As Nepal demands climate reparations after the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli flood, it needs greater domestic research and data capacity to make robust Loss and Damage claims before a recalcitrant global system
Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, recovers a forgotten history of anticolonial solidarity.
Southasian sex workers defied the iconic feminist’s view of “prostitution” as “commercial rape” – and built a movement for their own empowerment
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to respond has been compromised by its geopolitical divisions
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
Anuradha Roy’s new book chronicles more than two decades of life in a hill station in the Indian Himalaya, where the pleasures of home and the allure of the mountains are inseparable from ecological crisis
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
