Bangladesh goes to the polls on 12 February 2026 (with a referendum on the “July National Charter”) under a caretaker government helmed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, and temperatures are heating up. Two narratives are converging: legitimacy on the street (who “owns” the post-outrage moment?) and authority over institutions (who gets to hold power after Election Day?).
India’s Pursuit of Dominance Behind a Diplomatic Façade
India’s ambition to project itself as the preeminent power in South Asia and a responsible...
Revisiting India and Pakistan Perpetuated Animosities
History exists on facts of life and shallowness of a nation’s history are the inept...
Pakistan-Afghanistan Rift and India’s Strategic Gains
Pakistan has been witnessing a surge in cases of terrorist activities since the Taliban came...
Atmanirbhar or Airworthy? Tejas Under the Spotlight
India’s Tejas fighter aircraft has long been marketed as the crown jewel of Atmanirbhar Bharat—a...
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Fall 2025: Issue 43
Nepal’s Digital Uprising: Discord, Corruption, and the Future of South Asia
When Kathmandu’s skyline turned red with fire on the evening of September 10, 2025, few...
Exposing the Failure of India’s Kashmir Policy
In September 2024, addressing a jubilant rally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, Indian Prime...
Pahalgam Massacre – A Case of Diversionary Strategy to Bust India’s Normalcy Narrative in Kashmir
Retaliating to India’s coercive measures following the massacre of 26 tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, responsibility...
Speaking Eye-to-Eye with India
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus has repeatedly emphasized the importance of regional cooperation for the...
Foreign Hands Fetish and Domestic Fire: On Intelligence Power, Uprisings, and the Decline of Iranian Sovereignty
Iran does not exist in the contemporary world order as a client state or as...
US military intervention in Iran could spark hostilities not just in the Gulf and Israel, but also Turkey and Azerbaijan
A US military intervention in Iran doesn’t just risk exposing Gulf states and Israel to...
WE, The Peoples, Time and Earth are Victims of Wars
In an age of ignorance, time had no meaning and power knew not the logic...
Jihad in Plain Sight: Understanding the Empire
All day, every day, Western countries lecture the world about being civilized, respecting human rights,...
Iran’s Supreme Leader is caught in a Catch-22
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is caught between a rock and a hard place....
The Rohingya case could redefine genocide and that matters for ASEAN
As hearings concluded on 30 January at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Rohingya...
US policy in post- election Myanmar
Myanmar has yet to attract serious attention from President Trump. The silence might seem surprising,...
Myanmar junta wraps election with ally set to seal victory
: Voting concluded in Myanmar's month-long election on Sunday (Jan 25), with the dominant pro-military...
Myanmar stages first phase of polling with thin turnout
The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of general...
Myanmar’s “general’s election” has failed before it has even started
On 15 December, at a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar’s deputy minister for information, Major...
Are Bangladesh's youth turning against India?
Graffiti - angry, witty, sometimes poetic - sprawls across walls and corridors, echoing the Gen...
Hindutva mob gathers outside Hindu man’s door for defending Muslim shopkeeper; Rahul calls him ‘hero of India’
“I am not a Hindu, I am not a Muslim, I am not a Sikh,...
“Indian Government Has Normalized Violence Against Minorities and Critics,” Human Rights Watch Says
A man sleeps on a wooden plank amid the rubble of his demolished home near...
With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own
Min Aung Hlaing, Senior General, Myanmar Emma Palmer, Griffith University Just four months ago,...
How Pakistan Got Divided: Memoirs of Rao Farman Ali Khan Review
Imagine living through a national tragedy only to watch the most powerful architects of that...
