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The limitations of the Dravidian model

Two recent books conjure up a society and polity in Tamil Nadu bound by a Dravidian consensus, but they fail to explore the economic and social contexts behind fissures in the Dravidian compact – especially when it comes to the Dalit question

By V Geetha

/ 30 Jun 2024

Southasia Review of Books podcast #05: Siddhartha Deb on India’s macabre new realities

A conversation with Siddhartha Deb on recording the histories of India’s present and the dystopian futures of climate crisis and authoritarianism in his fiction and nonfiction

By The Editors

/ 17 Jun 2024

Southasia Review of Books podcast #05: Siddhartha Deb on India’s macabre new realities

An India Out campaign gives the beleaguered Bangladesh Nationalist Party a chance at resurgence

For Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the campaign against India’s hegemony might be the only card left to play against the ruling Awami League

By Anupam Debashis Roy

/ 5 Jun 2024

An India Out campaign gives the beleaguered Bangladesh Nationalist Party a chance at resurgence

Tamil Nadu has led the fight against the BJP and the Modi model

Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better path for India’s development

By A S Panneerselvan

/ 31 May 2024

Tamil Nadu has led the fight against the BJP and the Modi model

Modi’s uncoordinated approach on Tibet gives China the advantage

While India has hosted and rehabilitated exiled Tibetans, it sees Tibet largely as a tool to counter China and its policies have been reactions to the Chinese narrative

By Bhuchung K Tsering

/ 29 May 2024

Modi’s uncoordinated approach on Tibet gives China the advantage

Bangladesh is vexed by and wary of Modi’s unstinting support to Sheikh Hasina

After a decade of Modi’s reign in India, people in Bangladesh are angry at their government cosying up to a Hindutva regime in New Delhi and tired of India’s influence in their domestic matters

By Kamal Ahmed

/ 15 May 2024

Bangladesh is vexed by and wary of Modi’s unstinting support to Sheikh Hasina

Modi has forcibly integrated Kashmir with India but erased Kashmiris

In the Modi years, India’s Hindu Right has achieved the near-complete subjugation of Indian-administered Kashmir, with the revocation of Article 370, increased militarisation and suspension of elections

By Anuradha Bhasin

/ 9 May 2024

Modi has forcibly integrated Kashmir with India but erased Kashmiris

As India’s election heats up, soaring temperatures from climate change find little mention in mainstream media

Lukewarm coverage of the climate crisis in the Indian media fails to communicate safety measures against extreme heat-related risks this election season

By Aradhna Wal

/ 3 May 2024

As India’s election heats up, soaring temperatures from climate change find little mention in mainstream media

Modi’s foreign policy has expanded India–Nepal economic ties but border and socio-political contests persist

Kathmandu and New Delhi are expanding the bilateral relationship with a mega hydropower deal, but unless border disputes and other irritants are resolved these may determine the relationship’s future

By Amish Raj Mulmi

/ 24 Apr 2024

Modi’s foreign policy has expanded India–Nepal economic ties but border and socio-political contests persist

Why did India fail to industrialise where East Asia succeeded?

Pulapre Balakrishnan’s ‘India’s Economy from Nehru to Modi’ offers a valuable account of India’s economic history but neglects the social and political elements inseparable from it

By Shashank Kela

/ 19 Apr 2024

Why did India fail to industrialise where East Asia succeeded?

Under Modi, the Northeast is more united with India, but more divided within

India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater division within the region, as the Manipur crisis shows

By Makepeace Sitlhou

/ 17 Apr 2024

Under Modi, the Northeast is more united with India, but more divided within

Southasian eyes on the 2024 Indian election

A special series on what Narendra Modi’s decade in power has meant for Southasia, with perspectives from neighbouring countries as well as Indian territories beyond the BJP’s power base

By The Editors

/ 10 Apr 2024

Southasian eyes on the 2024 Indian election