More on that in my essay on #Jawan published on Himal Southasian in September 2023. Read: "Jawan treads with caution in an India on edge" himalmag.com/comment/jawan-… #1YearOfJawan (5/5)

🎙️📚 “Love Jihad, according to me, is the highest order of mansplaining” Tune in to our latest #SouthasiaReviewofBooks episode on Spotify for a conversation with Neha Dixit on 'The Many Lives of Syeda X': open.spotify.com/episode/5tsTg6…

Delhi High Court issued a contempt of court notice on everyone’s favourite non-attributable source, Wikipedia. Netizens responded by asking if a return to encyclopaedias was on the cards. 📨Got a joke to share? Send us your memes for Only in Southasia: forms.gle/iZGmeMqqdh2TQU…

Mari Selvaraj, ‘Maamannan’, and the cinema of caste in Tamil Nadu: A new generation of Tamil filmmakers are confronting the caste-glorification films of the past – but controversy is often quick to follow. From August 2023, by Karthick Ram Manoharan: himalmag.com/politics/mari-…

Douglas Ober's ‘Dust on the Throne’ focusses on grossly overlooked aspects of Buddhism in Southasia and beyond, highlighting casteless and anti-caste legacies connecting ancient and modern Buddhists From October 2023, by Gajendran Ayyathurai: himalmag.com/culture/buddhi…

🎥 Screen Southasia: Last day to watch! What makes a city? Watch 'Chai Darbari', a documentary where Prateek Shekhar unpacks #Ayodhya's sociopolitical context before the 2019 general elections. Streaming 2-9 September. Sign up here: bit.ly/ScreenSouthasia

Last week saw fresh revelations about India’s covert trade with Russia, with reports of Moscow’s plans to spend INR 82 billion (USD 1 billion) on acquiring ‘sensitive goods’ in India 📨Get Southasia Weekly in your inbox, every Friday. Sign up: bit.ly/HimalNewslette…

Most coverage of para athletes overlooks the ableist systemic and societal barriers that create inequalities in access to education, employment, leisure, and many other things for people with disabilities, writes Priti Salian himalmag.com/culture/paraly…

An under-resourced and institutionally weakened Tamil leadership may well find it difficult to expend political capital on fighting a new, poorly understood and abstract “enemy” in climate change. Amita Arudpragasam: himalmag.com/politics/clima…

Stories from the Paralympics depict disabled athletes as “superhumans” who have “overcome” their disabilities to succeed. This narrative reinforces misconceptions and misrepresents the realities of the athletes, writes Priti Salian himalmag.com/culture/paraly…

Tamil nationalism faces a new challenge as the climate emergency spreads in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and other Tamil-dominated areas, where the ravages of war and systemic discrimination have left the people especially vulnerable Amita Arudpragasam: himalmag.com/politics/clima…

How did a middle-aged Bangladeshi refugee, abandoned by her husband and, later, her own family, come to have this effect on teenage children in a small town in sub-Himalayan Indian Bengal? @sumanasiliguri: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

The Narendra Modi government must reckon with Bangladeshi anger over its support for Sheikh Hasina even as the United States, China and Russia all reassess their approaches to Dhaka. Kamal Ahmed writes: himalmag.com/politics/sheik…

How do you articulate the shame and confusion you feel from sexual assault when no one has yet discussed sex with you? Would anyone believe you if you spoke up? Sarah Anjum Bari reviews 'Daughter of the Agunmukha': himalmag.com/politics/noorj…

📢 FRESH! Hundreds of fishermen straying into disputed waters in Sir Creek are arrested each year. Activists are collaborating across the India–Pakistan border to bring them home, Kanika Gupta| خبرنگار writes himalmag.com/politics/india…