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A Rohingya photographer’s dispatch on food-aid cuts in the refugee camps
The reduction in World Food Program rations for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is exacerbating their immense suffering. Food insecurity and malnutrition, already acute, are worsening.
Sahat Zia Hero | Apr 28, 2023
‘Our future is dark’
The struggle to continue education for Afghan children in India.
Asma Hafiz | Nov 08, 2022
The catch-22 of collective fundraising
Recent fundraisers for tuition fees reveals continued caste discrimination in academia.
Eshna Sharma | Aug 20, 2021
The ‘note’ economy
A brief history of English-literature exams in contemporary India.
Sumana Roy | Aug 03, 2020
Southasiasphere: Issue #6
Digital divide in online classes, long-term impact of Cyclone Amphan, and more.
The Editors | May 29, 2020
Nepal’s public-school wars
Political dissonance is threatening the vitality of public schools in Nepal’s new federal arrangement.
Niranjan Kunwar | Oct 01, 2019
Love, with an albatross attached: Part II
A personal essay about coming of age in the world of hypercompetitive education in 1990s India.
Aparna Gopalan | May 18, 2018
Love, with an albatross attached: Part I
A personal essay about coming of age in the world of hypercompetitive education in 1990s India.
Aparna Gopalan | May 11, 2018
Ruptured continuity
Will the new NLD government move forward with neoliberalism at the cost of a welfare state?
Aniruddha Bonnerjee and Gabriel Koehler | Jun 01, 2016
An art experiment in Gorkha
Prioritising arts education in times of disaster can help people heal.
Niranjan Kunwar | Aug 14, 2015
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