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

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Nepal Elections 2026: Parties, Power, and the Promise of Change | Himal Conversations
Feb 28, 2026
The high stakes of the 2026 Bangladesh election | Nusmila Lohani and Zyma Islam
Feb 11, 2026
Felix Pal, Christophe Jaffrelot & Tanika Sarkar on the RSS’s hidden network
Jan 07, 2026
Ayesha Jalal on Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment: State of Southasia #37
Dec 22, 2025
Nirvana Bhandary on what it means to be a feminist in Nepal today: Southasia Review of Books podcast #38
Dec 15, 2025
Ram Puniyani & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s entrenched influence on India’s polity
Dec 03, 2025
Purushottam Agrawal & Harsh Mander on why the RSS hates Nehru, and more
Nov 26, 2025
Anjali Bhardwaj on misgivings over India’s Election Commission: State of Southasia #36
Nov 24, 2025
Thomas Blom Hansen, Qurban Ali & Harsh Mander on the RSS’s role in communal violence
Nov 19, 2025
Dur e Aziz Amna on writing a story of womanhood and ambition in Pakistan: Southasia Review of Books podcast #37
Nov 17, 2025
Bhanwar Meghwanshi & Harsh Mander on Dalits and the RSS
Nov 12, 2025
T M Krishna & Harsh Mander on Tamil Nadu’s resistance of the RSS
Nov 05, 2025
Ma Thida on Myanmar’s unfinished struggle for democracy: Southasia Review of Books podcast #36
Nov 03, 2025
Akshaya Mukul, Kunal Purohit & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindutva’s propaganda machinery
Oct 29, 2025
Sharda Ugra on the rise (and the challenges) of women’s cricket: State of Southasia #35
Oct 27, 2025
Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis
Oct 22, 2025
Amrita Mahale on writing a Himalayan literary mystery: Southasia Review of Books podcast #35
Oct 21, 2025
Ahmed Naish on Maldives’s controversial new media regulation law: State of Southasia #34
Oct 16, 2025
Tanika Sarkar & Harsh Mander on the RSS, Hindutva and women
Oct 15, 2025
Aakar Patel, Rana Ayyub and Harsh Mander on the RSS and Hindu Rashtra today
Oct 08, 2025
Aatish Taseer on exile and the idea of return: Southasia Review of Books podcast #34
Oct 06, 2025
Mridula Mukherjee, Vinay Lal & Harsh Mander on the RSS ideologues
Oct 01, 2025
Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33
Sep 29, 2025
Apoorvanand & Harsh Mander: The RSS's emergence from the shadows after 1948
Sep 24, 2025
Shahnaz Ahsan on food, identity and the Bangladeshi diaspora: Southasia Review of Books podcast #33
Sep 22, 2025
Rajmohan Gandhi & Harsh Mander: Gandhi and the RSS
Sep 17, 2025
GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32
Sep 15, 2025
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
Sep 08, 2025
Marlon Ariyasinghe on Ranil Wickremesinghe’s arrest and Sri Lanka’s political morass: State of Southasia #31
Sep 01, 2025
Vishwambhari Parmar on Gujarati pulp fiction: Southasia Review of Books podcast #31
Aug 27, 2025
Harsh Mander's big takeaways from "Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi's India"
Aug 27, 2025
Zeyad Masroor Khan & Harsh Mander on riots, Muslim ghettos, boycotts and expulsions
Aug 20, 2025
Zahra Nader on Iran’s brutal deportations of Afghan refugees: State of Southasia #30
Aug 18, 2025
Manoj Jha & Harsh Mander on India’s politics of fear and division
Aug 13, 2025
Ipsita Chakravarty on resistance, remembrance and storytelling in Kashmir: Southasia Review of Books podcast #30
Aug 11, 2025
Syeda Hameed & Harsh Mander on Partition, pluralism and poetry
Aug 06, 2025
Maximillian Morch on the disquiet behind Bhutan’s Geluphu Mindfulness City: State of Southasia #29
Aug 04, 2025
Saeed Mirza & Harsh Mander on the decades-long erosion of the idea of India
Jul 30, 2025
Wendy Doniger on importance of understanding other peoples’ myths: Southasia Review of Books podcast #29
Jul 28, 2025
Mohsin Alam Bhat & Harsh Mander on the threat to Muslims as a crisis for India’s democracy
Jul 23, 2025
Umesh Moramudali on Southasia and the Trump tariffs: State of Southasia #28
Jul 21, 2025
Irfan Habib & Harsh Mander on the decay of socialism and secularism in India and more
Jul 16, 2025
Alina Gufran on millennial precarity and unbelonging in urban India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #28
Jul 14, 2025
Aman Wadud & Harsh Mander on the plight of Bengali Muslims in Assam
Jul 09, 2025
Samina Luthfa on the battles of women in a new Bangladesh: State of Southasia #27
Jul 07, 2025
Shahrukh Alam & Harsh Mander on how India’s laws are being weaponised against Muslims
Jul 02, 2025
Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27
Jun 30, 2025
Seema Chishti & Harsh Mander on media-fuelled Islamophobia and the “love jihad” fallacy
Jun 25, 2025
Christophe Jaffrelot on the Emergency and India 50 years later
Jun 23, 2025
Amirullah Khan & Harsh Mander on the deprivation of India’s Muslims
Jun 18, 2025
Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling: Southasia Review of Books podcast #26
Jun 16, 2025
Hilal Ahmed & Harsh Mander: Indian Muslims' marginalisation and the myth of appeasement
Jun 11, 2025
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
Jun 09, 2025
Afreen Fatima & Harsh Mander: Bulldozers, the hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
Jun 04, 2025
Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25
Jun 02, 2025
Vidya Krishnan on how India's politics magnified its Covid-19 death toll: State of Southasia #24
May 26, 2025
Thomas Bell on a walking history of the Himalayan landscape: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24
May 19, 2025
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #21
May 12, 2025
Michelle de Kretser on her new novel, ‘Theory & Practice’: Southasia Review of Books podcast #23
May 05, 2025
Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22
Apr 28, 2025
Rahul Bhatia on India’s turn towards authoritarianism: Southasia Review of Books podcast #22
Apr 21, 2025
Pranaya Rana on Nepal’s royalist resurgence: State of Southasia #21
Apr 14, 2025
Anand Teltumbde on the contested legacy of B R Ambedkar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #21
Apr 07, 2025
Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya’s endless troubles in Bangladesh: State of Southasia #20
Mar 31, 2025
The Sri Lankan-Pākehā writer Saraid de Silva on her Women’s Prize longlisted novel ‘Amma’: Southasia Review of Books podcast #20
Mar 24, 2025
Jayati Ghosh on USAID the politics of foreign aid: State of Southasia #19
Mar 17, 2025
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil on the cultural archives of Gulf migration in Kerala: Southasia Review of Books podcast #19
Mar 10, 2025
Manan Ahmed Asif on Lahore as a city exiled from its pasts: Southasia Review of Books podcast #18
Feb 24, 2025
Yasmin Sooka on truth and reconciliation in Sri Lanka: State of Southasia #18
Feb 17, 2025
Nusrat F Jafri on a personal history of caste and conversions in India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #17
Feb 10, 2025
Kanupriya Dhingra on the survival of Old Delhi’s book bazaar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #16
Feb 03, 2025
Priyanka Dubey on the risks to journalists in India’s hinterlands: State of Southasia #17
Jan 27, 2025
Weena Pun on the invisibility of women in Nepal’s society and literature: Southasia Review of Books podcast #15
Jan 20, 2025
Susan Banki on the battles of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees: State of Southasia #16
Jan 13, 2025
Sadaf Wani on the lifeworlds of Srinagar: Southasia Review of Books podcast #14
Jan 07, 2025
Southasia in review 2024
Dec 23, 2024
State of Southasia #15: Sana Batool on anti-Shia violence in Pakistan
Dec 16, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #13: Tariq Ali on a life in writing and dissent
Dec 09, 2024
State of Southasia #14: Patricia Mukhim on Manipur’s unending crisis
Dec 02, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #12: Ari Gautier on the dark side of Pondicherry
Nov 25, 2024
State of Southasia #13: Pankaj Sekhsaria on India’s Great Nicobar misadventure
Nov 18, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #11: Sex, scandal and the death of a poet in 1970s Karachi
Nov 10, 2024
State of Southasia #12: Hurmat Ali Shah on Pashtuns and the Pakistani state
Nov 04, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #10: Zara Chowdhary on ‘The Lucky Ones’ and surviving the violence of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom
Oct 27, 2024
State of Southasia #11: Jyoti Rahman on rebuilding democracy in Bangladesh
Oct 20, 2024
SaRB #09: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on ‘Our City That Year’
Oct 14, 2024
State of Southasia #10: Ambika Satkunanathan on the landmark political shift in Sri Lanka
Sep 30, 2024
State of Southasia #09: Anna M M Vetticad on the gender reckoning in Malayalam cinema
Sep 16, 2024
SaRB #08: The Afghan women writers who bore witness to the fall of Kabul
Sep 09, 2024
State of Southasia #08: Kate Clark on how Afghans are coping after three years of Taliban rule
Aug 26, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #7: Neha Dixit
Aug 12, 2024
State of Southasia #07: Ali Riaz on Bangladesh’s mass protests
Jul 29, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #06: Vajra Chandrasekera
Jul 15, 2024
State of Southasia #06: Harsh Mander on fighting the Hindu right’s social project of hate in India
Jul 01, 2024
Screen Southasia: Q/A on 'Split Ends' with filmmaker Rajan Kathet
Jun 19, 2024
Southasia Review of Books podcast #05: Siddhartha Deb on India’s macabre new realities
Jun 17, 2024
Himal Fiction Fest 2024: The future of Southasian Fiction in Translation
Jun 12, 2024
State of Southasia #05: Journalism in crisis across Southasia
Jun 03, 2024
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #04: Sumana Roy on literature from the Southasian provinces
May 20, 2024
State of Southasia #04: Counting the costs of another historic heatwave in Southasia
May 06, 2024
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #03: Taha Kehar on Southasian mystery novels
Apr 22, 2024
State of Southasia #03: Aakar Patel on the unprecedented threats to India’s election
Apr 08, 2024
Southasian Conversation: The costs of Reliance's wildlife ambitions
Apr 05, 2024
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #02: Smriti Ravindra on ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’
Mar 25, 2024
State of Southasia #02: Ayesha Siddiqa on Pakistan’s election and its message for the military
Mar 11, 2024
Southasia Review of Books Podcast #01: V V Ganeshananthan on Brotherless Night
Feb 26, 2024
SCREEN SOUTHASIA: Q/A session on 'Demons in Paradise' with Jude Ratnam
Feb 19, 2024
State of Southasia #01: Anand Patwardhan on the Ram Mandir and the long life of the ‘Ram ke naam’
Feb 12, 2024
INTERVIEW: Unpacking India’s caste census
Feb 04, 2024
Podcast: Cracks in the INDIA alliance, Pakistan accuses India of targeted assassinations, and more
Feb 03, 2024
Southasiasphere 20 Jan: India out of Maldives, elections in Bangladesh and Bhutan and more
Jan 20, 2024
INTERVIEW: India and Israel’s deepening ties and the implications for Southasia
Jan 14, 2024
Southasiasphere 6 Jan: India’s hit and run law, the launch of XPoSAT, and more
Jan 07, 2024
Southasiasphere 25 Dec: INDIA Opposition MPs suspended, Imran Khan’s virtual rally and more
Dec 25, 2023
INTERVIEW: COP28, the transition from fossil fuels and the Loss and Damage fund
Dec 23, 2023
Himal Interviews: Bangladesh’s one-sided parliamentary elections, crackdown on political opposition
Dec 18, 2023
Southasiasphere 4 Dec: Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban, Myanmar’s armed groups expose junta’s weakness
Dec 04, 2023
Southasiasphere 17 Nov: Armed groups challenge Myanmar’s military junta, Sri Lanka’s 2024 budget
Nov 19, 2023
Southasiasphere 5 Nov: Digital surveillance of Indian opposition, Nawaz Sharif’s return, and more
Nov 05, 2023
Southasiasphere, 22 Oct: Fresh scrutiny on Adani group, Afghan refugees in Pakistan face deportation
Oct 22, 2023
Southasiasphere 4 Oct 2023: Delhi Police raid on Newsclick, elections in the Maldives, and more
Oct 05, 2023
Southasiasphere, 20 Sep: G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings
Sep 20, 2023
Southasiasphere, 6 September: The Kashmir Walla and media freedom, Bhutan-China boundary talks, more
Sep 06, 2023
Southasiasphere, 23 Aug: Elections in the Maldives and Pakistan, economic boycotts in Haryana, more
Aug 23, 2023
Southasiasphere, 9 August: The Bajaur bombing, India’s ban on rice exports, and more
Aug 09, 2023
Southasiasphere, 26 July: Sexual violence in Manipur, Bangladesh protests and repression, and more
Jul 26, 2023
SCREEN SOUTHASIA: Q&A session with the filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Jul 13, 2023
Southasiasphere, 12 July: Crackdowns on online publishers, debt restructuring in Pakistan and SL
Jul 12, 2023
Modi’s US visit, Pakistani migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Myanmar’s flower strike and more
Jun 28, 2023
Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘The Next Guardian’
Jun 19, 2023
Southasiasphere, 12 June: Odisha train crash, the abduction of Jibran Nasir, and more
Jun 13, 2023
Southasiasphere, 30 May: The fallout of violence in Manipur and Bangladesh’s economic crisis
May 31, 2023
Southasiasphere, 16 May: Violence in Manipur, Imran Khan's arrest, the Karnataka elections and more
May 17, 2023
Screen Southasia: Q&A session for 'Is it too much to ask?'
May 11, 2023
Southasiasphere, 2 May: Marriage equality in India, fencing the Durand line, and more
May 03, 2023
Southasiasphere, 18 April: Air strikes in Myanmar, restrictions on women in Afghanistan, and more
Apr 19, 2023
Adani In Southasia
Apr 18, 2023
Screen Southasia: Q&A session with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten
Apr 12, 2023
Southasiasphere, 4 April: The Doklam dispute, Rahul Gandhi's conviction and more
Apr 05, 2023
Southasiasphere, 20 March: Imran Khan’s attempted arrest, UN appeal for Afghanistan aid and more
Mar 22, 2023
Southasiasphere, 6 March: Election in the Northeast, Bangladesh’s deal with Adani Power and ‘Gaadi’
Mar 08, 2023
The Rohingya crisis at sea, and beyond
Mar 02, 2023
Southasiasphere, 20 Feb: Delayed elections in Sri Lanka, tax raids on BBC in India and more
Feb 22, 2023
How can Pakistan end the military’s role in politics?
Feb 15, 2023
Southasiasphere, 6 Feb: Silent strikes in Myanmar, rising militancy and debt in Pakistan and more
Feb 08, 2023
Southasiasphere, 25 Jan: Protests in Gwadar, a BBC documentary on Modi, Tamil fiction in translation
Jan 25, 2023
Rebound or relapse: Debt restructuring in a time of crisis
Jan 25, 2023
Southasiasphere, 11 Jan: Yameen’s conviction, the Taliban ban on women's education and Kite Tales
Jan 11, 2023
Nepal elections, Pakistan's new Army Chief, ‘Moshari’, and more
Dec 16, 2022
The hidden cost
Dec 06, 2022
Protests in Swat Valley, Kashmiri journalists barred from travel, Trijya and more
Nov 04, 2022
The human dimension to Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
Oct 14, 2022
The regional impact of Iran's protests, Myanmar-Bangladesh border tensions, ‘Life Cycle’, and more
Oct 07, 2022
Social surveillance
Sep 30, 2022
Unpacking the floods in Pakistan
Sep 23, 2022
A Year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan floods, Indian Matchmaking and more
Sep 02, 2022
Sri Lanka’s new president, by-elections in Punjab, ‘14 Peaks’ and more
Jul 22, 2022
At the doors of the IMF
Jul 21, 2022
Southasia’s climate crisis, violent crackdowns on protests, ‘Incantations Over Water’, and more.
Jun 16, 2022
Escalating crisis in Sri Lanka, local elections in Nepal, Film Southasia 2022, and more.
May 10, 2022
Beyond Pakistan's no-confidence motion
May 04, 2022
Economic fallout of Russia’s war on Ukraine, food insecurity in Afghanistan & Bhutan's Oscar entry.
Mar 18, 2022
Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia (Audio article)
Mar 04, 2022
Southasia and the IMF, crackdowns on the press in Kashmir, Wordle and more.
Feb 15, 2022
Rethinking Bangladesh: A Southasian Conversation
Jan 07, 2022
Unreal estate: An interview with Debjani Bhattacharyya
Dec 20, 2021
Southasia's COP26, Bhutan's political prisoners, the politics of listening and more
Nov 15, 2021
Pandora Papers in Southasian media, humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and ‘Manike Mage Hithe’
Oct 13, 2021
Escalating conflict in Myanmar, enforced disappearances in Southasia and ‘Witnesses to History’
Sep 17, 2021
Who needs borders?
Sep 14, 2021
Afghan journalists under attack, surveillance after Pegasus, Olympics 2020, and more
Aug 13, 2021
#MeToo Sri Lanka, Myanmar’s jade mines, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ and more
Jul 09, 2021
Journalists under attack, marine disaster in Sri Lanka, chasing monkeys, and more
Jun 09, 2021
COVID-19 travel bubbles, vaccine procurement, Churails, and more
May 14, 2021
Getting the jab done
May 07, 2021
The deep roots of Myanmar’s crisis
Apr 16, 2021
CNN in Myanmar, environmental crises, and Tibetan cinema
Apr 09, 2021
Reinstatement of Nepal’s Parliament, Al Jazeera’s investigation on corruption in Bangladesh and more
Mar 05, 2021
Military coup in Myanmar, Nepal’s constitutional crisis and vaccine rollouts in Southasia
Feb 08, 2021
What the military coup means for Myanmar's ethnic conflicts
Feb 05, 2021
More than a seat at the table
Jan 27, 2021
Imperfect markets
Jan 08, 2021
The rise of extremes
Dec 04, 2020
Elections in Myanmar, opposition rallies in Pakistan, collaboration for COVID-19 vaccines and more
Nov 06, 2020
Constitutional change in Sri Lanka, Afghan peace talks, Bhutan-Bangladesh trade agreements and more
Oct 05, 2020
What the Maithili Movement tells us about language politics in India
Oct 02, 2020
The disconnect on Digital Pakistan
Sep 08, 2020
Elections in Sri Lanka, freedom of speech debates in India, war on drugs in Bangladesh and more
Sep 03, 2020
A special podcast with the editors of Himal
Jul 30, 2020
Interview with Megnaa Mehtta on the Sundarban after Cyclone Amphan
Jun 10, 2020
Interview with CP Chandrasekhar on role of IMF and World Bank during COVID-19
Apr 30, 2020
Interview with Anita Gurumurthy on data and surveillance capitalism
Feb 18, 2020
Himal Interview with Nivedita Menon
Jan 07, 2020
The future of democracy in the Maldives: Interview with Mushfiq Mohamed
Aug 02, 2019
PTM and Pakistan’s civil-rights movement
Jun 19, 2019
Anti-terror law after the Easter attacks
Jun 13, 2019
The crisis in Pakistani journalism: In conversation with Omar Waraich
May 31, 2019
Jayadeva Uyangoda on Easter Sunday attacks and its aftermath
May 15, 2019
Himal Interviews: Shahidul Alam on 2019 Indian elections
May 09, 2019
Kanak Mani Dixit on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Jan 18, 2019
Khushi Kabir on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Jan 18, 2019
Jayadeva Uyangoda on 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Jan 18, 2019
Q&A for 'Have we failed our democracies?'
Jan 18, 2019
Himal Interviews: Crisis of Bangladeshi democracy with Khushi Kabir
Jan 17, 2019
Himal Interviews: The Abdus Salam story with Zakir Thaver
Jan 07, 2019
Himal Interviews: From Medina to Ayodhya with Pervez Hoodbhoy
Jan 02, 2019
Himal Interviews: The Wayward Daughter with Shradha Ghale
Dec 27, 2018
Himal Interviews: Human rights in Bangladesh with Saad Hammadi (Amnesty International)
Dec 17, 2018
The Southasian Conversation: Episode 2 - Arts on the streets
Dec 10, 2018
Interview with Reetika Khera on the Indian Supreme Court's verdict on Aadhaar
Oct 01, 2018
Interview with former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed
Sep 21, 2018
Himal Interview: Radhika Coomaraswamy on Myanmar
Sep 19, 2018
'Erasure': A poem by Nabina Das, read by the author
Aug 27, 2018
The Southasian Conversation: Women in media
Aug 01, 2018
Himal Interviews: Beena Sarwar on Pakistan elections
Jul 26, 2018
Himal Interviews: Rana Ayyub on the dangers of doing journalism in India
Jul 04, 2018
Poems by Kamala Das
Jul 02, 2018
Himal Interviews: Onaiza Drabu and Prachi Jha on their literary project 'Daak'
Jul 02, 2018
Poems by Habba Khatoon
Jul 02, 2018
Poems by Mahadevi Varma
Jul 02, 2018
Poems by Amrita Pritam
Jul 02, 2018
Himal Interviews: Annie Zaman on being denied entry to India
Jun 13, 2018
Lepidoptera: A poem by Subhashini Kaligotla
May 16, 2018
'Where is Arsalan Miyan?' A Short Story by Juanita Kakoty
Apr 30, 2018