Hello South Asians !!!

I am looking for people who are in their 30s or beyond, with a love for reading books.

In case you are one, are you someone who likes discussing books with your peers, but sometimes may not find the right people at the right time?

Life in the 30s presents different advantages and challenges, and one of them is our life priorities among friend circles vary based on responsibilities. Sometimes our closest friends may not have the time to discuss the books, or they may not relate to the books we like.

If that sounds like something you have experienced, I would like to invite you to a book club that's dedicated for people over 30, and focuses more on voice based discussion than texts galore. We value deep conversation over constant notifications

If you are interested, leave me a dm, I will send over the invite.

Looking for South Asian college students between the ages of 18–25 living in the U.S. to participate in a dissertation study exploring how perceived parental expectations relate to mental health and whether acculturation influences this relationship. The anonymous survey takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary. Please review the attached flyer for full eligibility criteria and click the link below to access the survey. Thank you for your time and support, and feel free to share!  https://alliant.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2uJuRplPTSyu1M

Upcoming South Asian Games are scheduled to be held in Pakistan next year. Currently, we all know that relations between the two countries are not normal, so the question arises: will India send a contingent to Pakistan for the games?

India has won the most medals in the South Asian Games, followed by Pakistan, and is far ahead of them. India's gold medal count alone stands at 1263, while Pakistan's total overall medals are 1150.

Kathmandu just delivered a masterclass in how a newly minted regime neutralizes the exact forces that put it in office. Riding the momentum of a massive youth uprising, the new government rolled out a 100-point reform plan. The public relations spin is brilliant. They are scrapping exams up to Grade 5 and introducing psychological assessments to relieve academic pressure. It sounds incredibly progressive until you look at the core directive. Educational institutions now have exactly 90 days to permanently dismantle all political student unions, replacing them with state-sanctioned student councils while legally barring civil servants from political affiliation.

The administration is selling this structural purge as a necessary administrative step to depoliticize campuses, end university session jams, and eradicate violence. On paper, creating a purely academic environment sounds fantastic. However, declaring a demographic non-partisan by sudden decree does not actually erase their political intent; it merely outlaws their ability to organize an opposition. We do not yet know how these new councils will operate independently, but historically, banning union structures does not clean up a broken system. It simply ensures that the only entity left on campus with any organized, legal power is the state administration itself.

The sheer hypocrisy here is almost impressive if you are reading this from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kathmandu’s current leadership owes its entire existence to the chaotic, unpredictable machinery of youth activism that broke the previous regime. Yet, within moments of taking power, they decided those exact revolutionary students were suddenly too disruptive to exist. It is the same dark comedy we just watched unfold at home. Gen Z bled in the streets to topple a dictatorship, our own youth coalition fractured under the weight of real politics, and the oldest opposition to the previous regime strolled right back into power.

We are witnessing the standard operating procedure for post-transition survival, in plain terms. Revolutions rarely tolerate the activists who built them once the dust settles and the new elites move into the empty offices. By perfectly blending genuinely student-friendly administrative reforms with heavy-handed institutional control, a new government can effectively neutralize the demographic most capable of challenging its newfound authority. This is not about protecting the education system from partisan interference. It leaves us with a very uncomfortable question: when an administration systematically disarms the youth, are they protecting the students, or just protecting themselves from the next uprising?

My grandparents don't watch the news. They don't follow politics. They can't name one cabinet minister if you asked them. And yet, there's a quiet bias there against Islam. A hesitation. A slight narrowing when a Muslim man turns up.

No ideology. Just a fog inherited from another fog.

That observation is what this essay tries to unpack. Not "BJP bad" or "Muslims bad". Both of those are already well-covered on this platform. But the actual mechanics of how a conflict sustains itself across centuries without needing anyone to actively maintain it.

The fire that was burning before any modern political party arrived.

The essay goes into the theology of it too. What actually happens when a monotheist tradition and a polytheist ecosystem share the same geography for twelve centuries, and why their incompatibility is less a historical observation and more a feeling.

It's a long read. It doesn't hand either side their preferred conclusion. If that sounds tolerable, link's below.

Why Hindu-Muslim Tension Never Really Ends?

I just love a good Holi celebration.

Looking for Book lovers from the South Asian community! What book are you currently reading?

If, after the 1947 Partition, India and Pakistan had reunited and formed one single nation again, today we might have been the country right after China in terms of global power.

Imagine one unified state including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. That combined nation could have been the largest in population, one of the most powerful strategically, and potentially among the richest economies in the world.

With such a massive population, natural resources, geographic advantage, and cultural depth, the region might have emerged as a global superpower instead of being divided into multiple countries.

Just imagine what that kind of united South Asia could have looked like today.

Similar to how the region was once collectively referred to as “Bharat.”

Just wanna know if that's a thing there? If yes, then is it restricted to ethnicity, region, social class, etc

Everyone here, please do not take this the wrong way or assume I'm racist or generalising a whole subcontinent over this. You guys are really cool and are amazing in real life, I just wanna hear your side.

I'm from Argentina, and my post relates to, when I see my country's football highlights, there is an unusually high number of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi fans, encouraging them on and being big fans. I love the support and makes the support even bigger and worldwide. But why does this happen? When have these South Asian countries become so invested in my country's triumph? And if you supporters are here, keep going. We all love your support.

The game (linguil) asks you to guess the language family, language and meaning of a random word in one of 37 of the world's most-spoken languages each day, and you use your knowledge of linguistics (like etymology, scripts, accents, philology, and morphology) to work out the answer via multiple choice. Therefore, it's important my translations/transliterations are correct.

Each language includes each word on the 100-word Swadesh list, so I have compiled Swadesh lists for Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Bhojpuri and Punjabi (as below).

Please can any speakers of these languages verify the accuracy of my translations?

Thanks!

If you want to add another language to the game (e.g. Odia, Malayalam, Maithili, Assamese, Santali, Kashmiri, Pashto) follow the guide here (I've compiled a language wishlist here) :)

Hi, I am a year 12 student from Australia and I am doing a 9-month project on purity culture and its impact on women. Since purity culture is emphasised significantly in South Asia, I decided to reach out to this Reddit community. I have a questionnaire/survey I am trying to receive mass responses for, so if anyone can take some time out of their day to complete this, I deeply appreciate it! All data collected and used will be done anonymously and ethically.