha Roy’s new book chronicles more than two decades of life in a hill station in the Indian Himalaya, where the pleasures of home and the allure of the mountains are inseparable from ecological crisis