Q&A with Rahul Jain, director of 'Machines' starting now (6 pm IST) for this month's edition of #ScreenSouthasia (Film Southasia) zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🎙️“Romila Thapar makes this point repeatedly that we cannot forget – that communal ideology is a direct descendant of colonial ideology,” says Mridula Mukherjee about #Hindutva and #RSS origins to @Harsh_Mander on Saffron Siege (Karwan e Mohabbat (Caravan of Love)) youtu.be/1Cb2AeGE7XE

🎙️📚 “At every moment in the book, one is inching towards the discovery that this idea of a return has a kind of in-built violence to it. It’s not just a fiction, but it’s a dangerous fiction.” A conversation with Aatish Taseer on 'A Return to Self': youtu.be/kXecyexfed8

Hemang Ashwinkimar reads #TheGujaratis in Himal Southasian himalmag.com/politics/gujar… Aleph Book Company DGA

Salil Tripathi’s 'The Gujaratis' exposes the shameful underside of a #Gujarati pride that serves as cover for the community’s self-serving pragmatism. A review essay by Hemang Ashwinkumar: himalmag.com/politics/gujar…

Very excited about the forthcoming launch of EQUATOR, a completely new multi-media platform that will foreground alternative perspectives on the new world that is struggling to take shape amidst the ruins of the old one. Proud that I have a long-form piece in the first issue -

Hossam and Anas should’ve been announcing the end of genocide ,celebrating the end of bloodshed. Instead, they gave their lives so the world could see the truth. Your courage, sacrifice, and voices will never be forgotten , the world is forever grateful for your truth. 🕊️

🎙️📚 “We’ve seen it now all over #Southasia that the idea of return contained many destructive elements, including ethno-nationalism and majoritarianism that we hadn’t really reckoned with.” A conversation with Aatish Taseer on 'A Return to Self': youtu.be/kXecyexfed8

Message from Nobel War Prize Committee to Trump: Sorry it can't be you as yet, but we've picked the next best thing and it should please you a lot. Maria Corina Machado loves you and is your candidate to replace Maduro after you try regime change. Remember that rogue whom the US

A pawn in America's regime change operation in Venezuela has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while ignoring doctors & journalists conducting heroic work in Gaza. These awards are an ideological weapon in the armour of imperialism. Only fools take this charade seriously.

A historic day that I still can’t believe it happened, I am out of my mind.. it’s so painful, heartbreaking, but yet inevitable.

my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575…

This is important - how to begin to calculate compensation for historic massacres in #srilanka - or elsewhere for that matter. How do u address the issue of interest over decades?

“What does it mean to seek a life that feels real, that feels authentic, in a world that’s constantly trying to reshape women? This is the central question of the novel.” A conversation with Amrita Mahale on her new novel, 'Real Life': youtu.be/0gZTeTOq3pI

Tune in to author Aatish Taseer in conversation with Shwetha Srikanthan on the Southasia Review of Books podcast by Himal Southasian. They delve into history, syncretism, and the search for belonging at the heart of his new book, A Return to Self. Listen here: himalmag.com/podcast/aatish…

More mass graves at Chemmani and Sri Lanka’s old failures of justice: Ingrid Massage who observed the 1999 Chemmani exhumations reflects on newly uncovered mass graves & Sri Lanka’s continued failure to deliver justice for Tamil victims of war-time crimes himalmag.com/politics/srila…

Read here Ingrid’s powerful reflections from the 1999 Chemmani mass graves to the new discoveries in 2025. Sri Lanka’s families are still waiting for truth and justice, 16 years after the war’s end. #SriLanka #Chemmani #MassGraves #HumanRights #TransitionalJustice

"Looking back at #Chemmani in 1999 is essential not just as cautionary history, but also as a lens through which to view the choices – and the inaction – of the present." Ingrid Massage on Sri Lanka’s old failures of justice: himalmag.com/politics/srila…

In this photo essay, I do precisely what I critique: I watch what others eat. A quiet act of food surveillance, not to police or interfere, but to try and hold up a mirror. Our latest is a photo essay by Mumbai | | Paused set in his favourite #Mumbai oneating.in/proteins-and-t…

📚🎙️As #Myanmar’s Spring Revolution approaches its fifth year, writer and activist Ma Thida (Thida) joins us on the Southasia Review of Books podcast to discuss her new book, 'A-Maze', and the country’s long and unfinished journey toward democracy: himalmag.com/podcast/ma-thi…