Today, a landslide in the Gorkha district of Nepal has blocked the Budhi Gandaki, flooding villages downstream. In August, Pranaya Rana missed the Rasuwa flood by an hour. His account of a country where disaster can come at any time: www.himalmag.com/nepal-flood-...

The Election Commission of India was long seen as acting without fear or favour. Listen to transparency activist Anjali Bhardwaj on how that reputation has taken a hit in this podcast from 2025: https://www.himalmag.com/podcasts/anjali-bhardwajindia-election-commission/

The 2024 election coverage fixated on the BJP’s northern and central heartlands. Our series ‘Modi’s India from the Edges’ looked outward: nine pieces from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and the Northeast on what a decade of Modi meant : https://ow.ly/pKSJ50ZWz13

Anand Teltumbde reads Nikhila Henry’s The Ferment, which traces campus and caste movements, including FTII’s 139-day protest, the Una boycott and the Bhim Army, and asks why they faded. A 2019 Himal review, revisited on the day of the CJP protest in India: https://www.himalmag.com/young-rebellions/

In this edition of Southasia Weekly, we focus on CJP protests in India, a review which looks at why land reform has failed in Nepal’s Tarai along with what the Makkah Pact could mean for Bangladesh.

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Dhaka publicly expressed interest in joining the Makkah Pact, a joint defence agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, which could further strain its relationship with New Delhi. Read Maruf Hasan's piece here: www.himalmag.com/bangladesh-m...

Even recent political movements across the Tarai have focused almost exclusively on regional representation and identity—leaving the underlying feudal structure that keeps 40% of agricultural households landless virtually untouched : https://www.himalmag.com/land-reform-nepal-tarai-madhesh/

Himal Southasian’s October 2025 essay examines the expanding nexus between pro-Israel actors and Sinhala-Buddhist extremists. The article traces how organisations such as ISSOM and Sinhala Ravaya have sought to reshape Sri Lanka’s stance on Palestine: https://ow.ly/Ckos50ZUUp4

Since May 2023, India’s central government and the Manipur state government have failed to de-escalate tensions between Meiteis and Kukis. And, since February this year, things have become worse, with the Kukis and the Nagas reigniting age-old animosities: www.himalmag.com/manipur-naga...

The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero has renewed attention on the political influence of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist clergy.

Himal’s June 2026 essay examines the longer history behind the politicisation of the sangha : www.himalmag.com/sri-lanka-si...

Why have decades of political upheaval—from 1960s land reforms to a Maoist insurgency and Madhesh uprisings—failed to dismantle landlordism in Nepal’s southern plains?

Maximillian Mørch reviews Fraser Sugden’s book on the political economy of the Tarai-Madhesh: https://ow.ly/GJlA50ZUrFs

"Nepal's gods never needed to be rescued."
Erin L Thompson's investigation into Mary Slusser, who smuggled hundreds of artefacts out of Nepal, many of them sacred, many stolen, is still worth your time.
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Revisit archival stories from Himal that add more context and insight to this week’s news updates from Pakistan and India in Southasia Weekly: www.himalmag.com/imran-khan-p...

In this edition of Southasia Weekly, we focus on Ken-Betwa protests, Modi and anti-caste writing in education, flooding and airstrikes in Myanmar and more.

Read here: https://www.himalmag.com/pti-march-manipur-southasia-weekly/

Rao on 'The World After Gaza', reviewed with Esmat Elhalaby's 'Parting Gifts of Empire': "Mishra offhandedly erases entire generations of Palestinian scholarship on Zionism."
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