On the next episode of State of Southasia @nayantaran.bsky.social speaks to sports journalist Sharda Ugra about the ICC Women's World Cup, the state of women's cricket in India and Southasia, and what the game could like in the next 10 years. Episode out on Monday, 27 Oct.

📣 🎙️ New episode of State of Southasia with @nayantaran.bsky.social: Ahmed Naish, editor of the Maldives Independent, discusses Maldives's new media regulation law that could allow the government to clamp down on critical media outlets. Full episode on YouTube: buff.ly/G0rFtXv

🎙️ Coming up on State of Southasia: Daanish Mustafa speaks to @nayantaran.bsky.social about #Pakistan's devastating floods and the human activities and systems that made them so destructive. Episode out on 29 September.

🎙️ Coming up on State of Southasia: Daanish Mustafa speaks to @nayantaran.bsky.social about the floods that devastated large parts of #Pakistan this monsoon season and how #Southasia must learn to live with extreme weather. Episode out on 29 September.

🎙️ Coming up on the #podcast "Saffron Siege: the RSS at 100": Apoorvanand speaks to Harsh Mander about how the #RSS emerged from the shadows in the decades after Gandhi’s assassination and the role of key leaders in legitimising it. Episode out on 24 September on Himal's podcast channels.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Join @inkthink, @zymaislam @ambikasat as they analyse youth-led protests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka - and what comes afterwards, 25 September at 7 PM IST: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

Nepal has appointed Sushila Karki, former Supreme Court Justice, as interim prime minister. Read Southasia Weekly, our roundup of the latest from Himal and across the region: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters

"There are decades when nothing happens, and then days when decades happen." Pranaya Rana's chronicle of the week that transformed Nepal, ripping down the old political order and delivering an interim government #mustread www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...

📣This #Dussehra, @himalmag.bsky.social and Karwan-e-Mohabbat bring you a new podcast: As the #RSS celebrates 100 years, Harsh Mander and his eminent guests examine its roots, its ideology and its role in India's public and social life. A 12-part series starting 17 September.

After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu #GenZprotestnepal buff.ly/5mxRifN

#KPSharmaOli's government has killed 19 protestors in a single day after security forces opened fire at youth protests against nepotism and corruption. This is the largest single-day death toll from any public protest in #Nepal's history, writes Pranaya Rana

Good journalism = impact. And we’re seeing it happen. Last year, Himal investigated #Vantara — Reliance & the Ambani family’s private wildlife project, a story no Indian outlets dared to touch. Vantara sued us to take it down. We fought back. We won. ✊ www.himalmag.com/politics/rel...

📣 🎙️ New episode: The writer and researcher @marlona.bsky.social on the arrest of former #SriLanka president Ranil Wickremesinghe and why the opposition’s show of support for him is “farcical at best and infuriating at worst” buff.ly/dK18eYO

On the latest episode of State of Southasia, journalist Zahra Nader (@zahranader.bsky.social) speaks to @nayantaran.bsky.social about the protacted humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as people are being forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan.

📣 🎙️ Coming up on State of Southasia, Maximillian Morch (@maxmorch.bsky.social) who researches Asia's borderlands talks to @nayantaran.bsky.social about the economic strife and the history of repression behind Bhutan's mega project – the Gelephu Mindfulness City.

📣 🎙️ In a special interview of the Himal podcast "Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi's India", Irfan Habib, one of India's best historians, speaks to @harsh_mander about the past, present and future of socialism, secularism and democracy in the country. Full episode here: buff.ly/36kiyFP

📣 🎙️ New epoisode #StateofSouthasia: The economist Umesh Moramudali discusses the impact of proposed US tariffs on exports, balance of payments and debt in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other Southasian countries.

📣 🎙️ New episode of ‘Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India’. The historian Irfan Habib speaks to Harsh Mander about the decay of secularism and socialism in India. buff.ly/36kiyFP

🎙️ #Bangladesh “The increase in attacks against women and which has been mediatised in a way that actually gives a projection of Bangladesh after Awami League being unsafe for women. I think it's as unsafe as it was [before],” says Samina Luthfa

"As Trump’s America withdraws into its vast privilege, the only consolation is that pretences of global solidarity have been permanently shattered." Read @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social on rebuilding global health @himalmag.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/politics/glo...

"The concern that many of us have about what is happening in India today is that the basis is being laid for anything from ethnic cleansing to genocide," writes Jason Stanley:

🎙️ Coming up on “Partitions of the Heart”: The lawyer Shahrukh Alam speaks to Harsh Mander about how the Indian state is weaponising the law against Muslims Link here: buff.ly/o5MPxTQ

The economist Amirullah Khan talks about the deprivation of India’s Muslims and how Muslim leaders did not emerge in India’s politics over 70 years. Link to the podcast series here: buff.ly/PyWS93a

📚🎙️New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast! A conversation with the renowned writer and editor Jerry Pinto (@mahimkajerry) on Bollywood and the nation-state, the art of translation, and lessons of a life in literature and teaching:

Coming up on June 11: Episode 2 of the new #podcast on Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India. Harsh Mander speaks to Hilal Ahmed, an academic working on Muslim politics and representation, about Indian Muslims’ marginalisation, the myth of appeasement and more.

🎙️ JJ Robinson (@journojim) on how Maldives’ political culture under Mohamed Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs. #StateofSouthasia #podcast buff.ly/aK0vnyJ

🎙️"There's not much distinction between a businessman, a parliamentarian and a criminal in many cases." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast

For the next episode of the State of Southasia podcast, host @nayantaran.bsky.social‬ speaks with the journalist J J Robinson about corporatised political corruption in the Maldives and the recent protests against political impunity.

📢 Our first panel event for Himal Fiction Fest 2025, "The state of Southasian speculative fiction", is coming up next Monday! 📩 Sign up to receive the Zoom link: buff.ly/AupIohy

📢 HIMAL FICTION FEST 2025: Celebrating Southasian speculative fiction 🔮 Join us this Monday (9th June) for the first panel event! Sign up here: buff.ly/AupIohy

📣 🎙️ New #podcast: Episode 1 of Muslim Life – and Death in Modi's India is out. Afreen Fatima136 talks to Harsh Mander about the demolition of her home, her choice to wear the hijab and the risks that Muslims take everyday when they leave their homes. buff.ly/CobJKHS

🔈New #podcast series: Himal Southasian and Karwan-e-Mohabbat bring you "Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander" about the crisis of Muslims in India. Season 1 will be out in June👇🏽

🎙️"Throughout the pandemic, the biggest co-morbidity an Indian citizen had to deal with was Modi government." ‪vidyakrishnan.bsky.social‬ on State of Southasia #Covid19 #India

To delay this data by 4yrs is just as criminal as all those anti-science, anti-Muslim lies they told. They set trolls on journalists, arrested CAA protestors, toppled govt in MP & lied & lied & lied. Any other country would bring charges against the ministers. Not India. Here, we reelect monsters

"What happens at the next provocation, if these are the expectations that have now been set? How much more space is there at the top of the so-called escalation ladder?" rahulraothariel.bsky.social writes:

🏅🎉 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.

🎙️ For the next episode of the State of Southasia podcast, host Nayantara Narayanan speaks with Anuradha Bhasin, managing editor of Kashmir Times, on Kashmir’s long history of conflict, caught between India and Pakistan, in light of the recent Pahalgam attack and its aftermath.

🎉 It's Himal's 38th birthday this May 🎂 and we’re looking for 38 new supporters. For just USD 5 per month, you can be one of 38 special people who step up to help secure the future of independent journalism in Southasia. Click here: buff.ly/3NHN6O1

🎙️ #StateofSouthasia: "Nepal is a very diverse country. Most people do not want a single overarching identity that says that this is what it means to be a Nepali," says Pranaya Rana (@inkthink) in conversation with @nayantaran.bsky.social

Many poor countries heavily reliant on cheap Indian pharmaceuticals do not have strong regulatory systems of their own to check the quality of imported drugs, write Vidya Krishnan and Arshu John – the first part of the series "Pills, Perils, Profits".

#SriLanka's former president Ranil #Wickramasinghe recently found himself defending his actions while in office and his years in politics in a tense interview to Al Jazeera. Read this detailed profile of his storied career by Tisaranee Gunasekara.

In the early 1990s, thousands of Nepali-Bhutanese were were forced to flee their homes in southern Bhutan. I spoke to Susan Banki (@susanbanki.bsky.social) about their continuing battles as refugees and why Bhutan still ignores the diaspora created from this expulsion. @himalmag.bsky.social

(Part 1/3) In no particular order, here are a few of Himal’s most-read political stories of the year: https://buff.ly/40aSlEz

17 days. 10 train compartments. Follow the aspirations, efforts and opinions of India's working-class in "The Unreserved" directed by Samarth Mahajan. Sign up to watch: http://bit.ly/ScreenSouthasia

Start your year with this fabulous essay on the miraculous case of Sumit Nagal and the state of Indian #tennis in @himalmag.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/culture/sumi...

📢🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the State of Southasia podcast with @nayantaran.bsky.social, where journalist and researcher Sana Batool speaks about anti-Shia violence in Pakistan. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0LCx... 🎧 Youtube: youtu.be/Y39x8WAeYMQ

🎙️📚New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast! A sharp-eyed eyewitness to a chaotic and confusing world, the renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali understands that its problems don’t ever change, they just take different forms:

#INDvAUS India is off to a shaky start in the 2nd Test of #BorderGavaskar. But there's more than cricket at stake. Benjamin Golby writes that the series can inform Australian thinking about Southasia – a great read to kick off the weekend. @himalmag.bsky.social www.himalmag.com/culture/cric...

🎙️ Senior journalist Patricia Mukhim discusses the trauma of people in #Manipur, gripped by ethnic conflict for 19 months, and the culpability of its chief minister Biren Singh. Tune in to the latest episode of State of Southasia with @nayantaran.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/7HQ9...

🎙️📚New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast! A conversation with the Indian-Francophone writer Ari Gautier on Black and Dalit struggles, indentured labour, and the little-known histories of French colonialism in South India. Tune in: open.spotify.com/episode/6iI9...