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An India Out campaign gives the beleaguered Bangladesh Nationalist Party a chance at resurgence

For Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the campaign against India’s hegemony might be the only card left to play against the ruling Awami League

By Anupam Debashis Roy

/ 5 Jun 2024

An India Out campaign gives the beleaguered Bangladesh Nationalist Party a chance at resurgence

State of Southasia #05: Laxmi Murthy on journalism in crisis across Southasia

Journalist and editor Laxmi Murthy examines the stark deterioration of media independence and freedom of expression in Southasia, and its implications for elections and democracies

By The Editors

/ 3 Jun 2024

State of Southasia #05: Laxmi Murthy on journalism in crisis across Southasia

Tamil Nadu has led the fight against the BJP and the Modi model

Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better path for India’s development

By A S Panneerselvan

/ 31 May 2024

Tamil Nadu has led the fight against the BJP and the Modi model

Modi’s uncoordinated approach on Tibet gives China the advantage

While India has hosted and rehabilitated exiled Tibetans, it sees Tibet largely as a tool to counter China and its policies have been reactions to the Chinese narrative

By Bhuchung K Tsering

/ 29 May 2024

Modi’s uncoordinated approach on Tibet gives China the advantage

Dance and performance across boundaries of caste, gender and citizenship in India

Three recent books demonstrate how dancers negotiate individuality and collective identity through their work, and how their gender and sexuality is controlled and reproduced by caste mechanisms in modern Indian society

By Ranjana Dave

/ 27 May 2024

Dance and performance across boundaries of caste, gender and citizenship in India

Snakebites surge across Southasia amid rising heat, floods and habitat loss

Climate change is driving an increase in snakebites and envenomation deaths in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and beyond – and community-driven solutions are leading the fightback

By Diwash Gahatraj and Ali Jabir Malik

/ 24 May 2024

Snakebites surge across Southasia amid rising heat, floods and habitat loss

Modi government’s reactive Myanmar policy keeps it from being a constructive force for democracy

Over the past decade, India has been slow to realise that Myanmar’s anti-democratic military cannot protect its interests in a country where the majority seeks a federal democratic union

By Angshuman Choudhury

/ 22 May 2024

Modi government’s reactive Myanmar policy keeps it from being a constructive force for democracy

Southasia Review of Books Podcast #04: Sumana Roy on literature from the Southasian provinces

In her latest book ‘Provincials’, Sumana Roy explores how writings from the peripheries offers an alternative portrait of the modern Subcontinent

By The Editors

/ 20 May 2024

Southasia Review of Books Podcast #04: Sumana Roy on literature from the Southasian provinces

Bangladesh is vexed by and wary of Modi’s unstinting support to Sheikh Hasina

After a decade of Modi’s reign in India, people in Bangladesh are angry at their government cosying up to a Hindutva regime in New Delhi and tired of India’s influence in their domestic matters

By Kamal Ahmed

/ 15 May 2024

Bangladesh is vexed by and wary of Modi’s unstinting support to Sheikh Hasina

Modi has forcibly integrated Kashmir with India but erased Kashmiris

In the Modi years, India’s Hindu Right has achieved the near-complete subjugation of Indian-administered Kashmir, with the revocation of Article 370, increased militarisation and suspension of elections

By Anuradha Bhasin

/ 9 May 2024

Modi has forcibly integrated Kashmir with India but erased Kashmiris

As India’s election heats up, soaring temperatures from climate change find little mention in mainstream media

Lukewarm coverage of the climate crisis in the Indian media fails to communicate safety measures against extreme heat-related risks this election season

By Aradhna Wal

/ 3 May 2024

As India’s election heats up, soaring temperatures from climate change find little mention in mainstream media

India’s friendly standing and moral status in Sri Lanka are at the mercy of Hindutva and hypernationalism

New Delhi has earned goodwill in Colombo, but the end of Indian pluralism can embolden Sinhala extremists while Katchatheevu and fishing conflicts risk inflaming nationalist passions

By Tisaranee Gunasekara

/ 1 May 2024

India’s friendly standing and moral status in Sri Lanka are at the mercy of Hindutva and hypernationalism