nationalism
Making sense of Nepali politics
Scholars of political structures and processes in today’s Nepal struggle to find their feet.
Pranab Kharel and Gaurab KC | Jul 01, 2022
Who needs borders?
A freewheeling discussion on borders and borderlands in Southasia.
The Editors | Sep 15, 2021
The cost of conscience
Megha Majumdar’s novel depicts a world where progress requires bigotry.
Atul Bhattarai | Nov 10, 2020
Redefining citizenship in Pakistan
The PTM movement envisions an alternate relationship between citizen and state.
Hurmat Ali Shah | Apr 28, 2020
Is the mob ruling the roost?
JNU violence shows the fringe is at the Centre.
Salil Tripathi | Jan 07, 2020
Tibet: Impossible yet existent?
A reinvigorated spiritual politics of Tibetan Buddhism could prove to be a way forward.
Mila Samdub | Jan 07, 2020
From ‘Mother India’ to ‘Mission Mangal’
Homegrown technologies at the service of Indian nationalism in Hindi cinema.
Damini Kulkarni | Sep 18, 2019
A novel of thresholds
‘Basanti’ and writing the New Woman in Odia literary culture
S Deepika | May 22, 2019
Echoes of Pakistan in Indian polls
Frenzied use of communal card signals the weakening of democracy.
Pervez Hoodbhoy | May 06, 2019
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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
