development
Screen Southasia: Q&A session with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten
A conversation with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten, director of 'Hami Kunako Manche' (We Corner People)
The Editors | Apr 12, 2023
Tunnel to the future
How the Atal Tunnel is reshaping life in Lahaul.
Kesang Thakur and Anu Sabhlok | Oct 28, 2022
Nepal’s biometric future
The country's new biometric identification system threatens to deepen exclusion.
Abha Lal | Aug 12, 2022
Afghanistan: graveyard of development?
On the country’s fraught histories of international development.
The Editors | Aug 31, 2021
Count your climate losses
How recent reports on climate change weigh the economic versus the human cost of the ecological crisis.
The Editors | Jul 30, 2021
#MeToo in Sri Lanka, Myanmar’s jade mines, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and more
Southasiasphere episode 09: Updates and analysis from around the region.
The Editors | Jul 09, 2021
Global poverty: fantasy or reality?
Unpacking the recent Smith and Hickel debate on the evolution of global poverty.
Rishabh Kumar | Jun 25, 2021
Reclaiming space through art
How a group from Colombo resists gentrification through art, archiving and activism.
Amalini de Sayrah | Mar 16, 2021
Development sermons
Do political cabals and business cartels explain the woes of Nepali economy?
Sovit Subedi | Feb 22, 2021
In sickness and in health
How border regions can be central to building a post-pandemic Southasia.
Nimmi Kurian | Dec 21, 2020
Latest Articles
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
G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings, the return of Nawaz Sharif and more
September 2023 - Updates and analysis from around the region
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
