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People cross the Chenab River after the flow of water was halted from a dam, at Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu, India in May.

Resource conflicts

Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is not likely to cause its neighbour Pakistan much harm in the short term, but it sets a dangerous global precedent.

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by Imran Mukhtar

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Students at an Assamese college: universities provide spaces with special freedom to young women, so in-person classes are preferable to digital teaching.

Online classes

What new problems digitised classrooms create

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by Ipsita Sapra
In Pakistan, girls are less likely to conclude primary school than boys: teacher with pupils in Hyderabad.

Girls

Pakistan is among the worst countries for girls

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Chris Donahue was the last US soldier departing Kabul on 30 August.

Afghanistan

Broken promises and western failure in Afghanistan

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by Paul D. Miller
by Hans Dembowski
The Delta variant is reality: people waiting to get refilled oxygen cylinders for sick family members.

Multidimensional crises

Why we must not turn our backs on Afghanistan now

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by Ralph Achenbach
Afghan police officers in a poppy field in 2006.

Afghanistan

Stop blaming victims for western failure in Afghanistan

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by Hans Dembowski
Commemorating Lasantha Wickre­matunge, a slain journalist, in 2020.

Press freedom

Sri Lankan journalists working in fear

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by Arjuna Ranawana
Government as a family affair: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) greeting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (right) with another brother, Chamal Rajapaksa (who now is serving as irrigation minister) looks on during an official ceremony in August 2020.

Online media

How Sri Lanka keeps the press muzzled

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by Arjuna Ranawana
Haji Ali Mausoleum is a Muslim landmark in Mumbai.

Summer Special

Alluring and fascinating city where nothing is safe

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by Hans Dembowski
Salesperson with skin-lightening product in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2016.

Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Many middle-class families earn their incomes with a small shop.

Social mobility

How to spot members of Nepal’s middle class

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by Rukamanee Maharjan