2025 In Review

The woman in the bathroom
By
Romita Saluja
Ramrati was rescued after two years locked in a bathroom by her husband in Haryana. How did she end up there – and why did she go back to him?
A military tank and rows of military on Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. They are all holding the Myanmar flag.
By
Ma Thida
A suite of repressive laws make the outcome of Myanmar’s 2025–26 general election a foregone conclusion, but the public and the international community are unlikely to accept the result as the ruling ...
Police stand in front of the torched offices of the newspaper Prothom Alo in Dhaka
By
Cyrus Naji
The unrest that followed Sharif Osman Hadi’s death was 18 months in the making, as an unresolved revolution, selective justice and tolerated street violence steadily destabilised Bangladesh
Himal Interviews: Indian Muslims’ marginalisation and the myth of appeasement
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The Editors
Hilal Ahmed talks to Harsh Mander about break down in Muslim families, drop-offs in education, lack of social support and how the political class has failed the community
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BNP leader Tarique Rahman’s return, the Kerala sexual assault case, over 200 people charged with violating election law in Myanmar and more
Pakistan's prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif at the National Assembly on 13 November 2025 when the parliament passed the controversial 27th constitutional amendment.
The political commentator says the change only further solidifies the long-standing military authoritarianism and manipulation of the judiciary in Pakistan
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