A growing crisis over jobs, debt and AI has put India’s middle class off Modi and his economic promises – and shaken its faith in the ideal of merit
Tyler Williams’s history of early modern Hindi reveals a literary world far more diverse and materially complex than the contemporary definition of the language suggests, challenging fixed ideas about literature and cultural history
The ISPR has outgrown its original role to become a major tool of the Pakistan Army’s power – and now also of Asim Munir’s ambition
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold of landlordism and poverty in Nepal’s southern plains
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
