South Asia

Summer Special

Alluring and fascinating city where nothing is safe

Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

Social mobility

How to spot members of Nepal’s middle class

Biodiversity

Global warming and biodiversity loss mutually reinforcing

Online forum

#DalitLivesMatterNepal

Caste-based discrimination

Nepal must do much more to protect most vulnerable community

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

Mass suffering

India’s disastrous second Covid-19 wave