Daanish Mustafa on Pakistan’s recurring flood disasters: State of Southasia #33
The professor of critical geography discusses how climatic variability, unregulated development and colonial water governance exacerbates Pakistan’s flood vulnerability
The professor of critical geography discusses how climatic variability, unregulated development and colonial water governance exacerbates Pakistan’s flood vulnerability
In ‘The Jackfruit Chronicles’, the award-winning food writer Shahnaz Ahsan invites us into her family’s British-Bangladeshi kitchen, showing how food carries both resistance and remembrance, and reflects the complexities of diasporic life in Britain
The poet Ujwalla Maharjan, law student Anjali Sah and climate activist Tashi Lhazom on how Nepal’s GenZ is not a homogenous group and the new Nepal must pay attention to the marginalised
Harsh Mander hosts conversations on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s corrosion of India over 100 years
Harsh Mander hosts conversations on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s corrosion of India over 100 years
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War
The writer and researcher calls the opposition’s show of support for Wickremesinghe “farcical at best and infuriating at worst”
A conversation with Vishwambhari Parmar on curating and translating The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction, and uncovering the genre’s darker and more irreverent worlds in Southasian literature
The editor of Zan Times describes the racism underlining Iran’s maltreatment of Afghan refugees during deportation and the crisis they face back in Afghanistan
A conversation with the journalist Ipsita Chakravarty on what it means for the people of Kashmir to tell their stories – in a place where history is contested, identity is under siege, and memorialisation itself is a political act
The writer discusses the project’s ambitions to revive Bhutan’s ailing economy and how it ignores the displacement of the Lhotshampa people from the Geluphu region
A conversation with the Indologist Wendy Doniger on her wide-ranging study ‘The Cave of Echoes’, the importance of understanding other peoples’ myths, and the Hindu right’s efforts to suppress the study of religion