Analysis
Nepal’s Rasuwa Flood Disaster is an Alert to Southasia and The World
Human-induced change to natural systems has hit the Himalaya and it is from here that the global alarm must be raised – but Southasia’s ability to…
Region: Asia
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Tightrope Walk
India must avoid signing on to West-driven agendas that would alienate Russia, China or Iran, while simultaneously resisting Sino-Russian attempts to turn BRICS into an explicit…
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Why Coercion Doesn’t Work
WHILE leaders of the hybrid government prioritise foreign engagements and overseas trips, domestic challenges continue to intensify. Public discontent and unrest are mounting across the country…
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The Youth Jobs Crisis Fuelling India’s Cockroach Janta Party Protests
A new youth protest movement in India that started as online satire is now staging an ongoing sit-in in New Delhi calling for the resignation of…
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What Is to Be Done? The Opposition’s Last Chance to Stop India’s Rightward Tilt
The recent defeats of regional parties cannot but have emboldened the rampaging right-wing to conclude that the time has come to make the final push towards…
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Democratic Refuge?
Electioneering in Gilgit-Baltistan centers on these slogans and promises: should you (s)elect us to power, we would make G-B like Karachi; if (s)elected, we would make…
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Modi’s Enablers
Rahul Gandhi may be a good fellow; nonetheless, those who wish for a successful pushback against the regime of the BJP should perhaps stop looking to…
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Truce Holds A Year After Brief Indo-Pak War, Conflict Continues
A year has passed since conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, briefly raising fears of an all-out war between the two nuclear powers. While violent…
Analysis
The Lethal Policy Choice of Inequality: How India’s Super Rich Rule Over Democracy
In a country like India, nine out of ten workers are informal workers who are forced to work in insecure, unsafe jobs at dirt wages with…
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Terrorism, Narratives and Indo-Pak Tension
At the recent SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting in Bishkek, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, "We must not forget that terrorism has no nationality and no…
Analysis
The Next Five Years Won’t Be Easy
Nepal has never quite done this before. A party barely three years old, born from the fury of a generation that flooded Kathmandu’s streets demanding accountability,…
Analysis
From Kathmandu to Casablanca, A Generation Under Surveillance is Rising Up
In 2025, youth-led protests erupted everywhere from Morocco to Nepal, Madagascar and Europe. A generation refused to remain silent in the face of economic precariousness, corruption…