@himalistan

@himalistan has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in July 2020. The social media accounts linked to from @himalistan are: • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Apple Podcasts • X • Bluesky • Website Besides social media accounts, himalistan has populated their site with: • Pollution and purity • How fascism works in India • State of Southasia podcast #36: Anjali Bhardwaj • Article: My “Namasudra Brahmin” family’s quest for caste dignity in Bangladesh • Article: Searching for Swadesh Deepak in Hindi literature • Article: How the Tablighi Jamaat is reshaping Khyber Pakhtunkhwah and opening doors for radicalisation • Article: Climate refugees from Bangladesh face a political storm in India • India’s massive failure to control pesticide overuse in cardamom and its spice trade • Purse-seiners, trawlers, and the epic fight over fishing in Tamil Nadu • Archive: Fifty years on, Sholay’s triumphs and flaws echo through Hindi cinema and Indian society • Article: How Annie Ernaux’s story parallels the struggles of local languages in Bihar • Review: Building Shabdakalpa, a pioneering digital Bengali dictionary • Article: Despite Wickremesinghe’s arrest, Sri Lanka’s politics is stuck in its old loop • Article: Why did Penguin India publish Admiral Karannagoda, alleged war criminal? • Article: Assassinated scholar M.M. Kalburgi’s intellectual battles • Article: Pakistan’s struggle to reshape its fiscal federalism • Article: Nepal's K P Oli government has murdered 19 in Gen Z protests • Article: Nepal’s deadly uprising reckons with failed political class • Article: Nepal’s journey from Gen Z protests to new government • Review: Poet Vidyan Ravinthiran on “Asian” diasporic identity • Archive: Snakebites surge across Southasia amid rising heat, floods and habitat loss • Article: Awaiting justice for broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah in Sri Lanka • Article: Indian women’s cricket’s long struggle for equality and World Cup glory • Article: The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings • Review: Salil Tripathi’s portrait of Gujarati pride and contradictions • Article: The dangers of Sri Lanka’s Israel nexus amid Gaza war • Article: Zubeen Garg’s lessons in life and in death for Assam and India • Review: Johnson & Johnson’s dark history in India and the USA • Article: Cyclone Ditwah and Sri Lanka’s disastrous response • December 2025 virtual cover: 🎩🥻Arundhati Roy in fact and fiction • State of Southasia podcast #37: Ayesha Jalal on Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment • Article: Myanmar’s 2025 election exposes the military junta’s failings • ARCHIVE: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • Himal's 2025 in Review • Himal Fiction Fest 2026: Southasian Fiction in Translation • Buddhist philosophy in Southasia and East Asia • The new power dynamic between India and Bangladesh • A near miss and climate reckoning in Nepal’s flood disaster • Anuradha Roy’s home in a Himalaya under ecological crisis • The climate warning from Nepal’s Rasuwa flood disaster • Bangladesh’s murky games to get Saima Wazed to the WHO • ‘Elephants in the Fog’ and the fight for trans rights in Nepal • Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage • Will Pakistan make a fatal mistake backing the United States against Iran? • Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka: Part 2 • End of Year DISCOUNT: Become a patron for 2026 ! • Change and dispossession • Article: What is the Belt and Road Initiative really? • Archive: 'Jawan’ treads with caution in an India on edge • Article: A social media timeline of Nepal’s Gen Z uprising • 2026 internship application • Nepal’s Langtang Valley offers lessons in disaster response • We're hiring a Social Media Editor! –––– Apply here • 'Southasia Youthquakes' transcript • The need for a Southasian perspective • Sign up for our newsletters! • Register for Screen Southasia Q&A with Rahul Jain • The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot • Southasia Review of Books podcast #30 • Sowmiya Ashok on what Keeladi tells us about India’s past: Southasia Review of Books #41 • Susan Banki on the battles of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees: State of Southasia #16 • A radical theory of jallikattu and Vijay’s rise in Tamil Nadu • Liquid power: On the feats and failings of Southasia’s attempts at regulating water • Article: DDLJ’s dubious 30-year legacy of soft-pedalled patriarchy • Local water management challenges Ken-Betwa Link in Bundelkhand • Support Himal today! • Screen Southasia: 'The Unreserved' • Review: Arundhati Roy’s memoir casts her writing career in a new light • Maruti Suzuki workers’ long protest for labour rights • “Slicing India”: New perspectives on India since 1947 • Why Pakistan is not a nation • Sign languages matter: National and endangered sign languages of Southasia • The Kabul hotel that tells a people’s history of Afghanistan • Gatecrashing the gurukuls • The languages of tea-estate workers in Southasia: Part 1 • The pursuit of the Southasian past - Himal Southasian • The paradox of Indian liberal thought on Kashmir and Article 370 • Sunsari shootings and Nepal police’s history of violence in the Madhesh • Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on the cultural archives of Gulf migration in Kerala: Southasia Review of Books podcast #19 • Why Meitei, Kuki and Naga violence persists in Manipur • The massive failures of India’s drug regulatory system • Silence in Swat • Jayati Ghosh on the USAID shocker and the politics of foreign aid: State of Southasia #19 • The Last of Earth’ and the real Himalaya of pundit explorers • Trump’s approach to Southasia bolsters China’s regional sway • The end of the myth that Kashmiris are free in Pakistan • How Bangladesh’s pharma revolution succeeded against the odds • Bangladesh’s Islamist resurgence threatens women’s rights • The caste train • How NEET paper leak and CJP protests shook Modi government • The devastating poetry of Tamil women who fought in Sri Lanka’s civil war • Sri Lanka’s war and migration in S Shakthidharan’s memoir • The incomplete end of Nepal’s Hindu monarchy • Mirza Waheed on writing beyond the radicalisation story: Southasia Review of Books #40 • We can only look forward… • Chandu Maheria on Gandhi’s complex role in Dalit history • Shifting the blame: A minority is framed again to cover Sri Lanka’s fault lines, in wake of the Easter attacks • Hindutva and the remaking of trans identity in India • ‘Holy’ cow and ‘unholy’ dalit • Subscribe to our newsletters • The Rajapaksas’ endless quest for power • The linguistic history of swearing in Southasia • Caste on the streets • How women became the new leaders of Baloch nationalism • Shock and awe: The many lives of Malayalam magical realism • Rahul Bhattacharya’s ‘Railsong’ and the Great Indian Novel • Reframing the Dalit experience • How power, caste and politics perverted Sri Lankan Buddhism • The roots of Banu Mushtaq’s literary rebellion • TM Krishna on Vijay, TVK and Tamil Nadu’s new politics • The political erasure of Indian Muslims • Joe Sacco on the book Penguin India wouldn’t distribute: Southasia Review of Books #39 • We Have Always Lived in the Temple: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • Writing Across Languages: Fiction and Translation • Will there finally be justice for Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr? • The neglected women and homes behind the great men of India • Podcast: Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling • Prabir Purkayastha’s fight against two Emergencies in India – under Modi and Indira Gandhi • The Waters Between Us: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • ‘The Shroud Thief’: A translated Kashmiri story by Amin Kamil • Artificial Emotion: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • Nepal’s women farmers struggle against old norms and climate change • Archive: The importance of being honest • A requiem for the Jaffna Library • Maoist destruction of cultural heritage in Nepal’s civil war • Archive: Bhutan took a step towards queer rights, but its LGBTIQ+ people want a giant leap • Footnotes | Roman Gautam speaks to Mihir Dalal on Arun Shourie and the making of Modi's India • The Water Diviner: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • Audrey Truschke and the politics of Southasian historiography • Archive: Where will all the young queers go? • The BJP win in West Bengal and the lie of bhadralok liberalism • The Pakistani Dalit • The BJP and Narendra Modi's race to a supermajority • The future of Bangladesh’s fragile media freedom • Footnotes | Bollywood, Hindu Nationalism & the Erasure of Muslim India • The Patch: Himal Fiction Fest 2025 • Satire as resistance under Chinese surveillance in Tibet • Archive: Queering Delhi • Himal Interviews: Wendy Doniger on myth and many Hinduisms • Podcast: Christophe Jaffrelot on the Emergency and India 50 years later • Manu Joseph’s empty gospel on the ills of liberal India • India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower Kashmiris • Vijay and the limits of cine stardom in Tamil Nadu politics • Archive: Between the verses • Subscribe to Southasia Review of Books • Twenty years without justice for murdered journalist Taraki Sivaram in Sri Lanka • Enduring lessons from the Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s ‘Khushboo’ • Southasia Weekly • Archive: Dissecting the American Desi • ARCHIVE: The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions • Archive: No going back • Job Application Details: Managing Editor • Article: The woman in the bathroom • Fiction Fest Panel #1: The state of speculative fiction in Southasia • Southasia Review of Books podcast #09: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on ‘Our City That Year’ and India’s invisible partitions • 'Saffron Siege': A podcast with Harsh Mander – Ram Puniyani • Modi’s foreign policy has expanded India–Nepal economic ties but border and socio-political contests persist • forms.gle • 'Southasia Youthquakes' panel discussion • November Virtual Cover: Saffron Siege • Southasiasphere: From protests in Gwadar to BBC documentary on Modi • Rebound or relapse: Debt restructuring in a time of crisis - Himal Southasian • What’s really behind Jammu and Kashmir’s new Family ID? - Himal Southasian • Sri Lanka’s Easter bombing verdict is reshaping politics and power - Himal Southasian • Will a new multiplex revive Kashmir’s cinema culture? - Himal Southasian • Adivasis in Chhattisgarh use technology to reclaim maps and forest rights - Himal Southasian • Southasia Climate Events Tracker - Himal Southasian • Yameen’s conviction, the Taliban ban on women's education, Kite Tales and more - Himal Southasian • What Southasia read in 2022 - Himal Southasian • The Muslim-left legacy of an Urdu library in Mumbai - Himal Southasian • A plot twist makes Pushpa Kamal Dahal prime minister of Nepal - Himal Southasian • Finding food in Chandrapur - Himal Southasian • The cotton candy man - Himal Southasian • Politics and Pakistan’s new army chief - Himal Southasian • The paanwallah - Himal Southasian • The hidden cost - Himal Southasian • Politics and the Hindi press - Himal Southasian • Roman Gautam to be new Editor of Himal Southasian - Himal Southasian • Queer notes on Begum Akhtar - Himal Southasian • The hidden cost of the FIFA World Cup • Beyond the binary - Himal Southasian • The artisans of Tambat Ali - Himal Southasian • Taliban regime under siege, within and without - Himal Southasian • Protests in Swat Valley, Kashmiri journalists barred from travel, Trijya and more. - Himal Southasian • One of us: Southasia's race to claim Rishi Sunak • Impeachment imbroglio - Himal Southasian • Tunnel to the future - Himal Southasian • A tool for oppression - Himal Southasian • Pakistan's Manchar lake - Himal Southasian • The impact of Karnataka’s hijab ban - Himal Southasian • The human dimension to Sri Lanka’s economic crisis - Himal Southasian • Submissions - Himal Southasian • Every vote counts in Kashmir - Himal Southasian • The regional impact of Iran's protests, Myanmar-Bangladesh border tensions, ‘Life Cycle’, and more. - Himal Southasian • Still standing - Himal Southasian • Digital surveillance - The impact of social media platforms in the global South • Membership - Himal Southasian • Ghar ki shaadi - Himal Southasian • Unpacking the floods in Pakistan - Himal Southasian • Social Surveillance: The impact of social media platforms in the Global South • Fighting for their lives: The story of India's HIV patients - Himal Southasian • Talking to Tehreek-i-Taliban - Himal Southasian • Integral yet dispensable - Himal Southasian • Of jejube vines, maishals and Kamatapur - Himal Southasian • A Year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan floods, Indian Matchmaking, and more. - Himal Southasian • Careers - Himal Southasian • Refusal and responsibility - Himal Southasian • Media neutrality in India: A balancing act - Himal Southasian • The islands of ideologies - Himal Southasian • Managing floods in Bangladesh - Himal Southasian • The second wave of migration - Himal Southasian • Nepal's biometric future - Himal Southasian • Notes on the Sri Lankan struggle - Himal Southasian • Why does Everest matter? - Himal Southasian • Nepal’s economic alarm bells - Himal Southasian • Buddhist anxieties in Bihar - Himal Southasian • Sri Lanka’s new president, by-elections in Punjab, ‘14 Peaks’ and more. - Himal Southasian • At the doors of the IMF - Himal Southasian • Submit to Himal Southasian! • India’s vanishing pasts - Himal Southasian • Will Ganatantra Mancha rock the boat? - Himal Southasian • WATCH | Explainer: What next if President Rajapaksa resigns? • What next if President Rajapaksa resigns? - Himal Southasian • The holy grail of language preservation - Himal Southasian • Kashmir Press Club Shutdown: Killing an institution • Making sense of Nepali politics - Himal Southasian • The machine that went rogue - Himal Southasian • No neutrality - Himal Southasian • Southasia’s climate crisis, violent crackdowns on protests, ‘Incantations Over Water’, and more. - Himal Southasian • Tamil Sikh - Himal Southasian • Selective truths - Himal Southasian • The craft of writing - Himal Southasian • Cinema and Resistance Twitter Space • A field day - Himal Southasian • Productively ‘perverse’ - Himal Southasian • What makes a journalist? - Himal Southasian • Escalating crisis in Sri Lanka, local elections in Nepal, Film Southasia 2022, and more. - Himal Southasian • An AFSPA free Northeast? - Himal Southasian • Himal Southasian’s Anti-Sexual-Harassment Policy - Himal Southasian • Beyond Pakistan's no-confidence motion - Himal Southasian • Himal Southasian YouTube Channel • The election-commission conundrum - Himal Southasian • Beyond Pakistan's No Confidence Motion • A Southasian filmmaker unlike any other - Himal Southasian • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES • Visit our website • Membership | Support independent journalism • Subscribe | SOUTHASIASPHERE podcast • Subscribe | Himal Southasian's fortnightly Newsletter