farmers’ protests
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Shreya Sinha | Sep 16, 2023
On night patrol in Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict zone
Hambantota in Sri Lanka has been on the frontline for human-elephant conflict for years. 2022 was the worst year yet, with a death toll of 433 elephants and 145 people
Roshan Gunasekare | Mar 03, 2023
Military coup in Myanmar, Nepal’s constitutional crisis and vaccine rollouts in Southasia
Southasiasphere podcast episode 04: Updates and analysis from around the region.
The Editors | Feb 09, 2021
Too keen to withhold?
Why we know so little about the temporary blocking of the Twitter accounts covering farmers’ protests.
Chhetria Patrakar | Feb 03, 2021
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