climate change

Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘Sand and Water’

A conversation with the filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz, director of ‘Sand and Water’.

| Jul 14, 2023

Southasia’s place in contemporary climate fiction

Western cli-fi seems almost addicted to Southasia as a theatre for exploring its greatest concerns, yet often falls prey to uninformed perspectives. But there is also a growing tide of climate fiction by Southasians themselves.

| Jun 28, 2023

Is Kerala’s pokkali the rice of the future? 

Pokkali is one of the oldest rice varieties in Kerala. It became prominent for its salt-tolerant and flood-resistant properties and is now being pitched as a climate-adaptive crop

| Feb 09, 2023

Climate change in Bangladesh is driving a dengue outbreak in winter

Dengue is endemic in Bangladesh but the current outbreak is unusual in its scale and seasonality. Many experts have linked the surge in dengue cases with extreme climate events

| Jan 27, 2023

Southasia Climate Events Tracker

Mapping the impact of the climate crisis across Southasia

| Jan 13, 2023

Nepal elections, Pakistan’s new Army Chief, ‘Moshari’, and more.

Southasiasphere episode 22: Updates and analysis from around the region.

| Dec 16, 2022

The story of Paani Apas

Community initiatives to address the water crisis in coastal Bangladesh.

| Nov 18, 2022

Pakistan’s Manchar lake

The forced exodus of the fishing community at Manchar Lake.

| Oct 21, 2022

Southasia’s COP26, Bhutan’s political prisoners, the politics of listening and more.

Southasiasphere episode 13: Updates and analysis from around the region.

| Nov 16, 2021

Count your climate losses

How recent reports on climate change weigh the economic versus the human cost of the ecological crisis.

| Jul 30, 2021

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Pakistan embraces military rule without martial law

New laws have created jurisdiction for the military to operate at both federal and provincial levels of government, with serious implications for Pakistan’s already precarious federation.

Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives

Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital

Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast

Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa