Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, recovers a forgotten history of anticolonial solidarity.
Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to respond has been compromised by its geopolitical divisions
The emergence of the reactionary Reservation Hatao Andolan in the wake of the CJP protests is bringing questions about caste and inequality in Indian education to the forefront
Jal Sahelis reviving local water management are challenging the Ken-Betwa Link Project’s controversial vision of development and water security in Bundelkhand
Manipur’s challenge is not its ethnic diversity but the absence of a shared political framework in which Meiteis, Kukis, Nagas and others feel equally protected – and the BJP government has shown no sign of delivering it
India’s Gen Z and the Cockroach Janta Party have transformed outrage over exam paper leaks into a nationwide protest movement challenging Narendra Modi’s regime, and shaken an ingrained fear of his government and the Hindu Right
Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while deepening exclusions along caste and religious lines
As Baloch nationalism changed from tribal sardar-led, negotiation-driven politics to a human rights movement, it opened spaces for women like the BYC’s Mahrang Baloch
