Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives

Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital

Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

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Violence, voices and visibility

What are the ethical implications surrounding graphic depictions of sexual violence in the media?

| Jul 11, 2014

A politics subsumed

The life and times of Jogendranath Mandal.

| Apr 01, 2010

The pursuit of the Southasian past

Moving beyond the colonial-era understanding of the history of the Subcontinent gives us a whole new way of looking at the Subcontinent´s past. This now includes not just the usual explorations of politics and economy, …

| Jul 30, 2008

The feminist and the sex worker

Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter.

Chopsticks in Manipur

The move to ban Hindi films and serials in Manipur has had an unexpected consequence: the Koreans have moved in.

Where is Assam?

Instead of accepting the nationalisation of everything through political cartographic boundaries, we can use geographical history to locate current social realities