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Himal Interviews: Bangladesh’s stalled feminist movements and present politics

Himal Interviews: Bangladesh’s stalled feminist movements and present politics2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (156+ words) Nayantara Narayanan is an associate editor at Himal Southasian. In October 2024, two months after the monsoon revolution in Bangladesh toppled Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and Awami League government, four gender experts wrote a column in the Bangladesh newspaper Prothom…...

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Nirvana Bhandary on what it means to be a feminist in Nepal today: Southasia Review of Books podcast #38

Nirvana Bhandary on what it means to be a feminist in Nepal today: Southasia Review of Books podcast #381+ mon, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) 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 and filmmaker Nirvana Bhandary about her new book, Unsanskari: A…...

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Enduring lessons from the Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s ‘Khushboo’

Enduring lessons from the Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir’s ‘Khushboo’6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1699+ words) IN THE 1994 EDITION of Khushboo, Parveen Shakir left a note thanking readers for embracing her book 18 years after its original publication: Just seven months l IN THE 1994 EDITION of Khushboo, Parveen Shakir left a note thanking readers for embracing her…...