Articles by Seira Tamang
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August 2013 - Featured articles
Fit and worthy A recent documentary film explores the recruitment of Nepali men into the British Brigade of Gurkhas. |
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September 1999 - Himal Mediocrity Series
Assembly-line sisters The ‘Nepali women’ you get to know from the development blurb are conveniently homogenous. All are equally poor, illiterate and oppressed. In the struggle against patriarchy, the idea of ‘sisterhood’ has been the key political force. However, since the 1970s the idea that "all sisters are equal" and that all women suffer the same oppression simply because they all are women, has come under serious criticism. |
Featured Articles
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Cinema as politics, politics as cinema 14 February 2014
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A new book on Telugu film shows that the cultural industry was tied up with caste and regional politics.
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The art of statelessness 10 February 2014
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Fragments of the lives of the Rohingya refugees in Jammu
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Reconstructing the North and democratising Sri Lanka 7 February 2014
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A recent talk on the need for democratic mobilisation of resources and a politics of self-reflexivity in rebuilding Sri Lanka’s...
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A room of his own 4 February 2014
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In conversation with Goa-based poet Manohar Shetty
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Musharraf’s last stand 30 January 2014
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A look at the difficulties and implications of trying a military ruler in Pakistan as Musharraf prepares to leave the country....
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There are many ways to destroy a city 23 January 2014
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Reflections on the recent attack targetting a Kabul institution, the Taverna du Liban restaurant.
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Inside and Out 17 January 2014
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New queer writing from Southasia suggests shifts in attitudes since 2009.
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Archives of Southasia 14 January 2014
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In celebrating the reissue of Himal’s first print quarterly, we offer a series of articles on the state of archiving in...
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The life and letters of Elizabeth Draper 13 January 2014
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The world celebrated the tercentenary of writer Laurence Sterne (1713- 1768) in 2013. A tribute to the woman who inflamed...
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Courting prospects 9 January 2014
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Despite state overtures, localised identities provide a powerful argument against Baltistan’s coarsely wrought borders....
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Autonomy under siege 7 January 2014
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Three women in the militarised spaces of Kashmir describe traumatic accounts of sexual violence and their struggles to gain...
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Seeding the future 31 December 2013
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The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal
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Announcement
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Himal Southasian is relaunched in print! |
The archive: 25 years of Southasia
Image: Penguin India
Penguin India withdraws The Hindus
On 11 February 2014, Penguin India decided to recall and destroy all remaining copies of Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History. The decision was part of an agreement between them and Shiksha Bachao Andolan, a Hindu campaign group that filed a case against the publishers in 2010, arguing that the book was insulting to Hindus and contained “heresies”.
From our archive:
Diwas Kc reviews The Hindus: An Alternative History. (March 2010)
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