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Struggling to cope with extreme heat, a farmer in Multan, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, returns home early to avoid the blazing sun in July this year. Agricultural workers are struggling to ensure reliable food production in Punjab and across Pakistan amid extreme weather.
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Farmers in Multan bear the brunt of extreme heat in a warming Punjab

Jamaima Afridi
In Multan, fierce heat and other effects of the climate crisis are hurting the health and livelihoods of agricultural workers, resulting in damaged crops, heat-related illnesses, and other adverse eff ...

Podcast of the week

Rising hatred against India’s minority Muslim community is a central theme in Geentanjali Shree’s ‘Our City That Year’, translated by Daisy Rockwell. It tells a story about the violence of majority communities that hold power while claiming victim status.

Southasia Review of Books podcast #09: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell on ‘Our City That Year’ and India’s invisible partitions

The International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo discuss their latest book – and why its story, based loosely around the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, remains deeply relevant today
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