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Screen Southasia: Q&A session with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten

A conversation with the filmmaker Kesang Tseten, director of 'Hami Kunako Manche' (We Corner People)

| Apr 12, 2023

Canadian-Tamil comedian Sunthar V navigates queerness and Tamil identity

Sunthar V, founder of the Tamil Comedy Club in central London, attempts to push social boundaries with his comedy in Chennai

| Mar 27, 2023

The ‘note’ economy

A brief history of English-literature exams in contemporary India.

| Aug 03, 2020

Borrowed Vocabularies

Farrukh Dhondy’s whimsical exploration of words.

| Jul 18, 2016

A fading khaki tapestry

The death of small languages in Pakistan represents the death of civilisations.

| Mar 17, 2015

These songs do not die

Could a region as varied as Southasia expect anything other than today's dizzying cornucopia of literary creations?

| May 01, 2011

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India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up

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Disillusioned with the Taliban, Pakistan reverses its four-decade Afghan policy

As Kabul refuses to act against the TTP and Baloch militant groups, Pakistan is ending the support it has extended to the Taliban since 1994 and its welcome to refugees from Afghanistan since the 1980s

The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa

‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality

Interview: The precarity of Afghan migrants in Pakistan

Political scientist and author Sanaa Alimia speaks of the long history of racial profiling, harassment and deportation of Afghan migrants, in the context of Pakistan’s recent crackdown