representation

Afghanistan’s uncertainties

 Afghan women activists face a difficult future under a Taliban administration.

| Sep 07, 2021

The face of female leadership

Do women politicians in high office in Southasia offer something different from their male counterparts?

| Mar 24, 2021

The good Indian American

A critique of Indian American representation in contemporary American television.

| Jun 24, 2020

Southasia’s free speech conundrum

How the misuse of social and mainstream media contribute to misperceptions and violence.

| Feb 09, 2015

Electoral systems in Southasia

As Afghanistan’s election result hangs in the balance, a look at the electoral systems in the region.

| Sep 09, 2014

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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