Nasheed

The Machiavellis of Malé

How the politics of vengeance in the Maldives is destroying its democracy.

| Nov 05, 2015

The Maldivian political thriller

Democracy is being challenged as the Maldivian government leverages to make the opposition toe the line.

| Jul 11, 2015

Democracy on trial

What the persecution of political rivals means for the Maldivian democracy

| Apr 17, 2015

Latest Articles

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

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between