internet

Uncertain times

Lessons from uneven and unequal access to information during times of crisis.

Online identities; unfolding realities

For Afghans across the world, social media is a vehicle for mobilising, uniting and contesting ideas of community, as well as a harbinger of newer forms of courtship and love.

| Mar 25, 2014

Marriage 2.0

A rogue exploration of caste, class and gender on Shaadi.com

| Jul 15, 2013

Living in public

A queer internet space with a simple goal: safe housing for gay people in India.

| Jul 15, 2013

The woman who pretended to be who she was (online)

As the internet changes, it challenges us to ask who we really are both online and offline

| Jul 15, 2013

Where next after multimedia?

A new collection of essays seeks to make sense of our new multimedia world, where we are both producers and consumers, newly free and newly constrained

| Jul 15, 2013

The wireless village

A pioneering rural internet scheme in Nepal, and the man behind it, point toward a more inclusive digital future

| Jul 09, 2013

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Pakistan embraces military rule without martial law

New laws have created jurisdiction for the military to operate at both federal and provincial levels of government, with serious implications for Pakistan’s already precarious federation.

Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives

Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital

Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast

Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast

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