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Mohamed Muizzu stands behind a wooden podium with the Maldives behind him on the right at his oath-taking ceremony as president of the Maldives in 2023.
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JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”: State of Southasia #25
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The Editors
The journalist says that, despite some development, the Maldives’ political culture under Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs.
Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander
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Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India: A podcast with Harsh Mander
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The Editors
The peace activist Harsh Mander hosts conversations on Indian Muslim history and experience amid a crisis of Islamophobia and anti-minority hatred fuelled by the rise of the Hindu Right
Relatives of Covid-19 victims performing last rites at a crematorium in New Delhi in May 2021. Data from India shows 3.7 million excess deaths during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, revealing an undercounting of Covid-19 deaths by an estimated seven times.
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Vidya Krishnan on how India's politics magnified its Covid-19 death toll: State of Southasia #24
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The Editors
As India reveals massive undercounting of coronavirus deaths, a health journalist reminds us of the pandemic’s horrors and the Modi government’s terrible decisions that cost millions of lives
People leave their houses in Uri for safety after cross-shelling between India and Pakistan across the Line of Control. Kashmir and Kashmiris have paid the heaviest price in conflicts between India and Pakistan.
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Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
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The Editors
Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet they have been alienated by India, the veteran journalist says
A 2020 rally in Kolkata against the detention of public intellectuals in the Bhima Koregaon case. In her book ‘The Incarcerations’, Alpa Shah delves into the details of the case, which she calls a bellwether for the collapse of democracy in India.
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Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22
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The Editors
The BK-16 case links India’s harmful neoliberal policies, state authorities abuse of laws, and the collapse of institutions, says the social anthropologist
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