An examination of the OMP’s records reveals thousands of missing names and unexplained discrepancies in official tallies of Sri Lanka’s disappeared, raising questions of whether this truth-seeking mechanism has become another instrument of impunity
A growing crisis over jobs, debt and AI has put India’s middle class off Modi and his economic promises – and shaken its faith in the ideal of merit
Tyler Williams’s history of early modern Hindi reveals a literary world far more diverse and materially complex than the contemporary definition of the language suggests, challenging fixed ideas about literature and cultural history
Fearless journalism by Southasians, for Southasians – fully independent and with no strings attached.
The ISPR has outgrown its original role to become a major tool of the Pakistan Army’s power – and now also of Asim Munir’s ambition
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold of landlordism and poverty in Nepal’s southern plains
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
