Islamabad’s wilful inability to formulate a just and equitable relationship with Balochistan has led rising numbers of disaffected Baloch citizens to attempt a separation from Pakistan

Mainstreaming Balochistan within Pakistan will require Islamabad to begin to focus on the emerging Baloch middle class, for only then will the backward-looking and competitive sardari system be challenged.

For many Baloch, the turning point in the latest insurgency came on 26 August 2006, the day Nawab Akbar Bugti was assassinated.

A scholar’s view of the obsession with the woman’s back in Bollywood cinema. For the voyeuristic camera, the woman’s back is safe terrain

Amidst kidnappings and ransom demands, Tamil businesses in Colombo are downing the shutters. It seems the government couldn’t care less.

Were 400 Manipuri villagers kidnapped and forced across the Burmese border or not?

With the two major political parties forcibly sidelined, who is left to fix a broken polity? The fact that the writer of this article is compelled to remain anonymous is perhaps indicative of the sudden democracy deficit in Dhaka.

Between leveraging India and respecting the spirit of regionalism, the 14th SAARC Summit took place in Delhi on 3-4 April.

All over Southasia, the beleaguered institution of the election commission may finally be getting the priority – if not the respect – that it deserves.

After revising its longstanding ‘friendship’ treaty with India, Bhutan is now ready to wield its own agency. How will it use it, and what will New Delhi think?

Nepal is currently undergoing three transformations – of peace, of democracy, and of identity. With the country’s highly anticipated elections to the Constituent Assembly now being put off until later this year, the political parties in Kathmandu need to use this time to ensure a truly inclusive process of transformation. Nepali citizens also need to internalise the fact that any such process will inherently be a drawn-out one.

The international watchdog’s attempt to use the Cricket World Cup to draw attention to Sri Lanka’s human-rights situation has backfired.

Memories of separation and loss live on in the ‘Bidesia’ genre of Bhojpuri cultural forms that have spread – and grown – across the globe.

Ethnicity, state and the Cricket World Cup.