The BJP’s reduced seat count after the 2024 election prompted rare public criticism from the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, offering a glimpse into the recurring power struggle between the two organisations
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As Sri Lanka goes to the polls, Marlon Ariyasinghe lays out the top 3 presidential candidates vying for people’s votes in the first election since
A three-party contest with no certain frontrunner, the 2024 presidential vote is the first since the economic crisis and mass protests of 2022 sparked calls for deep systemic change in Sri Lankan politics
After decades as a political flop, Wickremesinghe engineered a nascent economic recovery and quietly depleted the once-mighty Rajapaksas. Has his presidency, for all its flaws, given Sri Lanka a chance at something better?
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On 21 September, Sri Lankans will elect a new president. Tisaranee Gunasekara takes a deep look at the political life and trajectory of incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe,
Hundreds of fishermen straying into disputed waters in Sir Creek are arrested each year. Activists are collaborating across the India–Pakistan border to bring them home.
A conversation on the collective diary of 21 Afghan women writers who offer courageous and intimate testimonies on the events of August 2021, life under Taliban rule and far from home in exile
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Deepthi Jeevanji’s bronze medal may have made headlines, but Priti Salian writes that Indian news coverage of the Paralympic Games remains stuck in a victim-hero
Tamil nationalism faces a new challenge as the climate emergency spreads in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and other Tamil-dominated areas, where the ravages of war and systemic discrimination have left the population especially vulnerable
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In a brand new episode of the State of Southasia podcast, host Nayantara Narayanan talks to Kate Clark, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a research
Noorjahan Bose’s memoir of her pioneering life recounts a host of stories born of female autonomy – all while spanning Partition, the Bangla Language Movement, the Liberation War and the post-independence history of Bangladesh
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Afghan refugees in Delhi tell stories of food during a writing workshop, reconstructing the homes they left behind and the new home they are building in
