natural disasters
Shelter from the storm
Cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Gawher Nayeem Wahra | Sep 03, 2015
Waiting for disaster
Burma has failed to learn lessons from Cyclone Nargis.
Morley J Weston | Aug 21, 2015
Everybody loves a good earthquake
Or how a natural disaster in the neighbourhood is just what belligerent foreign policy needs.
Pamela Philipose | Jul 12, 2015
Latest Articles
India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
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
