metoo
#MeToo in Sri Lanka, Myanmar’s jade mines, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and more
Southasiasphere episode 09: Updates and analysis from around the region.
The Editors | Jul 09, 2021
Can’t catch that big break
Is gatekeeping and nepotism in Lollywood stunting aspiring actors?
Neha Maqsood | May 31, 2021
Remaking #MeToo in Sri Lanka
A personal reflection on the limits and possibilities of the social-media phenomenon.
Subha Wijesiriwardena | Feb 25, 2020
Pakistan’s missing #MeToo movement
Why has #MeToo remained a murmur and not gained more traction in Pakistan?
Hafsa Khawaja | Jan 11, 2019
Performing lust, rendering misogyny
Netflix’s ‘brave new’ offering treads old ground.
Rutuja Deshmukh | Nov 30, 2018
The Southasian Conversation: Women in media
A podcast conversation on how women in media negotiate Southasia's public and professional spaces.
The Editors | Aug 01, 2018
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Imran Khan’s attempted arrest, UN appeal for Afghanistan aid, a graphic novel on Naga repatriation and more
March - Updates and analysis from around the region
A disappeared Maldivian journalist’s family still waits for closure
Eight years after he vanished, and despite an official report pointing to his abduction and murder, Ahmed Rilwan is yet to be declared dead, and powerful officials allegedly linked to the killers evade justice
Punjab’s battles over Bhagat Singh
Controversies over the anti-colonial revolutionary expose Punjab’s political fissures, with the farmers’ protest movement, Communists, Khalistanis, the AAP and other parties all having staked their own claims
Tehreek-i-Taliban is making its way back in Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Taliban’s resurgence reveals the failure of the Pakistan government’s anti-terror policy and its ambivalent, contradictory relationship with Islamist militant groups
