Indian Ocean
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
Namrata Raju | Sep 21, 2023
Purse-seiners, trawlers, and the epic fight over fishing in Tamil Nadu
A ban on purse-seine fishing in Tamil Nadu has threatened thousands of fishers’ livelihoods – and they are refusing to give up without a fight
Jeff Joseph | Sep 07, 2023
What Southasia read in 2022
Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists
The Editors | Jan 06, 2023
Who needs borders?
A freewheeling discussion on borders and borderlands in Southasia.
The Editors | Sep 15, 2021
China’s Indian Ocean?
What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.
Amish Raj Mulmi | May 12, 2020
Rising together
The Indian Ocean has become increasingly central, contested and crowded. Not just Southasia but all of southern Asia must reclaim its stake on the water.
C Uday Bhaskar | Sep 01, 2010
Latest Articles
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
Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike
A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between
