I reviewed some new books on queer Southasia for @himalmag.bsky.social
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‘A Volatile Picture’ month at last!
The book is shipping out in the US via @uwapress.uw.edu (summer sale on now! ) / UK distributor @livunipress.bsky.social Out in the world on the 16th of June uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... | liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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
Got my hands on @vindi-b.bsky.social’s book! 📖✨
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“I was channelling the rage that I know exists into a character who will allow it to dictate her actions and fuel her ambition in a way that I think most of us, thankfully or otherwise, don’t let ourselves do.”
A conversation with Dur e Aziz Amna: buff.ly/9AydIn4
giving a rare (these days) lecture online in the spring (6th March 2026): Studio Ilankai: A Tamil Photographic History of Sri Lankan Citizenship. Info and registration: www.byforcollective.com/programs/vin...
'Images rémanentes de la disparition forcée' feauturing a video adaptation of my 2022 article (rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) on the political uses of photography by the Tamil Families of the Disappeared in Northern Sri Lanka opens in Geneva this evening www.unige.ch/cite/eveneme...
IT WASN’T THAT long ago that queer Southasian studies – perhaps especially work centred on India – seemed to be intensely preoccupied with the frame of the nati
Four new books open up debate on why same-sex marriage has come to anchor queer politics in India, and how the notions and politics of Southasian queer life shift across local, diasporic and transnational scales of identity and belonging.
A review essay by Rahul Rao :
🎙️ 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.
Join Himal Editor Roman Gautam and peace activist Harsh Mander as they discuss recent Gen Z-led protests in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its tu...
A conversation with the writer Dur e Aziz Amna about her second novel, ‘A Splintering’, and its exploration of class struggle, female rage, and the challenges of navigating social expectations across…
Sri Lanka’s recent history and present, characterised by majoritarian governance, ethno-nationalist conflict, and civil war, is entangled with the multidimensional marginalisation of the island’s Tami...
🎙️📚 “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
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IT WASN’T THAT long ago that queer Southasian studies – perhaps especially work centred on India – seemed to be intensely preoccupied with the frame of the nati
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
