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Titre Himal Southasian
Langue anglais
Pays, continent Nepal, Asie
Editeur The Southasia Trust, Lalitpur
Périodicité journalière
Editions électronique
Site web http://www.himalmag.com/

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Modi has forcibly integrated Kashmir with India but erased Kashmiris

Anuradha Bhasin 16/05/24

In the Modi years, India’s Hindu Right has achieved the near-complete subjugation of Indian-administered Kashmir, with the revocation of Article 370, increased militarisation and suspension of elections This story is part of ‘Modi’s India from the (...)

A new border in the old republic

Aditya Bahl 10/05/21

The class and caste-based contradictions within India’s farmers’ protest. For the first time in the history of postcolonial India, two different parades marked the Republic Day 2021 celebrations in New Delhi. At the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the (...)

Resisting a coup

Nai Aue Mon 22/03/21

How civil society is responding in the face of escalating violence in Myanmar. On 1 February, the military seized control of Myanmar after detaining National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders, claiming (...)

Myanmar : Unaccounted citizens

Salil Tripathi 21/09/16

The Rohingya struggle to find a place for themselves inside and outside Myanmar. The rains are here, and the seas are rough, so the sails are drawn down. But once the monsoon recedes and the storms fade, the waters turn calmer in the Bay of (...)

Burma : Ethnic groups, the military and ‘the Lady’

Ashley South 28/01/16

As anticipated, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in the 2015 Burma elections. This is a massive and historic achievement. Nothing will be the same again in Burmese politics. Over the past couple of days, a number (...)

Despair and defiance

Sushovan Dhar 06/05/15

Tea-garden workers in India and the oppressive conditions and obstacles in mobilising. India’s tea sector is driven in large part by Assam and West Bengal, which account for over 70 percent of the country’s tea production. There are at least one (...)

Burma : Battlefield to marketplace and back

David Brenner 15/04/15

In the 2008 film Rambo, a well-aged Sylvester Stallone gasped his way up the Salween River and through the thick jungle between Burma and Thailand. With the help of Karen freedom fighters, Stallone’s character, the redoubtable John Rambo, was (...)

India : Campus gender politics

Asmita Das 23/02/15

Universities are often seen as relatively safe spaces for students from all genders to interact more freely than they would be able to off campus. Many students get together to imagine a more equal society, one that does not tolerate (...)

Reconstructing Sri Lanka’s North

Ahilan Kadirgamar 20/01/15

A recent talk on the need for democratic mobilisation of resources and a politics of self-reflexivity in rebuilding Sri Lanka’s social institutions. Almost five years after the end of the war in Sri Lanka, the country’s North cannot be engaged (...)

Agroecology as an alternative to India’s failed agrarian system

Milind Wani 03/07/14

Last September, inflation, as indicated by the wholesale price index, rose to a seven-month high of 6.46 percent. Food inflation was at 18.4 percent, and was led by skyrocketing onion prices, which increased by a whopping 323 percent. While the (...)

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