Noorjahan Bose’s memoir of her pioneering life recounts a host of stories born of female autonomy – all while spanning Partition, the Bangla Language Movement, the Liberation War and the post-independence history of Bangladesh
Veteran journalist and Afghanistan analyst Kate Clark explains how Afghan people have been living under the Taliban’s ultra-conservative rule while grappling with global isolation and a crumbling economy
In ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian’, Neha Dixit studies the past 30 years of inequalities and majoritarianism in urban India through the eyes of a Muslim migrant woman
In exile from Sri Lanka and marginalised abroad, women who once fought in the country’s civil war are almost completely silenced – but through poetry some have found a way to speak out, to remember, to protest, to mourn and to heal
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans in Pakistan face forcible deportation even after they were officially registered – including women, journalists and others especially vulnerable to repression by Afghanistan’s Taliban government
A conversation with the author Smriti Ravindra on her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’, and how it sheds light on the long-ignored topic of the Madhesi experience, particularly that of women
When one thinks of road construction, one often conjures up images of muscular men digging trenches and moving boulders. At this year's Photo Kathmandu, Nepal's international
