The Internet has allowed for an important kinship to spring up within the Bangladeshi gay community. But the state of emergency of the past year has shown that it is now time to move beyond the virtual.

The women’s and ‘queer’ movements of India must continue to work to strengthen their alliance, which will undoubtedly be positive for both in the long run.

The Internet has allowed for an important kinship to spring up within the Bangladeshi gay community. But the past year of the state of emergency in the country has shown that it is now time to move beyond the virtual.

In the rush to ‘define’, have we forgotten Southasia’s long history of blurring the boundaries of love, of the distinction between the platonic and the sexual?

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal has brought about a significant victory in the ongoing push for sexual rights. But in allowing the state to be the final arbiter of these rights, Nepali activist groups have allowed their own local identities to be overwritten by globalised notions of sexuality.

Few debates are as weighted down with jargon and insider terminology as those involving sexuality. But how is this affecting those at the centre of these dialogues?

To gain an understanding of alternative sexualities in modern-day Pakistan, most of the well-known stereotypes need to be tossed aside.

With broader human-rights issues in Sri Lanka being eclipsed by the ethnic conflict, sexuality-rights activists have a hard time being heard

If same-sex politics are to have any effect in Southasia, the sexuality ‘movements’ in the region need to move out of the arena of funding and into the sphere of independent thinking.  

These two bedrock strategies of the queer-rights movement make sense separately, but are problematic when pursued simultaneously.

The king's party is dead; long live the people's parties. Now let us hold our collective breath as Pakistan takes the plunge back to democracy.

A head-in-the-sand approach regarding avian influenza has now forced the Dhaka government to scramble-some say overreact-during the current outbreak, most directly impacting small-scale farmers.

Pakistan's first transplant legislation has finally gone into effect, but the controversies that continue to dog this regulation could significantly limit its efficacy.

Can Burma's generals maintain their strength against a sustained effort on the part of the clergy and continuing international approbrium?

During the year leading up to India’s Lok Sabha elections of May 2009, the BJP’s attempts to avert another electoral disaster will become increasingly frantic.

A collage of a new-old Calcutta street, where no one thinks of engineering society.

The personal tug of Vilayat Khan's Darbari Kanada.

The Last Brahmin: Life and reflections of a modern-day Sanskrit pandit by Rani Siva Sankara Sarma translated from the Telugu by D Venkat Rao