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

  1. Manan Ahmed Asif on Lahore as a city exiled from its pasts: Southasia Review of Books podcast #18

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    Manan Ahmed Asif on Lahore as a city exiled from its pasts: Southasia Review of Books podcast #18

    A conversation onLahore’s histories, the role of itinerancy, memory and violence, and the questions of state control and nationalism in Pakistan. https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/manan-ahmed-asif-lahore-pakistan-writing-history Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to the historian Manan Ahmed Asif about his new book Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore(The New Press, October 2024).  In Disrupted City, Asif parses Lahore’s centuries-old literary, social and cultural history and the ways in which these resonate today. From the role of memory and violence, as well the city’s people, their survival and questions of nationalism, he explores the impact of imperial and state power, dislocation and erasure on this Southasian city.  Inviting readers to walk with him across Lahore, Asif evokes a rich cast of figures and contemplates how the city has been made and unmade over the years, while challenging the narratives and erasures of the Pakistani nation-state and its larger project of re-writing history. This episode is now available on Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Youtube: We’re on a mission to give Southasian literature the spotlight it deserves. Become a paying Himal Patron for just USD 5/month to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://bit.ly/support-himal

    56 мин.
  2. Yasmin Sooka on truth and reconciliation in Sri Lanka: State of Southasia #18

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    Yasmin Sooka on truth and reconciliation in Sri Lanka: State of Southasia #18

    In December, the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), an international non-government organisation working to promote justice and accountability in Sri Lanka after its civil war, announced that it had in recent years submitted more than 60 sanction and travel ban requests against Sri Lankan officials and security personnel for alleged human rights violations committed during the country’s decades-long armed conflict and after it. The ITJP has sent these requests to countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the European Union and also the United Nations. The requests are based on the ITJP’s extensive documentation of violations that include extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, torture, and sexual violence. The people who the ITJP has requested sanctions against had various roles to play in these abuses and belong to the Sri Lankan military forces, paramilitary groups, civil servants – including judges and former government ministers – and also former members of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. In this episode of State of Southasia, Yasmin Sooka, a human rights lawyer and the executive director of the ITJP, speaks to Nayantara Narayanan about the sanction requests, the importance of accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka and her hopes from the country’s new political dispensation that there will be some movement towards transitional justice. Himal’s podcasts bring you the best conversations on Southasia. Become a paying Patron for just USD 5/month to support our work! https://payhere.lk/pay/oa7c71ca3 Episode notes Yasmin Sooka’s recommendations - No Fire Zone: In the killing fields of Sri Lanka by Callum Macrae (documentary film) - Muttrupulliya by Sherine Xavier (documentary film) - Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War by Frances Harrison (non-fiction) - Truth Commission: Special report broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (televised series) Further reading from Himal’s archives - Anatomy of a murder investigation – the Lasantha Wickrematunge case - The wait for justice for Nimalarajan Mylvaganam, murdered Jaffna journalist - The devastating poetry of Tamil women who fought in Sri Lanka’s civil war - The long wait for justice: On the chronic failures of criminal justice in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s complex dance of Sinhala and Tamil nationalist politics This episode is also available on YouTube, Apple podcasts and on the Himal website 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. 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/

    55 мин.
  3. Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17

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    Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17

    Uncovering her maternal ancestors’ past rooted in the Bhantu identity, the cinematographer and writer Nusrat F Jafri offers a rare account of the so-called criminal tribe, the circumstances of their conversions and the continuities of caste oppression in India today. himalmag.com/podcast/nusrat-jafri-caste-conversions-identity-india Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to Nusrat F Jafri about her memoirThis Land We Call Home: The Story Of A Family, Caste, Conversions And Modern India (Penguin, April 2024). In 1871, the British colonial regime in India enacted the Criminal Tribes Act, branding numerous tribes and caste groups as so-called “criminals”. InThis Land We Call Home, Nusrat traces the roots of her nomadic ancestors, the Bhantus from Rajasthan, who belonged to one such community in northwestern India. Through the stories of her relatives’ decisions to embrace new religions, the acts of defiance against caste-based oppression, and the pathbreaking women of her family, Nusrat offers an arresting portrait of an Indian family across generations, and also of modern India itself. We’re on a mission to give Southasian literature the spotlight it deserves. Become a paying Himal Patron for just USD 5/month to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://bit.ly/support-himal This episode is now available on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3EIvjw8Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3EvwwXQYoutube: https://youtu.be/h0CmkRTMMlo And wherever you listen to podcasts!

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  4. Kanupriya Dhingra on the survival of Old Delhi’s book bazaar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #16

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    Kanupriya Dhingra on the survival of Old Delhi’s book bazaar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #16

    A conversation with the book historian on how Daryaganj’s Patri Kitab Bazaar tells the story of Delhi’s urban aspirations, spatial politics and informal economies: https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/kanupriya-dhingra-delhi-daryaganj-book-bazaar Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to the book historian Kanupriya Dhingra about her recent monograph, Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge University Press, November 2024) Tucked in the lanes of Old Delhi, the Daryaganj Sunday Book Market is a name that’s familiar to many. Synonymous with the sale of used, rare and pirated books since the 1960s, the bazaar continues to evolve over the years of its several relocations and regulations.As a site of resilience and possibilities, the market also tells the story of Delhi’s urban aspirations, spatial politics, informal economies, and more. In this collective biography of the bazaar and its booksellers, Dhingra traces an ephemeral literary culture that has managed to survive in a world where printed words are as endangered as ever. This episode is now available on Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Youtube: https://youtu.be/1pYYSjfD6to We’re on a mission to give Southasian literature the spotlight it deserves. Become a paying Himal Patron for just USD 5/month to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://bit.ly/support-himal

    41 мин.
  5. Priyanka Dubey on the risks to journalists in India’s hinterlands: State of Southasia #17

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    Priyanka Dubey on the risks to journalists in India’s hinterlands: State of Southasia #17

    On 3 January, the body of Mukesh Chandrakar, a journalist in the Bastar region of India’s Chhattisgarh state, was found in a septic tank, bearing signs that he had been brutally killed. He had been missing for two days. Investigations into the case indicate that his murder is linked to his reporting for a national news channel about corruption in a road construction project. The main accused in the case is the project contractor, who also happens to be Mukesh’s cousin.  In 2011, Jyotirmoy Dey,  a crimes and investigations editor for  a newspaper in Mumbai who had written extensively on the city’s underworld, was shot dead  by armed men on a motorcycle. In 2016, Rajdeo Ranjan, a journalist in Siwan district in Bihar, was gunned down by assailants on motorcycles. In 2017, Gauri Lankesh, the editor of a Kannada language newspaper who was a vocal critic of right-wing politics, was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru.  Over the years, despite calls by media bodies for better protections, the risks for media workers have not reduced. The risks are greater for journalists like Chandrakar and Ranjan, who work in small towns and districts, who are less visible and have less access to support than their counterparts in big cities.    In this episode of State of Southasia, Priyanka Dubey, the journalist who reported on Ranjan’s murder in 2016 speaks to Nayantara Narayanan about the precarities of journalism in India’s hinterlands. Himal’s podcasts bring you the best conversations on Southasia. Become a paying Patron for just USD 5/ month to support our work: bit.ly/support-himal Further reading from Himal’s archives: State of Southasia #05: Laxmi Murthy on journalism in crisis across Southasia Rana Ayyub on the dangers of doing journalism in India The political economy of reporting on the War on Terror in the Afghanistan–Pakistan borderlands Keeping journalism alive in Kashmir The crisis in Pakistani journalism Letter from Myanmar: Journalism under attack Sign up for Himal’s newsletters here to get updates on our latest podcasts.

    37 мин.
  6. Weena Pun on the invisibility of women in Nepal’s society and literature: Southasia Review of Books podcast #15

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    Weena Pun on the invisibility of women in Nepal’s society and literature: Southasia Review of Books podcast #15

    A conversation with the Nepali-born writer on her debut novel ‘Kanchhi’, and capturing the realities of women’s lives in rural Nepal. https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/weena-pun-kanchhi-women-rural-nepal-literature Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to Weena Pun about her new debut novel Kanchhi (Hachett India, September 2024). In Torikhola in the western midhills of Nepal, Kanchhi, the only daughter of her single mother, is at odds with the rules and customs of her hamlet and opposes the shame imposed on her ambitions and curiosity. One November morning she leaves home, and that is the last anybody sees of her. A decade later, Maiju still prays for her daughter’s return. This heart-wrenching coming-of-age story follows Kanchhi and her mother negotiating life and societal pressures in rural Nepal. And as much as the book looks closely at women’s place in Nepali society, it also captures the realities of life in the hamlet Kanchhi is from, and the socio-political reasons for Kanchhi’s disappearance.  This episode is now available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4h0HUJA Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3PJFumC Youtube: https://youtu.be/uB0DNnfBY94 We’re on a mission to give Southasian literature the spotlight it deserves. Become a paying Himal Patron for just USD 5/month to support the Southasia Review of Books: bit.ly/support-himal

    43 мин.
  7. Susan Banki on the battles of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees: State of Southasia #16

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    Susan Banki on the battles of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees: State of Southasia #16

    Bhutan’s Nepali-speaking diaspora, created by the expulsion of the Lhotshampa in the 1990s, can help the country’s tottering economy, the researcher says – if the Bhutan government were ready to reach out. In the introduction to her book The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan’s Homeland Activists, Susan Banki, a researcher of the international refugee system, tells the story of Bhakta Ghimire, a homeland activist from the community of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese. In the early 1990s, Ghimire was a young man working in a cement factory in Samste, in southern Bhutan. One day, he heard rumours that Bhutan’s ethnic Nepalis – also known as the Lhotshampa – were being evicted from their homes following a national census exercise. He rushed to his parents house to find it empty, crossed into India to find them, and eventually joined the stream of Nepali Bhutanese leaving Bhutan.    Tens of thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homes in southern Bhutan after a citizenship policy disenfranchised them, a cultural policy imposed Bhutan’s dominant Drukpa traditions – including clothing norms – on them, and a census exercise forced them from their homes. These families have lived as refugees in Nepal, India and other parts of the world – many in precarious conditions in refugee camps, others resettling in countries such as the United States and Australia. And activists like Ghimire have been asking for the right to return to Bhutan. On this episode of State of Southasia, Banki speaks to Nayantara Narayanan about the status of these refugees today, the history of the Lhotshampa question and why Bhutan’s king and government are missing an opportunity by not reaching out to the Nepali Bhutanese community amid Bhutan’s current economic troubles. She says that Bhutan’s Nepali-speaking diaspora, created by the expulsion and refugee crisis of the 1990s, can help the country’s tottering economy with remittances and through exchange programmes, if the government were to reach out to them. Himal’s podcasts bring you the best conversations on Southasia. Become a paying Patron for just USD 5/ month to support our work: bit.ly/support-himal This podcast is now available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4gL5Y2W Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3WfoLLJ Youtube: https://youtu.be/h5HS0e7CE9w Website: himalmag.com/podcast/nepali-bhutanese-lhotshampa-refugees-diaspora-susan-banki

    51 мин.
  8. Sadaf Wani on the lifeworlds of Srinagar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #14

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    Sadaf Wani on the lifeworlds of Srinagar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #14

    In her biography of the city, the Kashmiri writer highlights the complications of Srinagar’s identity and recentres the everyday lives of its people, particularly women. https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/srinagar-kashmir-identity-women-memory-tourism-history-sadaf-wani Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwetha Srikanthan, speaks to the Kashmiri writer Sadaf Wani about her new book City as Memory: A Short Biography of Srinagar (Aleph Book Company, June 2024).  Srinagar, in its changing forms, has been the centre of political and cultural activity in Kashmir for centuries. The city has a rich history that has been overshadowed by its turbulent political past and present, which  has shaped all readings and accounts of the place.  Without losing sight of the ongoing political conflict and militarisation in India-administered Kashmir, Wani offers a corrective. In her biography of the city, she explores the collective historical, cultural and personal memories of Srinagar. From its cultures of leisure to the manufactured “normalcy” of life in Srinagar today, Wani unpacks how the city’s people, and its women in particular, are reclaiming their narratives.   We’re on a mission to give Southasian literature the spotlight it deserves. Become a paying Himal Patron for just USD 5/month to support the Southasia Review of Books: https://bit.ly/support-himal This episode is now available on 🎧Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4a6WEDX 🎧Youtube: https://youtu.be/38PoFGJkwEw 🎧Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4a9aRk3

    49 мин.
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