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Delhi and Lahore’s winter smog is dimming Kathmandu’s mountains too
Pollution from North India and Pakistan is clouding Kathmandu’s skies, exposing how shared airsheds are accelerating health crises and glacier melt.
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When solidarity stops at the border: Lessons from ‘political blackness’
Intro What Southasian spaces lose when anti-Blackness goes unspoken and what past movements can teach us about widening the circle again
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View from Kathmandu: The shelter and storm of Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary’
Meeting the author, “strikingly ordinary in the most grounding sense,” at a book signing, restores a young Nepali’s faith “in the small, persistent efforts we make each day to stand for what matters”.
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O.P. Nayyar: Musician, magician or both?
Remembering O.P. Nayyar (16 January 1926 – 28 January 2007) Personal recollections from a Pakistani ‘OPium’ about a Lahore-born Bollywood musical icon whose stories are entwined with many legendary figures, and whose immortal melodies continue to inspire and shape popular music By Siraj Khan / Sapan News While organising my thoughts last year to start…
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A call to lift the ongoing media bans between India and Pakistan
India and Pakistan’s media bans blocking access to each other’s news platforms are narrowing public exposure to cross-border perspectives, says a recently released statement jointly endorsed by several groups and individuals, calling for the ban to be lifted.
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The room that shaped me: Reading Naiyer Masud after a childhood loss
A young girl finds a magical hidden bookshelf in her great-grandfather’s clay-walled room in a village, filled with Persian books. Pakistan’s 2022 floods took away the room, and the grief lingers until she finds a piece of fiction that gives her a language to understand what that loss meant.
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