State of emergency
An inside account of the Nepali state’s emergency response to the April earthquake.
Deepak Adhikari | Jul 29, 2015
The neoliberal aftershock
How the 2001 Gujarat earthquake gave a fillip to Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat Model’.
Edward Simpson and Michele Serafini | Jul 28, 2015
The perfect storm and the final famine
Natural disasters have shaped political consensus on development in Bangladesh.
Naomi Hossain | Jul 24, 2015
Oiled sanctuary
Why the Sundarban oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen.
Lalon Sander and Naushad Ali Husein | Jul 21, 2015
Ladyland revisited
On the first feminist science fiction in the Subcontinent.
Laxmi Murthy | Jul 19, 2015
In search of welfare
In Sri Lanka, disasters and welfare policy shape each other.
Kalinga Tudor Silva | Jul 17, 2015
Surrealist Pakistan
'Hasan Ki Surat-e-Haal' marks an important formal departure from Pakistan’s Urdu literature.
Haider Shahbaz | Jul 15, 2015
Blackness in brown spaces
Despite historical linkages, Africans in Southasia endure prejudice and institutional discrimination.
Sinthujan Varatharajah | Jul 14, 2015
Everybody loves a good earthquake
Or how a natural disaster in the neighbourhood is just what belligerent foreign policy needs.
Pamela Philipose | Jul 12, 2015
The 13 men from Subalpur
Sonia Faleiro's book on the Birbhum gang rape is riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions.
Madhusree Mukerjee | Jul 10, 2015
Development as disaster
Tamil Nadu’s coastline is seeing rapid changes that make it more vulnerable.
Nityananda Jayaraman | Jul 09, 2015
Violence frame by frame
A new documentary looks at the build-up to the Muzaffarnagar riots and the aftermath.
Taran N Khan | Jul 01, 2015
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