migrants
The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
Megnaa Mehtta | Jul 26, 2021
A woman is her own country
The Making of a Refugee: Part 3 – A series on Afghans in Germany
Taran N Khan | Mar 27, 2019
A map of arriving
The Making of a Refugee: Part 1 – A series on Afghans in Germany
Taran N Khan | Mar 21, 2019
Far from home
A photo essay on Nepali women migrants in India.
Sarita Ramamoorthy and Laxmi Murthy | Jan 21, 2019
Domestic flights
Risks and opportunities for women migrant labourers from Nepal.
Weena Pun | Mar 23, 2017
Far from truth
On the policing of sexuality of migrant workers’ wives in Nepal.
Weena Pun | Dec 23, 2015
ASEAN at sea
The Rohingya crisis exposes ASEAN’s institutional constraints.
Mathew Davies | Jul 03, 2015
The Gorkhalis of Mizoram
A small community of Gorkhalis fights for rights and recognition in ethnocentric Mizoram.
N William Singh | Aug 08, 2012
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In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility
Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too
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In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man
Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply
When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
