Himal Southasian Podcast Channel

Himal Southasian Podcast Channel

Podcasts from Himal Southasian – Southasia's magazine of politics and culture, since 1987.

  1. Ahmed Naish on Maldives’s controversial new media regulation law: State of Southasia #34

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    Ahmed Naish on Maldives’s controversial new media regulation law: State of Southasia #34

    On 18 September, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu ratified a new media law aimed at streamlining media regulation and seeking to curb disinformation. The law allowed the creation of a new commission with extensive powers, including the ability to block news websites, suspend media outlets’ registrations, issue fines to journalists and criminalise vague offences such as spreading fake news. There was a huge outcry in the country against the controversial bill that critics say could muzzle the media and stifle free speech. The journalists associations pledged to defy the bill, the main opposition party called for protests against it and a global press freedom group urged Muizzu to veto the legislation. Yet Muizzu’s government, which enjoys a supermajority, was able to push the bill through parliament. In this episode of State of Southasia, Ahmed Naish, editor of the Maldives Independent, talks to Nayantara Narayanan about the provisions of concern in the new law, including the creation of a commission that will act as a “super regulator”, the code of ethics that might be instituted for media organisations to follow and the broad and vague language of the law that might alow the government to persecute critical media on flimsy grounds. You can also listen to this episode on: 🎧 YouTube: https://youtu.be/h-3fKG2q7QI 🎧 Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/4nTrO7S Episode notes: Ahmed Naish’s recommendations: - The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy – JJ Robinson (non-fiction) - Descent into Paradise – Daniel Bosley (non-fiction) - The Island President - John Shenk (documentary film) Further reading from Himal’s archives: JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”: State of Southasia #25 Youth protests take on the Maldives’s political culture after a woman’s fall Interview: The Maldives makes a turn with new president Mohamed Muizzu Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives The Maldives’ ruling party is fighting itself and the opposition in the race for president Unpacking the Maldives’ Transitional Justice Act Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Support our independent journalism and become a Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Find us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    37 мин.
  2. Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women

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    Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women

    The feminist historian Tanika Sarkar speaks to Harsh Mander about the role of women in the #RSS, the organisation's view on gender and its reinforcement of patriarchy. Sarkar describes the creation of the RSS's women's wing, the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, and how it evolved over the years. She also speaks about the women leaders have emerged in the Hindutva fold to gain strategic power in the RSS's project of hate. You can watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ghjTuQco4vw This episode is part of Season Two of Partitions of the Heart. In this season, Harsh Mander speaks to leading scholars and observers who have studied the RSS closely. Together, they examine its roots and core principles, its Hindutva agenda, and its corrosive role in India’s public and social life across a century. “Saffron Siege” runs from 17 September to 3 December 2025, with a new episode releasing every Wednesday. Himal’s podcasts are available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Production: Imaad ul Hasan, Ayushi Malik, Lydia Smith, Ritika Chauhan, Nayantara Narayanan Support Himal Podcasts and Himal's independent journalism for just USD 5 per month: https://payhere.lk/pay/oee1bdaf1 Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Support our independent journalism and become a Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Find us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    1 ч. 4 мин.
  3. Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindu Rashtra today

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    Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindu Rashtra today

    In this writer Aakar Patel and journalist Rana Ayyub examine with Harsh Mander whether India under Narendra Modi has transformed into a Hindu Rashtra or and to what extent does India’s secular socialist democracy still endures. You can watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P3mb8QO9uDU This episode is part of Season Two of Partitions of the Heart. In this season, Harsh Mander speaks to leading scholars and observers who have studied the RSS closely. Together, they examine its roots and core principles, its Hindutva agenda, and its corrosive role in India’s public and social life across a century. “Saffron Siege” runs from 17 September to 3 December 2025, with a new episode releasing every Wednesday. Himal’s podcasts are available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Production: Imaad ul Hasan, Lydia Smith, Ritika Chauhan, Nayantara Narayanan Support Himal Podcasts and Himal's independent journalism for just USD 5 per month: https://payhere.lk/pay/oee1bdaf1 Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Support our independent journalism and become a Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Find us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    1 ч. 7 мин.
  4. Aatish Taseer on exile and the idea of return: Southasia Review of Books podcast #34

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    Aatish Taseer on exile and the idea of return: Southasia Review of Books podcast #34

    Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan speaks to the writer Aatish Taseer on history, syncretism and the search for belonging at the heart of his new book, A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile (HarperCollins Fourth Estate India, July 2025). https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/aatish-taseer-history-exile-return-to-self In 2019, the Indian government under Narendra Modi revoked the writer Aatish Taseer’s Overseas Citizenship, exiling him from the country where he had grown up and lived for thirty years. This loss prompted a journey revisiting the places that shaped his identity, exploring broader questions of the ties that bind us to home.  Spanning Istanbul to Uzbekistan, the high Andes to Mongolia, Taseer’s new book, A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile traces a life shaped by displacement and curiosities. He examines how overlapping pasts of culture, migration, and faith shapes both people and places, and what it means to exist in societies scarred by prejudice, exclusion and a contempt of history.  This episode is now available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kXecyexfed8 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4nC6unj Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kW2u2LhfxK1AR86405Z52 ✨Thank you for listening to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian. If you like this episode, please share widely, rate, review, subscribe and download the show on your favourite podcast apps. ✉️Let’s keep the conversation going – please share your thoughts on the episode. Leave us a comment on Youtube or write to us at editorial@himalmag.com.📼If you haven’t already, do subscribe to the Himal Southasian YouTube channel and help us spread the word by sharing these episodes widely.🙏🏼 To make conversations like this possible, we need the support of our listeners like you. Become a paying Himal Patron to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal📚 Sign up to receive the Southasia Review of Books newsletter for Himal’s spotlight on Southasian literature, our latest conversations, and more: https://bit.ly/southasia-review-of-books

    48 мин.
  5. Mridula Mukherjee, Vinay Lal & Harsh Mander on the RSS ideologues

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    Mridula Mukherjee, Vinay Lal & Harsh Mander on the RSS ideologues

    In this episode, Harsh Mander speaks to historians Mridula Mukherjee and Vinay Lal about the origins of the RSS, the ideologies of its founders, the it played (and did not play) in India’s freedom struggle, and its role during the Partition riots. Mukherjee talks about how in pre-independence India, the idea that Hindus must constitute a separate nation that opposed including minorities already existed and the RSS was set up in 1925 with the purpose of forming a militant group – directly inspired by Europe’s fascists – that would form its ideological core. Lal points to how the RSS ideologue, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, wanted to “militarise Hindudom” to counter the British attempt to portray Indians as effeminate – which is an important reason why the RSS focuses on physical culture and hyper-masculinity. You can watch the video of this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7VbD_HMJF-8 This episode is part of Season Two of Partitions of the Heart. In this season, Harsh Mander speaks to leading scholars and observers who have studied the RSS closely. Together, they examine its roots and core principles, its Hindutva agenda, and its corrosive role in India’s public and social life across a century. “Saffron Siege” runs from 17 September to 3 December 2025, with a new episode releasing every Wednesday. Himal’s podcasts are available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Production: Imaad ul Hassan, Ayushi Malik, Lydia Smith, Ritika Chauhan, Nayantara Narayanan Support Himal Podcasts and Himal's independent journalism for just USD 5 per month: https://payhere.lk/pay/oee1bdaf1 Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Support our independent journalism and become a Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Find us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    1 ч. 8 мин.
  6. Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33

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    Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33

    Since June, Pakistan has experienced yet another season of severe monsoon flooding, with particularly heavy impacts across the Punjab region. Flood waters and landslides have claimed many hundreds of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The Pakistan Disaster Management Authority announced that, by 10 September, that 900 people had died and about four million were impacted by the floods. The 2025 floods mark the third major event in the past 15 years – following the catastrophic flooding of 2010 and 2022. Climate change-induced weather phenomena are making extreme rainfall more common. But there is also unplanned development and dam mismanagement that are turning these extreme events into disasters. In this episode of State of Southasia, Daanish Mustafa, a professor of critical geography and an expert on hydropolitics talks to Nayantara Narayanan about how climatic variability, unregulated development, and colonial water governance intersect to exacerbate Pakistan and other Southasian countries’ vulnerabilities to floods. Mustafa questions planning paradigms that rely on statistical "normality" and outdated colonial models and advocates for a shift toward participatory, democratic forms of environmental governance, grounded in local knowledge systems, social equity, and an understanding of water as both an ecological and cultural entity. You can also listen to this episode on: 🎧 YouTube: https://youtu.be/_6rWl2S8yxM 🎧 Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3WboIQn Episode notes: Daanish Mustafa’s recommendations: The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers - Vox (video) The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition - Aloys Arthur Michel (non-fiction) Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India - Rohan D’Souza (non-fiction) Further reading from Himal’s archives: Pakistan loses nothing from India’s suspension of the Indus Waters TreatyUnpacking the floods in PakistanManaging floods in BangladeshExplainer: Why embankments won’t solve Nepal’s flood woesIs Kerala’s pokkali the rice of the future?  Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Support our independent journalism and become a Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Find us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    43 мин.
  7. Apoorvanand & Harsh Mander: The RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948

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    Apoorvanand & Harsh Mander: The RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948

    In this episode of "Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100", Apoorvanand discusses how the Hindu and Hindutva common sense kept the RSS popular even though it was banned after Gandhi's assassination in 1948. He talks to Harsh Mander about how it emerged from the shadows of being a banned organisation, how it grew from strength to strength through the 1960s, 1970s up till 2014 when Narendra Modi became prime minister, and the leaders who legitimised it along the way. You can watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Osrg7Zy0GP4 This episode is part of Season Two of Partitions of the Heart. In this season, Harsh Mander speaks to leading scholars and observers who have studied the RSS closely. Together, they examine its roots and core principles, its Hindutva agenda, and its corrosive role in India’s public and social life across a century. “Saffron Siege” runs from 17 September to 3 December 2025, with a new episode releasing every Wednesday. Himal’s podcasts are available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Production: Imaad ul Hassan, Ayushi Malik, Lydia Smith, Ritika Chauhan, Nayantara Narayanan Support Himal Podcasts and Himal's independent journalism for just USD 5 per month: https://payhere.lk/pay/oee1bdaf1 Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this region of more than 1.4 billion people shares great swathes of interlocking geography, culture and history. Yet today neighbouring countries can barely talk to one another, much less speak in a common voice. For three decades, Himal Southasian has strived to define, nurture, and amplify that voice. Read more: https://www.himalmag.com/ Become a paying Patron of Himal: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himalFind us on: https://twitter.com/Himalistan https://www.facebook.com/himal.southasian https://www.instagram.com/himalistan/

    1 ч. 2 мин.
  8. Shahnaz Ahsan on food, identity and the Bangladeshi diaspora Southasia Review of Books podcast #33

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    Shahnaz Ahsan on food, identity and the Bangladeshi diaspora Southasia Review of Books podcast #33

    In her new book ‘The Jackfruit Chronicles’, the award-winning food writer Shahnaz Ahsan invites us into her family’s British-Bangladeshi kitchen, showing how food carries both resistance and remembrance, and reflects the complexities of diasporic life in Britain: https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/shahnaz-ahsan-food-bangladesh-diaspora Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan speaks to the award-winning food writer Shahnaz Ahsan about her new book, The Jackfruit Chronicles: Memories and Recipes from a British-Bangladeshi Kitchen (Harper Collins, July 2025).  Part memoir, part cookbook, The Jackfruit Chronicles is a deeply personal exploration of food, family and identity. Through stories and recipes, Shahnaz documents the vibrant flavours and captivating stories of Bengali food and its place in Britain. Beginning with the arrival of her grandfather in Manchester in the 1950s, the book traces not only one family’s journey, but also the wider story of the Bangladeshi diaspora’s search for home and belonging. This episode is now available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GnWLGrFyB3A Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SwZazJ5odQSPuQrTrY9vd Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4n8PQvk Let’s keep the conversation going – please share your thoughts on the episode. Leave us a comment here on Youtube or send me an email (shwethas[at]himalmag[dot]com). To make conversations like this possible, we need the support of our listeners like you. Become a paying Himal Patron to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://www.himalmag.com/support-himal Sign up to receive the Southasia Review of Books newsletter for Himal’s spotlight on Southasian literature, our latest conversations, and more: https://bit.ly/southasia-review-of-books

    53 мин.
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Podcasts from Himal Southasian – Southasia's magazine of politics and culture, since 1987.

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