The attack at the Deh-Mehri shrine near Herat exposes the ongoing targeting of Shias in Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s efforts to cover up sectarian violence
An examination of the OMP’s records reveals thousands of missing names and unexplained discrepancies in official tallies of Sri Lanka’s disappeared, raising questions of whether this truth-seeking mechanism has become another instrument of impunity
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
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
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
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
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
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
