Remembering Amin Mughal: A humanist at heart
A friend from across the border remembers a journalist, academic, and Marxist intellectual who never stopped calling Pakistan home despite choosing to live elsewhere after being imprisoned and seeking
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Sapan News covers and connects Southasia, the Indian Ocean and diaspora We provide nonpartisan features and explainers beyond the headlines with voices from the community. and on the ground who go into the why and how beyond the headlines.
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The 'heptula' continues
As India and Pakistan commemorated Independence, a recent Global Southasia article about cross-border love and friendship reminded this writer of a meaningless word for 'absurdities' coined by Manto.
Global Southasia (Sapan News) Roundup: The ties that cross borders
Vol. 3 Issue #13: Welcome! We have been exploring the many ways borders shape our lives; from questions of home to the histories, and relationships that connect people across Southasia.
Syed Babar Ali and Harcharan Singh Brar: A friendship Partition could not divide
As Pakistan and India mark their Independence Days, we celebrate a friendship that transcended nationality—even as peacemakers head to the border for a joint celebration authorities refuse to allow.
‘Mein Vaapas Aaunga’ (I will Return): Completing an unfinished conversation
An Afghan writer reflects on home, belonging and love after watching Indian director Imtiaz Ali’s new film starring Naseruddin Shah, and talking to co-writer Nayanika Mahtani.
Promoting cricket… in America?
A conversation with Jalal-ud-Din, record-holder for the world’s first one-day international ‘hat-trick’, and how curiosity, opportunity, and a new generation are boosting cricket across the U.S.A.
Southasia’s nuclear tightrope: Expanding power in one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints
On the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let us remember the Hibakusha – atom bomb survivors and their descendents: #NeverForget.
Appeal to India, Pakistan to release, repatriate incarcerated cross-border fisherpeople
Article 5 of the 2008 Consular Access Agreement requires repatriation within one month after nationality confirmation and sentence completion, yet 178 Indians remain imprisoned in Pakistan.
Dealing with adrenaline-fueled hypernationalism
Ahead of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries, a political cartoonist recalls a late-night taxi ride after a dictator's death, where one counterargument silenced hyper-nationalism talk
Invisible women: Who gets to define Mohenjo-daro’s ‘Dancing Girl’?
An online discussion about an ancient civilisation, an altered textbook image, poetry, and dance raises larger questions about women’s visibility, bodily autonomy and whose authority history remembers
Sapan News Roundup: Breaking barriers, building new paths forward
Vol. 3, Issue #12: Change rarely follows a straight line. This edition explores the people, ideas, and moments that challenge convention and chart new paths forward.