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Journalists On Trial
A SAMDEN-Himal initiative to track legal attacks on journalists and media groups in Southasia.
SAMDEN and Himal Southasian | May 03, 2019
Good press, bad decision
Inter Press Service, the award, and the Bangladesh PM.
Chhetria Patrakar | Sep 22, 2018
Bullying the republic
What the recent clampdown on educational institutions in India tells us about the ruling dispensation.
Puja Sen | Feb 16, 2016
Southasia’s free speech conundrum
How the misuse of social and mainstream media contribute to misperceptions and violence.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda | Feb 09, 2015
Between free speech and hate speech
Understanding the impact of speech, particularly on marginalised groups, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Maija Liuhto | Jan 23, 2015
Drawing a line: Pakistan’s jihad against the internet
Urooj Zia examines Pakistan’s cascading clamp-down on its citizens’ access to the internet and the worrying precedents it sets
Urooj Zia | Jul 25, 2013
Latest Articles
The rare Indian foreign correspondent’s view of Pakistan
Accounts from Kesava Menon, Meena Menon and Sameer Arshad Khatlani show the messy truth of where things really stand between the two fractious neighbours
Interview: Operation 1027 and the growing armed alliance against Myanmar’s junta
Researcher Aung Kaung Myat unpacks the internal dynamics of the complex coalition of armed groups battling for dominance across Myanmar
Podcast: Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban, Myanmar’s armed groups expose military junta’s weakness, and more
Your Southasia news roundup from 20 Nov - 1 Dec 2023, plus an interview with Aung Kaung Myat on Operation 1027 in Myanmar
India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
