South Asia

India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandha highlighted his faith in a totally different manner than Prime Minister Narendar Modi does today.

In recent election campaigns, Sri Lanka’s new president managed to build a new inter-religious coalition.

The impacts of the climate crisis on the South Asian subcontinent are already quite bad.

Islamist Taliban regime has effectively erased women from public life.

Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. The climate crisis is compounding problems.

After 77 years of independence, Pakistan’s society, economy and politics are still marked by institutions established by the British Empire.

While extreme weather is increasingly considered normal, Nepal still cannot protect its people properly.

Britain’s East India Company ran a highly profitable, but brutally exploitative narco-state in the Gangetic plains and exported highly addictive opium to China.

Shahu Patole’s book “Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada” highlights the rich culinary traditions of marginalised Dalit communities in Maharashtra, using food as a lens to explore caste, identity, and resilience in the face of historical discrimination.

Why Islamabad’s military-backed government will get a chief justice of its own choice