In a startling coincidence, two editorials in newspapers on either side of the border in India and Pakistan took up the same thing on the same day. Divided in blood and gore, both countries are united in perpetuating the colonial hierarchies of institutional injustice.
A surge of AI-generated fake videos and photos targeting #Nepal’s electoral candidates is distorting political discourse and threatening the integrity of democratic choice.
The trauma of last September’s gunfire still lingers in Nepal ahead of elections on 5 March as the ‘Gen Z’ constituency moves from protest to polls. Will change finally outpace the old guard?
Survival is permitted; ambition is not. A journalist who has long resisted the systemic political logic of ‘honour’-based violence reflects on these patterns, twenty years after a brutal murder in her adopted country, Britain.
As racism hardens across the U.S. and U.K., Southasian diasporas are being pushed to choose between accommodation and resistance, with growing numbers opting for coalition over capitulation.
The electorate of this delta nation has given politicians another opportunity to build a democratic, peaceful and harmonious nation. While the road ahead is challenging, some tasks are achievable.
Is Nepal’s premier cricket spectacle building a new sports economy or simply dressing up old hustles in brighter colours?
The upcoming elections on 12 February will decide whether Bangladesh’s revolution produces a new republic or merely rotates the elites.
A Cambridge-based Southasian collective documents how rising rents are displacing working-class families, turning housing justice into a love letter to the city they are being priced out of.
Pollution from North India and Pakistan is clouding Kathmandu’s skies, exposing how shared airsheds are accelerating health crises and glacier melt.
What Southasian spaces lose when anti-Blackness goes unspoken and what past movements can teach us about widening the circle again.
Meeting the author, “strikingly ordinary in the most grounding sense,” at a book signing, restores a young Nepali’s faith “in the small, persistent efforts we make each day to stand for what matters”.
Personal recollections from a Pakistani ‘OPium’ about a Lahore-born #Bollywood musical icon whose stories are entwined with many legendary figures, and whose immortal melodies continue to inspire and shape popular music.
India and Pakistan’s media bans blocking access to each other’s news platforms are narrowing public exposure to cross-border perspectives, says a recently released statement jointly endorsed by several groups and individuals, calling for the ban to be lifted.
A young girl finds a magical hidden bookshelf in her great-grandfather’s clay-walled room in a village, filled with Persian books. Pakistan’s 2022 floods took away the room, and the grief lingers until she finds a piece of fiction that gives her a language to understand what that loss meant.
Acclaimed scientist and cancer researcher Tayyaba Hasan blends fierce loyalty with gentle mentorship, teaching conviction, resilience, and ambition while championing bold ideas and life-changing photodynamic therapies long before the world recognised their transformative power.
A recent report by the rights organisation Concerned Citizens Group in India flags deepening alienation, curbs on religious freedom, shrinking press freedom, economic distress, and fears of youth drifting toward drugs and radicalisation.
As we enter #2026, calls for peace feel both urgent and fragile in a world marked by escalating violence and deepening divisions. In this reflective essay, a political analyst & her niece show that peace is not only a wish but a practice, nurtured through small, sustained acts of remembrance & care.
Born into a family uprooted from Rawalpindi during Partition, Bhasin sahab never carried bitterness. If he ever referred to himself as a refugee, it was usually in humour — often as a light-hearted excuse when he didn’t want to discuss the finer details of a festival he wasn’t fully familiar with.
A political scientist in London analyses the effect the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy is having, not just on far-right communities in America and Europe, but also on the communities they are targeting.
Media and human rights organisations across Southasia call for accountability and the safeguarding of press freedoms, an issue that resonates across the region and beyond.
Leadership is not about amplifying public anger. It is about absorbing it. Slowing the moment. Creating space for facts. Especially when eight minutes is how long it would take a missile launched between Pakistan and India to reach its target, comments a retired fighter pilot.
Tribute to a beloved icon who embodied values like the importance of civil dialogue regardless of disagreements – even more relevant in today’s conflict-ridden online culture.
The death of the charismatic and popular student leader #OsmanHadi sparked widespread violence across #Bangladesh. This is just what his killers wanted. But Hadi believed in the slow, painstaking process of building a new Bangladesh. He knew there could be no short-cuts.
Members of the online book club Readers Without Borders and the Southasia Peace Action Network meet to discuss Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s latest publication.
Ilyas Chatta’s recently published, groundbreaking book ‘Citizens to Traitors’ breaks through the ‘political forgetting’ that has long characterized the region and its post-colonial conflicts.
‘South Asia Bound: The Cost of National Identity,’ a documentary filmed in Pakistan over the summer and premiered in the Boston area recently, highlights how exclusionary narratives inherited from 1947 still shape national identities.
India is at a critical point in its relationship with the West. To develop a more balanced partnership, the nation must redefine its priorities and its aspirations for itself.
An unexpected rebellion unfolds in a corner of the SOAS Library through an innovative exhibit that invites visitors to witness women’s voices, long pushed to the margins, through poetry, art, and archival memory.
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