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Himal Southasian Podcast Channel — 226 episodes
Mirza Waheed on writing beyond the radicalisation story: Southasia Review of Books #40
Joe Sacco on the book Penguin India wouldn’t distribute: Southasia Review of Books #39
Nepal Elections 2026: Parties, Power, and the Promise of Change | Himal Conversations
The high stakes of the 2026 Bangladesh election | Nusmila Lohani and Zyma Islam
Felix Pal, Christophe Jaffrelot & Tanika Sarkar on the RSS’s hidden network
Ayesha Jalal on Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment: State of Southasia #37
Nirvana Bhandary on what it means to be a feminist in Nepal today: Southasia Review of Books podcast #38
Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity
Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more
Anjali Bhardwaj on misgivings over India’s Election Commission: State of Southasia #36
Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence
Dur e Aziz Amna on writing a story of womanhood and ambition in Pakistan: Southasia Review of Books podcast #37
Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS
T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS
Ma Thida on Myanmar’s unfinished struggle for democracy: Southasia Review of Books podcast #36
Akshaya Mukul, Kunal Purohit & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindutva’s propaganda machinery
Sharda Ugra on the rise (and the challenges) of women’s cricket: State of Southasia #35
Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis
Amrita Mahale on writing a Himalayan literary mystery: Southasia Review of Books podcast #35
Ahmed Naish on Maldives’s controversial new media regulation law: State of Southasia #34
Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women
Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindu Rashtra today
Aatish Taseer on exile and the idea of return: Southasia Review of Books podcast #34
Mridula Mukherjee, Vinay Lal & Harsh Mander on the RSS ideologues
Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33
Apoorvanand & Harsh Mander: The RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948
Shahnaz Ahsan on food, identity and the Bangladeshi diaspora: Southasia Review of Books podcast #33
Rajmohan Gandhi & Harsh Mander: Gandhi and the RSS
GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
Marlon Ariyasinghe on Ranil Wickremesinghe’s arrest and Sri Lanka’s political morass: State of Southasia #31
Vishwambhari Parmar on Gujarati pulp fiction: Southasia Review of Books podcast #31
Harsh Mander's big takeaways from "Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi's India"
Zeyad Masroor Khan & Harsh Mander on riots, Muslim ghettos, boycotts and expulsions
Zahra Nader on Iran’s brutal deportations of Afghan refugees: State of Southasia #30
Manoj Jha & Harsh Mander on India’s politics of fear and division
Ipsita Chakravarty on resistance, remembrance and storytelling in Kashmir: Southasia Review of Books podcast #30
Syeda Hameed & Harsh Mander on Partition, pluralism and poetry
Maximillian Morch on the disquiet behind Bhutan’s Geluphu Mindfulness City: State of Southasia #29
Saeed Mirza & Harsh Mander on the decades-long erosion of the idea of India
Wendy Doniger on importance of understanding other peoples’ myths: Southasia Review of Books podcast #29
Mohsin Alam Bhat & Harsh Mander on the threat to Muslims as a crisis for India’s democracy
Umesh Moramudali on Southasia and the Trump tariffs: State of Southasia #28
Irfan Habib & Harsh Mander on the decay of socialism and secularism in India and more
Alina Gufran on millennial precarity and unbelonging in urban India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #28
Aman Wadud & Harsh Mander on the plight of Bengali Muslims in Assam
Samina Luthfa on the battles of women in a new Bangladesh: State of Southasia #27
Shahrukh Alam & Harsh Mander on how India’s laws are being weaponised against Muslims
Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27
Seema Chishti & Harsh Mander on media-fuelled Islamophobia and the “love jihad” fallacy
Christophe Jaffrelot on the Emergency and India 50 years later
Amirullah Khan & Harsh Mander on the deprivation of India’s Muslims
Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling: Southasia Review of Books podcast #26
Hilal Ahmed & Harsh Mander: Indian Muslims' marginalisation and the myth of appeasement
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
Afreen Fatima & Harsh Mander: Bulldozers, the hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25
Vidya Krishnan on how India's politics magnified its Covid-19 death toll: State of Southasia #24
Thomas Bell on a walking history of the Himalayan landscape: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #21
Michelle de Kretser on her new novel, ‘Theory & Practice’: Southasia Review of Books podcast #23
Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22
Rahul Bhatia on India’s turn towards authoritarianism: Southasia Review of Books podcast #22
Pranaya Rana on Nepal’s royalist resurgence: State of Southasia #21
Anand Teltumbde on the contested legacy of B R Ambedkar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #21
Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya’s endless troubles in Bangladesh: State of Southasia #20
The Sri Lankan-Pākehā writer Saraid de Silva on her Women’s Prize longlisted novel ‘Amma’: Southasia Review of Books podcast #20
Jayati Ghosh on USAID the politics of foreign aid: State of Southasia #19
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on the cultural archives of Gulf migration in Kerala: Southasia Review of Books podcast #19
Manan Ahmed Asif on Lahore as a city exiled from its pasts: Southasia Review of Books podcast #18
Yasmin Sooka on truth and reconciliation in Sri Lanka: State of Southasia #18
Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17
Kanupriya Dhingra on the survival of Old Delhi’s book bazaar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #16
Priyanka Dubey on the risks to journalists in India’s hinterlands: State of Southasia #17
Weena Pun on the invisibility of women in Nepal’s society and literature: Southasia Review of Books podcast #15
Susan Banki on the battles of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees: State of Southasia #16
Sadaf Wani on the lifeworlds of Srinagar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #14
Southasia in review 2024
State of Southasia #15: Sana Batool on anti-Shia violence in Pakistan
Southasia Review of Books podcast #13: Tariq Ali on a life in writing and dissent
State of Southasia #14: Patricia Mukhim on Manipur’s unending crisis
Southasia Review of Books podcast #12: Ari Gautier on the dark side of Pondicherry
State of Southasia #13: Pankaj Sekhsaria on India’s Great Nicobar misadventure
Southasia Review of Books podcast #11: Sex, scandal and the death of a poet in 1970s Karachi
State of Southasia #12: Hurmat Ali Shah on Pashtuns and the Pakistani state
Southasia Review of Books podcast #10: Zara Chowdhary on ‘The Lucky Ones’ and surviving the violence of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom
State of Southasia #11: Jyoti Rahman on rebuilding democracy in Bangladesh
SaRB #09: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on ‘Our City That Year’
State of Southasia #10: Ambika Satkunanathan on the landmark political shift in Sri Lanka
State of Southasia #09: Anna M M Vetticad on the gender reckoning in Malayalam cinema
SaRB #08: The Afghan women writers who bore witness to the fall of Kabul
State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule
Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit
State of Southasia #07: Ali Riaz on Bangladesh’s mass protests
Southasia Review of Books podcast #06: Vajra Chandrasekera
State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s social project of hate in India
Screen Southasia: Q/A on 'Split Ends' with filmmaker Rajan Kathet
Southasia Review of Books podcast #05: Siddhartha Deb on India’s macabre new realities
Himal Fiction Fest 2024: The future of Southasian Fiction in Translation
State of Southasia #05: Journalism in crisis across Southasia
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #04: Sumana Roy on literature from the Southasian provinces
State of Southasia #04: Counting the costs of another historic heatwave in Southasia
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #03: Taha Kehar on Southasian mystery novels
State of Southasia #03: Aakar Patel on the unprecedented threats to India’s election
Southasian Conversation: The costs of Reliance's wildlife ambitions
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #02: Smriti Ravindra on ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’
State of Southasia #02: Ayesha Siddiqa on Pakistan’s election and its message for the military
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #01: V V Ganeshananthan on Brotherless Night
SCREEN SOUTHASIA: Q/A session on 'Demons in Paradise' with Jude Ratnam
State of Southasia #01: Anand Patwardhan on the Ram Mandir and the long life of the ‘Ram ke naam’
INTERVIEW: Unpacking India’s caste census
Podcast: Cracks in the INDIA alliance, Pakistan accuses India of targeted assassinations, and more
Southasiasphere 20 Jan: India out of Maldives, elections in Bangladesh and Bhutan and more
INTERVIEW: India and Israel’s deepening ties and the implications for Southasia
Southasiasphere 6 Jan: India’s hit and run law, the launch of XPoSAT, and more
Southasiasphere 25 Dec: INDIA Opposition MPs suspended, Imran Khan’s virtual rally and more
INTERVIEW: COP28, the transition from fossil fuels and the Loss and Damage fund
Himal Interviews: Bangladesh’s one-sided parliamentary elections, crackdown on political opposition
Southasiasphere 4 Dec: Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban, Myanmar’s armed groups expose junta’s weakness
Southasiasphere 17 Nov: Armed groups challenge Myanmar’s military junta, Sri Lanka’s 2024 budget
Southasiasphere 5 Nov: Digital surveillance of Indian opposition, Nawaz Sharif’s return, and more
Southasiasphere, 22 Oct: Fresh scrutiny on Adani group, Afghan refugees in Pakistan face deportation
Southasiasphere 4 Oct 2023: Delhi Police raid on Newsclick, elections in the Maldives, and more
Southasiasphere, 20 Sep: G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings
Southasiasphere, 6 September: The Kashmir Walla and media freedom, Bhutan-China boundary talks, more
Southasiasphere, 23 Aug: Elections in the Maldives and Pakistan, economic boycotts in Haryana, more
Southasiasphere, 9 August: The Bajaur bombing, India’s ban on rice exports, and more
Southasiasphere, 26 July: Sexual violence in Manipur, Bangladesh protests and repression, and more
SCREEN SOUTHASIA: Q&A session with the filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Southasiasphere, 12 July: Crackdowns on online publishers, debt restructuring in Pakistan and SL
Modi’s US visit, Pakistani migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Myanmar’s flower strike and more
Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘The Next Guardian’
Southasiasphere, 12 June: Odisha train crash, the abduction of Jibran Nasir, and more
Southasiasphere, 30 May: The fallout of violence in Manipur and Bangladesh’s economic crisis
Southasiasphere, 16 May: Violence in Manipur, Imran Khan's arrest, the Karnataka elections and more
Screen Southasia: Q&A session for 'Is it too much to ask?'
Southasiasphere, 2 May: Marriage equality in India, fencing the Durand line, and more
Southasiasphere, 18 April: Air strikes in Myanmar, restrictions on women in Afghanistan, and more
Adani In Southasia
Screen Southasia: Q&A session with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten
Southasiasphere, 4 April: The Doklam dispute, Rahul Gandhi's conviction and more
Southasiasphere, 20 March: Imran Khan’s attempted arrest, UN appeal for Afghanistan aid and more
Southasiasphere, 6 March: Election in the Northeast, Bangladesh’s deal with Adani Power and ‘Gaadi’
The Rohingya crisis at sea, and beyond
Southasiasphere, 20 Feb: Delayed elections in Sri Lanka, tax raids on BBC in India and more
How can Pakistan end the military’s role in politics?
Southasiasphere, 6 Feb: Silent strikes in Myanmar, rising militancy and debt in Pakistan and more
Southasiasphere, 25 Jan: Protests in Gwadar, a BBC documentary on Modi, Tamil fiction in translation
Rebound or relapse: Debt restructuring in a time of crisis
Southasiasphere, 11 Jan: Yameen’s conviction, the Taliban ban on women's education and Kite Tales
Nepal elections, Pakistan's new Army Chief, ‘Moshari’, and more
The hidden cost
Protests in Swat Valley, Kashmiri journalists barred from travel, Trijya and more
The human dimension to Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
The regional impact of Iran's protests, Myanmar-Bangladesh border tensions, ‘Life Cycle’, and more
Social surveillance
Unpacking the floods in Pakistan
A Year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan floods, Indian Matchmaking and more
Sri Lanka’s new president, by-elections in Punjab, ‘14 Peaks’ and more
At the doors of the IMF
Southasia’s climate crisis, violent crackdowns on protests, ‘Incantations Over Water’, and more.
Escalating crisis in Sri Lanka, local elections in Nepal, Film Southasia 2022, and more.
Beyond Pakistan's no-confidence motion
Economic fallout of Russia’s war on Ukraine, food insecurity in Afghanistan & Bhutan's Oscar entry.
Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia (Audio article)
Southasia and the IMF, crackdowns on the press in Kashmir, Wordle and more.
Rethinking Bangladesh: A Southasian Conversation
Unreal estate: An interview with Debjani Bhattacharyya
Southasia's COP26, Bhutan's political prisoners, the politics of listening and more
Pandora Papers in Southasian media, humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and ‘Manike Mage Hithe’
Escalating conflict in Myanmar, enforced disappearances in Southasia and ‘Witnesses to History’
Who needs borders?
Afghan journalists under attack, surveillance after Pegasus, Olympics 2020, and more
#MeToo Sri Lanka, Myanmar’s jade mines, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ and more
Journalists under attack, marine disaster in Sri Lanka, chasing monkeys, and more
COVID-19 travel bubbles, vaccine procurement, Churails, and more
Getting the jab done
The deep roots of Myanmar’s crisis
CNN in Myanmar, environmental crises, and Tibetan cinema
Reinstatement of Nepal’s Parliament, Al Jazeera’s investigation on corruption in Bangladesh and more
Military coup in Myanmar, Nepal’s constitutional crisis and vaccine rollouts in Southasia
What the military coup means for Myanmar's ethnic conflicts
More than a seat at the table
Imperfect markets
The rise of extremes
Elections in Myanmar, opposition rallies in Pakistan, collaboration for COVID-19 vaccines and more
Constitutional change in Sri Lanka, Afghan peace talks, Bhutan-Bangladesh trade agreements and more
What the Maithili Movement tells us about language politics in India
The disconnect on Digital Pakistan
Elections in Sri Lanka, freedom of speech debates in India, war on drugs in Bangladesh and more
A special podcast with the editors of Himal
Interview with Megnaa Mehtta on the Sundarban after Cyclone Amphan
Interview with CP Chandrasekhar on role of IMF and World Bank during COVID-19
Interview with Anita Gurumurthy on data and surveillance capitalism
Himal Interview with Nivedita Menon
The future of democracy in the Maldives: Interview with Mushfiq Mohamed
PTM and Pakistan’s civil-rights movement
Anti-terror law after the Easter attacks
The crisis in Pakistani journalism: In conversation with Omar Waraich
Jayadeva Uyangoda on Easter Sunday attacks and its aftermath
Himal Interviews: Shahidul Alam on 2019 Indian elections
Kanak Mani Dixit on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Khushi Kabir on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Jayadeva Uyangoda on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Q&A for 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Himal Interviews: Crisis of Bangladeshi democracy with Khushi Kabir
Himal Interviews: The Abdus Salam story with Zakir Thaver
Himal Interviews: From Medina to Ayodhya with Pervez Hoodbhoy
Himal Interviews: The Wayward Daughter with Shradha Ghale
Himal Interviews: Human rights in Bangladesh with Saad Hammadi (Amnesty International)
The Southasian Conversation: Episode 2 - Arts on the streets
Interview with Reetika Khera on the Indian Supreme Court's verdict on Aadhaar
Interview with former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed
Himal Interview: Radhika Coomaraswamy on Myanmar
'Erasure': A poem by Nabina Das, read by the author
The Southasian Conversation: Women in media
Himal Interviews: Beena Sarwar on Pakistan elections
Himal Interviews: Rana Ayyub on the dangers of doing journalism in India
Poems by Kamala Das
Himal Interviews: Onaiza Drabu and Prachi Jha on their literary project 'Daak'
Poems by Habba Khatoon
Poems by Mahadevi Varma
Poems by Amrita Pritam
Himal Interviews: Annie Zaman on being denied entry to India
Lepidoptera: A poem by Subhashini Kaligotla
'Where is Arsalan Miyan?' A Short Story by Juanita Kakoty