Nayantara Narayanan

📣 🎙️ 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.
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🎙️ 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.

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Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

"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
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📣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.

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

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
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Nepal’s K P Oli government has murdered 19 people This story first appeared in Kalam Weekly. It has been republished with updates and edits. Monday, 8 September, started out optimistic. A Gen Z protest against

#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...

Marlon Ariyasinghe on Ranil Wickremesinghe’s arrest and Sri Lanka’s political morass: State of Southasia #31 On the 22nd of August, Colombo police arrested the former president of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe over allegations that he used public funds on a two-day pe

📣 🎙️ 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”
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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.
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Umesh Moramudali on Southasia and the Trump tariffs: State of Southasia #28 Donald Trump, the president of the United States, had kept the global economy on tenterhooks for the last four months. On 2 April, he announced a set of import

📣 🎙️ 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.
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Samina Luthfa on the battles of women in a new Bangladesh In October 2024, two months after the monsoon revolution in Bangladesh toppled Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and Awami League government, four gender experts

🎙️ #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

Trump’s aid cuts have broken global health – but we can fight back Trump’s aid cuts have broken global health but we can fight back

"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
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How fascism works in India India’s fascist turn under Modi’s Hindu nationalism mirrors Nazi tactics, targets Muslims and threatens democracy

"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

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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.

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Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling: Southasia Review of Books podcast #26 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️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 on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy” In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri

🎙️ JJ Robinson (@journojim) on how Maldives’ political culture under Mohamed Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs. #StateofSouthasia #podcast
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JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy” In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri

🎙️"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!

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📢 HIMAL FICTION FEST 2025: Celebrating Southasian speculative fiction 🔮

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Afreen Fatima & Harsh Mander: Bulldozers, the hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India Himal Southasian Podcast Channel · Episode

📣 🎙️ 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.
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