🎙️“This is a time the whole world over with the ideas of equality somehow not being religiously or loyally defended. It's some kind of supremacy is being sought instead... of so-called authentic true nationals,” says Rajmohan Gandhi to Harsh Mander buff.ly/EHVWf8I

“Although #SushilaKarki cultivated a reputation as a no-nonsense chief justice who stood against corruption, there is one incident that has stained her legacy. “ Read the full chronicle of the week that transformed #Nepal by Pranaya Rana

🎙️📚 “'The Jackfruit Chronicles' is an intensely political book, but I’ve chosen to tell it through the lens of food because that is one of the more accessible ways of connecting with an audience.” @shahnazahsan.bsky.social: buff.ly/vH9iMlR

📢📢 Job Alert: Himal Southasian is looking for a Social Media Editor. This is a full-time, remote position open to all nationalities. Candidates from marginalised social groups are encouraged to apply.

"It was widely believed that the “unidentified gunmen” who opened fire on Relangi and Sinnadurai Selvarajah were members of the LTTE, despite the lack of corroborating evidence," Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma writes about 20 years without justice for #RelangiSelvarajah's murder

After two weeks of national upheaval, Himal engagement editor Sushim Thapaliya has compiled a full social media timeline of the #GenZprotests in #Nepal, showing how online common spaces can become “sources of information and tools of mobilisation”

From March: "Why I confronted the former president with the Batalanda Commission report during his Al Jazeera interview – and why #SriLanka must face up to the torture, disappearances and human rights abuses of the 1980s JVP insurrection" by Frances Harrison :

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🎙️ “Marginalisation is a conscious political choice…the seed of marginalisation of today's indigenous and Madhes people was sowed during the time of monarchy,” A conversation with @Tashitwitts @Anjalis26784610 @UjjwalaMaharjan about #Nepal

PANEL DISCUSSION: Join Pranaya Rana, Ambika Satkunanathan and Zyma Islam as they analyse youth-led protests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka – and what comes afterwards, 25 September at 7 PM IST: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

Relangi Selvarajah won respect in #lka as a senior journalist, becoming a radio announcer and later a television anchor. This would prove to be her undoing. Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma writes about her killing, which remains unresolved 20 years later.

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🎙️📚 “'The Jackfruit Chronicles' is an intensely political book, but I’ve chosen to tell it through the lens of food because that is one of the more accessible ways of connecting with an audience.” A conversation with @shahnazahsan.bsky.social: buff.ly/vsKZzYn

🎙️ On "Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100" @RajMohan_Gandhi on the history of the #RSS – "#Gandhi became the popular leader of the whole country. Gandhi ascending to leadership was too much for men like #Savarkar." @harsh_mander @karwanemohabbat

As President Trump and #Pakistan PM Sharif prepare to meet during the UN General Assembly, revisit Salman Rafi Sheikh's piece about US-Pakistan relations from June

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

A day by day, post by post view of how #Nepal’s Gen Z protests unfolded on Instagram, TikTok, Discord and other social media, from the massacre on 8 September to the swearing in of #SushilaKarki by Himal engagement editor Sushim Thapaliya

📣🔥 Saffron Siege 🔥📣 A new podcast series from @Himalmag.bsky.social and Karwan-e-mohabbat, marking the centenary of the #RSS. buff.ly/ZUXSezE

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Join Pranaya Rana, Ambika Satkunanathan and Zyma Islam as they analyse youth-led protests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka – and what comes afterwards, 25 September at 7 PM IST: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

Popular #SriLankan media person Relangi Selvarajah was brutally killed by people who did not like her opinions. Unfortunately, even after two decades, justice has not been served in her case – or in that of her husband. Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma writes:

🎙️ 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: Southasia’s youthquakes - on #GenZprotests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka. Co-hosted by @romangtm.bsky.social and Harsh Mander. Sign up to register: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

As the Taliban rejects US President Trump attempt to retake Bagram Air Base in #Afghanistan, revisit Salman Rafi Sheikh's piece from August 2024

🎙️📚 “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

📣🔥 Saffron Siege 🔥📣 A new podcast series from @Himalmag.bsky.social and Karwan-e-mohabbat, marking the centenary of the #RSS. buff.ly/ZUXSezE

🎙️📚 In ‘The Jackfruit Chronicles’, the award-winning food writer @shahnazahsan.bsky.social invites us into her family’s British-Bangladeshi kitchen, showing how food carries both resistance and remembrance, and reflects the complexities of diasporic life in Britain: buff.ly/vsKZzYn

From April 2025: two weeks after #Nepal’s Gen Z protests, read about the country's earlier pro-monarchy movement, including how nationalist myths and #India’s Hindu Right feed into royalist resurgence (by Amish Raj Mulmi)

#MMKalburgi faced censure and controversy for the better part of his life, especially from an orthodoxy that did not enjoy his challenges to traditional hagiography or care much for the deep humanism that drove him Srikar Raghavan writes on the Indian historian:

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🎙️“In this particular moment, this binary of the old and the young and of ‘we've done this and then you're just starting’ has to be dissolved for us to really come together.” Ujjwala Maharjan appeals for intergenerational inclusivity in #Nepal’s way forward

PANEL DISCUSSION: Southasia’s youthquakes - on #GenZprotests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka. Co-hosted by @romangtm.bsky.social and peace activist Harsh Mander. Sign up to register: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

🎙️“#Gandhi was probably one of the very few people who said ‘no, no’, to Partition until the very end, when he, with very great regret, he agreed,” says Rajmohan Gandhi to Harsh Mander in episode #1 of ‘Saffron Siege’

“The charred remains of police stations, super markets, minister’s homes, the federal parliament, the Supreme Court and much else stand as stark reminders of five of the most dramatic and consequential days in #Nepal’s history,” writes Sushim Thapaliya

Maldives pushes through repressive ‘media control’ bill, journalists protesting outside parliament detained. Read more in Southasia Weekly, out now: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters

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As the Taliban rejects US President Trump attempt to retake Bagram Air Base in #Afghanistan, revisit Salman Rafi Sheikh's piece from August 2024 www.himalmag.com/politics/tal...

From June: The renowned Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s 1976 debut collection, ‘Khushboo’, finds new life online, even as romantic expression for and by women continues to be dismissed. Karishma M writes:

The Maldives' media control bill, Nepal appoints new energy, finance ministers , India-Pakistan hostility around Asia Cup and more in this edition of Southasia Weekly, out now! bit.ly/HimalNewsletters

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"Immersing oneself in Anglophone literary and cultural production was a matter of what Vidyan Ravinthiran terms the “traumatized hyperurgency” of #SriLankan #Tamil families, a pressure to excel born from persecution." Meena Venkataramanan reviews ‘Asian/Other’:

"#Languages rarely vanish by decree alone. Much damage is also done by quieter, subtler, far more insidious forces. If the state begins the purge, it is often shame that finishes the job." Hugo Ribadeau Dumas writes on the disappearing languages of #Bihar:

From January: The miraculous case of Sumit Nagal, the Indian tennis star who succeeded despite a dysfunctional sports administration and woeful funding. @tennisballfluff writes about the uphill battle India's up and coming tennis players have to fight. buff.ly/cRCXhCP

🎙️“Gandhi was again and again saying to everybody vis-a-vis the British, vis-a-vis all differences, divisions, that you have to listen to your adversary, to your opponent. You should try to understand his point of view,” says Rajmohan Gandhi to Harsh Mander

New report: a day by day, post by post view of how #Nepal’s Gen Z protests unfolded on Instagram, TikTok, Discord and other social media, from the massacre on 8 September to the swearing in of #SushilaKarki by Himal engagement editor Sushim Thapaliya

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India’s SC rejected a petition against Booker-winner #BanuMushtaq’s inaugurating #MysuruDasara, dismissing its claim that participation of a “non-Hindu would hurt religious sentiment.” Revisit @meghnarao.bsky.social's essay on the roots of Mushtaq’s literary rebellion:

@Himalistan explains: what happened during the #GenZprotests in #Nepal in three minutes, by editor @romangtm.bsky.social

A fellow Tamil-descent immigrant writer Meena Venkataramanan reflects on the #Sri Lankan-British poet Vidyan Ravinthiran’s memoir ‘Asian/Other’, exploring the porousness of identity in the Southasian diaspora and the challenges of writing beyond Western expectations:

“There are women who are still living the aftermath of this war and they are still being neglected by governments and families and societies," says Saima Begum about her new book 'The First Jasmines,' set during the 1971 #Bangladesh Liberation War