A violent confrontation at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar factory in 2012 set off an interminable workers’ struggle for justice, reinstatement and labour rights – but the company, the government and the public have looked away
In ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’, the BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet traces Afghanistan’s decades of war and political upheaval through the lives and memories of the people who kept Kabul’s Intercontinental running
Police shootings following communal violence in Sunsari are just the latest reminder of the lethal policing long inflicted on Nepal’s Madhesh region
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
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
Linguistic and historical analysis of Southasian swear words shows that they act as a linguistic mirror, reflecting deep taboos and cultural prejudices as well as unexpected social camaraderie
Deepa Anappara’s ‘The Last of Earth’ revisits the romance of the Great Game and the pundit explorers, but fails to see beyond enduring notions of Tibet and the Himalaya as empty imperial frontiers
An excerpt from the Balochi novel ‘Nazuk’ by Sayad Hashumi, translated by Fazal Baloch
