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, by ROB Ramisa, UYANGODA Jayadeva
As we approach a month of Sheikh Hasina’s fall in Bangladesh, Dr Jayadeva Uyangoda, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, speaks to Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star regarding the parallels with Sri Lanka’s democratic movement in 2022, and the lessons to (…)
, by ATHAR Mohammad Ebad , BHAN Mona
RISING TEMPERATURES, EXPERTS argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for (…)
, by DUTRA Israel, TARIQ Farooq
Interview on the political situation in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India given, the 30 August 2024, by Farooq Tariq to the Brazilian magazine Revista Movimento.
Though it is one of the most dynamic regions of world capitalism, the Brazilian public knows little about South Asia. But the recent (…)
, by WEDAGEDARA Amali
Debt payments of developing countries exceed their national revenue. According to a new report, Resolving The Worst Ever Global Debt Crisis, 118 developing countries are experiencing debt distress, with a disproportionate share of their national revenue directed towards debt servicing in 2024 (…)
, by FOWLE Alice
Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated while red alerts issued for unrelenting heat across north-western India and Pakistan.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, an area of low pressure over the east-central Bay of Bengal intensified, and has been named Cyclone Remal.
Cyclone (…)
, by PURKAYASTHA Sharmila
‘For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit’, an anthology of prison poems, testifies to the coercive nature of the state and society – yet its under-representation of regional poets speaks of wider exclusions
My dangerous personality That you do not understand: The secret is poetry.
– ‘Poetry’ by (…)
, by Himal Southasian
A selection of Himal’s most-read articles on Southasian politics of the year
From political instability in Pakistan and Bangladesh and the economic crisis still devastating Sri Lanka to months of violence and ethnic conflict in Manipur and much more – 2023 has been yet another turbulent year (…)
, by AYYATHURAI Gajendran
‘Dust on the Throne’ focusses on grossly overlooked aspects of Buddhism in Southasia and beyond, highlighting casteless and anti-caste legacies connecting ancient and modern Buddhists
Southasia has since many millennia been a multilinguistic, multicultural and multireligious region. The (…)
, by Jamhoor
History repeats itself in the most violent and inhumane ways — the last week of Israeli genocidal aggression on the 2.4 million Palestinians trapped in the world’s largest concentration camp shows us so. Carpet bombing, the use of white phosphorus, reneging on promises of safe passage, (…)
, by VARMA Rashmi
With the publication of In Theory in 1992, Aijaz Ahmad threw a spanner into the works of what seemed at the time to be the relentless march of postcolonial theory within departments of English and comparative literary studies in the Anglo-American academy. The increasing power of this (…)
, by KHADKA Navin Singh
Increased rain and melting of snow and ice has made the mountain regions more dangerous, a new study finds
Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India’s Himalayan region.
But an unusual increase in rainfall is making the terrain even more (…)
, by MODI Chintan Girish
Indian audiences are connecting with director Saim Sadiq’s acclaimed, queer-affirming Pakistani film, briefly banned in its home country
n the evening of 8 June, the Pakistani director Saim Sadiq’s film Joyland was screened at Liberty Cinema in Mumbai as part of the 14th Kashish Mumbai (…)
, by CADTM
We, the participants of the 9th CADTM South Asia meeting from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, as well as from Morocco, Belgium, Spain and France, assembled in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from December 2–4, 2022, reaffirm reaffirm our fight against illegitimate debt.
1. We stand in (…)
, by RANDELL Heather, SOUTHARD Emily M L
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their concerns about (…)
, by LALL Anusha
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Recovery and Impact on Workers
The impact of the pandemic and post-pandemic recovery plans on workers across Asia and the world demands attention. The fallouts of the pandemic in terms of economic disruption, surging unemployment, large-scale migration and displacement (…)
, by PATRAKAR Chhetria
In Sri Lanka, there are many factors shaping mainstream media coverage of citizen-led protests.
On 4 May 2022, a tweet posted by the Colombo-based reporter Chandani Kirinde sparked debate on the role of journalists in political movements. The tweet was in response to news that 12 people, (…)
, by SEN Basav
Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.
Large parts of my ancestral homeland of India and neighboring Pakistan are facing a severe heatwave, with temperatures soaring to 111 degrees (…)
, by KENNEDY-ASSER Alan Thomas , THOMPSON Vikki
An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world facing temperatures well above 40℃. Although this has not broken all-time records for the regions, the hottest part of the year is yet to come.
Though the (…)
, by Sapan News Service
Commemorating Human Rights Day, the founding of SAARC and 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence, discussion organised by SAPAN highlights the commonality of human rights issues across the region.
Activists from across South Asia have expressed concern at the deteriorating human rights (…)
, by AVTANS Abhishek
Pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia.
Home to 544 living languages belonging to six language families – Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Burman, Andamanese, Kra-Dai and some isolates – Southasia has always been the hotbed of language contact and convergence. This (…)
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