Ten years after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the people of the Langtang Valley show how community and culture are vital to post-disaster recovery – with lessons for a world plagued by disaster
Rollo Romig’s book uncovers the making of Gauri Lankesh, her fight against Hindu nationalism, and how the journalist’s murder exposes the cost of dissent in an increasingly intolerant India
While trying to secure their competing interests, India and China will both help bring investment into Afghanistan and legitimacy to the Taliban government
As climate change-driven extreme heat threatens more and more of India’s massive population, ineffective advisories and undercounting of heat-related deaths leave millions vulnerable and unaware of the real risks
The Rajapaksas, led by Mahinda, laid waste to Sri Lanka with tyranny, corruption and Sinhala supremacism until an economic collapse brought them down – yet still the threat of their return remains
Under Mohammad Yunus’s interim government, a Media Reform Commission has set out to address long-standing problems facing journalists in Bangladesh – but old threats and patterns of control remain
Violent pro-monarchy protests reveal Nepal’s incomplete transition from Hindu kingdom to secular republic, with nationalist myths and India’s Hindu Right feeding into royalist resurgence
Women workers in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province see their health and livelihoods at risk due to extreme heat linked to climate change, with government heat action plans still under development
Among the Narendra Modi regime’s gravest moral and political transgressions is its support of Israel’s genocidal war and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza
Bangladesh’s management of the Rohingya, while seen as humanitarian, is part of a system that exploits their labour, commercialises their misfortune and locks them into depending on foreign aid
Perumal Murugan and Appupen’s graphic adaptation of C S Chellappa’s novella ‘Vaadivaasal’ fails to capture the essence of the original when trying to bring it to a new generation shaped in part by the 2017 jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu
