inequality
The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
Megnaa Mehtta | Jul 26, 2021
The rise of extremes
Across Southasia, COVID-19 has exacerbated inequality and overshadowed climate change.
The Editors | Dec 04, 2020
Prisoners in a pandemic
COVID-19 reveals structural and systemic inequalities in Sri Lanka’s prison system.
Ambika Satkunanathan | Apr 03, 2020
On happiness and democracy
Is India both the most democratic and among the unhappiest countries in Southasia?
Sreejith Sugunan | Apr 30, 2018
Contradictions of capitalism
Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.
Sunil Bastian | Oct 01, 2010
Nothing free or fair about it
A complicated and veiled system of tariffs allows Western countries to protect their tiny farming populations while millions of farmers in developing countries are swamped under a tide of cheap imports. Such systemic hypocrisy in …
Devinder Sharma | Mar 01, 2003
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