Kanak Mani Dixit, founding editor, Himal Southasian, on Saturday said that though the idea of South Asia is important, it is not talked about due to the heightened hyper-nationalism.
In a talk titled ‘Beyond Cartography: A Journalist’s Discovery of South Asia’ at Roja Muthiah Research Library in Taramani, he spoke about how scholars stepped away from considering the future of subcontinent.
“When you start proposing South Asia as a concept, it is targeted immediately. In these days of heightened hyper-nationalism, somebody who talks about South Asia, including a scholar, might be considered anti-national. This is enough to keep scholars from evaluating the idea of South Asia in terms of how it may be useful to consider a future of the subcontinent,” he said.
