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A military tank and rows of military on Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. They are all holding the Myanmar flag.
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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
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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
Beyond revealing the entrenched power of male stars in Kerala’s film industry, the assault case exposed a long-standing culture of sexism and sexual harassment in Kerala society.
The sexual assault case that shook Malayalam cinema, in which the actor Dileep was the suspected mastermind but was acquitted, shows how Kerala’s systems continue to shield the powerful and well-conne ...
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The politics of space in India and Pakistan, Khaleda Zia's illness and the crisis within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, renewed clashes along Pakistan-Afghanistan border and more
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