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Politics and the Hindi press
The rise of Hindi print in India since the early 1970s.
Mrinal Pande | Dec 02, 2022
Primacy and absence of climate change
On competing political imaginaries and the need for a deeper interrogation of climate change narratives in Bangladesh.
Kasia Paprocki | Dec 10, 2021
Notes from a ‘hybrid regime’
Reflections on authoritarianism in today's Pakistan.
Ammar Ali Jan | Dec 04, 2021
The decline of parliament
Under the BJP's rule, India's legislature is gradually ceasing to be a place for debate.
Christophe Jaffrelot | Nov 04, 2021
The road to Khajuraho
The origins of erotica in the Subcontinent's religious art.
Namit Arora | Mar 12, 2021
Karunanidhi and the long shadow of Sri lanka
Between Dravidian politics of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka's Tamil nationalism.
Vaasanthi | May 28, 2020
The frontier economy
Corruption and inequality have remained key features of Myanmar’s post-democratic political economy.
Thant Myint-U | Dec 04, 2019
Side effects of living
Two writers on their personal battles with mental illness.
Jayasree Kalathil and Roohi Kapur | Jun 10, 2019
At the Indian Coffee House
On the Indian Coffee House and the 16th-century Sufi saint who introduced the beans to the Subcontinent.
Nandita Haksar | Feb 05, 2019
Lewis-Kuznets meet Gandhi-Ambedkar
A report looks at the state of India’s workers amid the employment crisis.
Centre for Sustainable Employment | Jan 03, 2019
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