Assembly election results present headaches for New Delhi thanks to renewed demands for restored statehood, while the chief minister, Omar Abdullah, must reckon with curtailed powers and growing polarisation between Jammu and Kashmir
Muhammad Yunus’ interim government needs to implement reforms to resurrect institutions that Sheikh Hasina had all but dismantled, starting with law and order and banking, says economist and political commentator Jyoti Rahman
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For our Podcast of the Week, host of the Southasia Review of Books podcast, Shwetha Srikanthan interviews Geethanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on “Our city that
In Multan, fierce heat and other effects of the climate crisis are hurting the health and livelihoods of agricultural workers, resulting in damaged crops, heat-related illnesses, and other adverse effects
The International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo discuss their latest book – and why its story, based loosely around the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, remains deeply relevant today
It is natural to compare Gaza today and Tamils’ plight at the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War – but claims that the LTTE stood in solidarity with Palestine and got training from the PLO are dangerously misleading
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In the latest episode of the State of Southasia podcast, host Nayantara Narayanan interviews Ambika Satkunanathan, lawyer and former commissioner of human rights for Sri Lanka
Pakistan cannot meaningfully fight economic distress and mass unemployment unless its resources are freed from control by the highest echelons of its military, bureaucracy and the political class
Sri Lanka rejected the Rajapaksas and an entire political establishment in the presidential election, with voters serious about a break with the past, says human rights advocate Ambika Satkunanathan
With the collapse of India-backed authoritarianism in Bangladesh – and Myanmar too – ‘India’s Near East: A New History’ reads like a testament to the failure of New Delhi’s policy on its eastern flank
