Ila Ananya teaches at the Writing Centre at Azim Premji University. She used to report for The Ladies Finger, and her fiction has appeared in Out of Print and The Bombay Literary Magazine. She writes, occasionally, on her blog Trial Pieces.
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
Amid the the “‘de-ideologisation”’ of Nepali politics, the most consequential differences are on the system of provincial government. Three emergent parties throw the divisions into sharp relief.
The standoff over elections in Punjab between the PML-N’s ruling coalition and Imran Khan’s PTI has intensified Pakistan’s multidimensional crisis, and may lead to sovereign default