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Nepal Airport Scandal Taints Belt and Road Image

A multi-million-dollar bribery scandal over Nepal’s Pokhara airport has given ammunition to critics who accuse.......

The politics of space and infrastructure in Southasian cities

IN 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a 17-kilometre bicycle lane was laid.......

Mosque cafes brew community for younger, less religious generations of Muslims

As Manahil Khan stood at the balloon-decorated entrance of Salsabeel Cafe, she took in the.......

The President and the Monroe Doctrine

The latest view from the kaleidoscope through which to observe US President Donald Trump’s worldview.......

Philip Bowring

Journalist Rana Ayyub in danger in India: 10 NGOs unite to demand immediate action from police

In an open letter sent on 19 November 2025, to the Navi Mumbai police commissioner,.......

Eight Q&As, One Narrative: The Curious Timing Of The Hasina Media Blitz In India

Something very strange happened in the mainstream Indian media just before Sheikh Hasina, the former.......

From Kabul to Kyiv, Trump’s pattern is clear – negotiate with enemies, sideline allies

MICK RYAN The past week’s events surrounding the new Russian-American plan to end the war.......

Bangladesh’s economy is not collapsing but undergoing a necessary reset

By Faisal Mahmud The recent wave of pessimism surrounding Bangladesh’s economy under its interim administration,.......

High stakes in India’s refusal to send former Bangladesh PM to trial

SHANTHIE MARIET D’SOUZA “This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and.......

Is India Recalibrating its Stance Toward Post-Hasina Bangladesh?

For several decades, India’s relationship with Bangladesh was rigidly linear: trust the Awami League (AL),.......

What Myanmar’s Navy Has Been Learning From Russia

Three warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet arrived in Yangon in the middle of last month.......

Looking to the Future, Not the Past

As Bangladesh’s February 2026 election campaign kicks off this December, appeals to history are very.......

Jon Danilowicz

Congressman Hansen Clarke supports South Asia Journal at FOBANA

Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-MI) was one of the major guests at the 25th annual convention.......

South Asia Journal

The Folk and the Classical in North Indian Raga Music

“When God created us in this world, notes and melodies were allocated among the polis.”.......

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Key initial findings of NATO probe on Salala attack

The NATO investigation about the Salala attack has been completed two days ahead of the.......

South Asia Journal

Mosques, Temples, and Theaters: We Need to Change the Script

by Falguni Sheth Yesterday, less than 48 hours after the shootings in Oak Creek, Wisconsin,.......

Falguni Sheth

Has the Economist got it right?

how to learn chinese language The Economist Magazine published a damning editorial last month.......

David Bergman

The Tragedies of Other Places

Rafia Zakaria writing in Guernica about the recent bombing in Boston: As The bombings.......

Rafia Zakaria

Bangladesh Beware: A Lesson from Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law

For over two months Bangladesh has been locked in a fierce battle pitting the government.......

Knox Thames

My Pakistan Television Show

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Shadab Zeest Hashmi