Politics

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Sourcing critique

Excavating Burma’s rich intellectual past, carefully preserved by private collectors, can contribute to the ongoing debate on the country’s controversial march towards neoliberalism.

By Geoﬀ Myint

/ 14 Jan 2014

A requiem for the Jaffna Library

Chronicling the fall and resurrection of the Jaffna Public Library, and mourning all that can never be recovered

By Sundar Ganesan

/ 14 Jan 2014

Autonomy under siege

Three women in the militarised spaces of Kashmir describe traumatic accounts of sexual violence and their struggles to gain justice.

By Freny Manecksha

/ 7 Jan 2014

Southasian aid regimes

It is too often forgotten that aid giving is a political project.

By Nilanjana Biswas

/ 17 Dec 2013

A man in US military uniform carrying a gun climbing a ladder.

The men who would be king

Abdulla Yameen’s narrow win over Mohamed Nasheed in the 2013 Maldives election was greeted with scant celebration, both on the streets of Male and in the victor’s camp.

By J J Robinson

/ 6 Dec 2013