An alliance with the student-led National Citizen Party gives the Jamaat-e-Islami a chance to rebrand ahead of Bangladesh’s first election since the July Revolution
Shahrukh Alam talks to Harsh Mander about the criminalising of protest by Muslims, anti-constitutional arguments in courts, and how cultural narratives have allowed these shifts.
Namit Arora and Romila Thapar on how identities in early and medieval India were formed, contested, and why a shared sense of “Indianness” may be a colonial-era development
Myanmar’s military rulers present the recent election as a “democratic transition”, but increasing repression and mass political arrests expose the real face of a brutal authoritarian regime
Hungry for wildlife and conservation funds, Madhya Pradesh has violated science, the law and the rights of forest dwellers to establish its brand as a tiger-cheetah conservation state
Sociologist Samina Luthfa talks about how women have been caught between an interim government failing to protect them and rising Islamist conservatism targeting their freedoms
With a narrow focus on security and a desire to perpetuate Afghanistan’s dependence on Pakistan, Islamabad has failed to recognise the Taliban’s new regional ambitions and geopolitical strategy
An unsung giant of Gujarati literature, Dalpat Chauhan has fought to reclaim a Dalit history, identity and idiom that resist Gujarat’s exclusivist politics and pride
