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Killed by contract
By Noah Coburn
American wars, Nepali bodies and the price of the war economy.
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Afghanistan’s election dilemma
By Thomas Ruttig
Afghanistan is under-prepared for robust elections, but postponement could cause further instability.
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Bhutan elections explained
By The Editors
What you need to know about Bhutan’s parliamentary elections being held on 18 October.
Cracked Earth
Oiled sanctuary
By Lalon Sander and Naushad Ali Husein
Why the Sundarban oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen.
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Well - read
The making and unmaking of a star
By Laxmi Murthy
On the life and times of Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan’s first social-media celebrity.
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People & Politics
Bhutan elections explained
By The Editors
What you need to know about Bhutan’s parliamentary elections being held on 18 October.
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Gallery
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Fact sheet on Myanmar
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Before Democracy
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A dog in the fight
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Earthquake babies
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The aftershock
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Searching through the rubble
Grounded
The Maldives’ abducted development
By Peter Dorset
The disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan and the other side of ‘paradise’.
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Mediafile
Through the looking glass
By Chhetria Patrakar
Can international media cover the Maldives without invoking China or India?
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30 Years of Archives
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Source: Wikimedia Commmons
Being queer in Southasia
As India decriminalises consensual same-sex acts, readings on LBGTQ issues in Southasia.
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Illustration: Marcin Bondarowicz
India’s crackdown on dissent
Readings on authoritarian politics in India.
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Whither Saarc?
Ever since Saarc was founded in 1985, it has been shadowed by the rocky relationships between two of its largest members – India and Pakistan. Other members have also affected scheduled Saarc summits, citing domestic reasons or a rocky relationship with either Pakistan or India. Probably, this is the first time that four members – […]
From our Archive:
Anirudha Gupta on Saarc’s failure to resolve the issue of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal (July 1994); S.D. Muni on possibilities of sub-regional cooperation within Saarc (May 1997); Pratyoush Onta on the need to facilitate serious scholarship on realising the potential of the regional association (March 1998); Himal Southasian’s commentary on the ninth Saarc summit (October 1998); After India postponed the eleventh summit in 1999, Praful Bidwai criticised the country for subjugating the priorities of the regional forum to fuel its bilateral rivalry (November 1999); Kanti Bajpai asks if there is a collective regional life beyond the narrow confines of Saarc (January 2000); Kanak Mani Dixit on the need for more people-to-people interaction to truly materialise the ambitions of Saarc (November 2005); Imtiaz Ahmed laying out seven thorny issues between India and Bangladesh that Saarc could step in to mediate (March 2007); Sukumar Murlidharan’s scepticism on the outcomes of 14th Saarc summit (May 2007); Saman Kelegama looks at how Saarc initiatives have failed to make any significant impact to improve people’s lives (August 2008); SAARC's former general secretary; Nihal Rodrigo on the need for Saarc to expand the cooperation with China, East Asia and the West (August 2008); Neera Chandhoke underlines the need for Saarc to discuss the human-rights situation in each of member states’ territories and to lay out a common charter of human rights for Southasia (August 2008); Mahendra P Lama opines that besides the inter-governmental process, Saarc has opened many avenues for people-to-people interactions (August 2008); Shamshad Ahmad on the need for Saarc to move from declaration to implementation (August 2008); Puja Sen and Shubhanga Pandey on the media’s obsession with the India-Pakistan relationship during the SAARC Summit (November 2014); Pratap Bhanu Mehta opines that Southasian integration is not possible without changing the understanding of ‘sovereignty’ (November 2015); and on a funny side, a mock resolution of the eighteenth Southasian regional summit by Puja Sen and Shubhanga Pandey (27 NOVEMBER 2014).
