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Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka: Part 2

Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka: Part 2

Enduring lessons from the Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s ‘Khushboo’

Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27

Shahrukh Alam & Harsh Mander on how India’s laws are being weaponised against Muslims

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Against forgetting. Against erasure.

The Muslim-left legacy of an Urdu library in Mumbai

Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander

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