Delhi Muslims fear they will never see justice for religio...
Muslims offer Friday prayers at a mosque in Mustafabad, Delhi, two days after last year’s riots. Photograph: Xavier Galiana/AFP...
In Kashmir, fear of the pheran returns in full force
February 27 ,2021
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By: Irfan Amin Malik
Photo: Kandukuru Nagarjun/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Civilians wearing pherans – the long robe traditionally worn in Kashmir in wint...
India’s democratic exceptionalism is now withering away. T...
February 25 ,2021
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By: Ashutosh Varshney
A woman selling the Indian Flag in Chandigarh. (Express photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
“Since the end of the Cold War, most demo...
Gen Z breaks out from Suu Kyi's shadow, takes charge of re...
February 16 ,2021
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By: Tan Hui Yee
A young generation of political activists critical of her leadership is now setting the political agenda.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
The slight...
Roaring crowds, roti and Rihanna: the view from a Delhi fa...
February 13 ,2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Puffing out his chest, his lime green turban luminescent in the morning sun, Surinder Singh made it clear he was a man who would not ea...
How did the farmers’ protests turn into an oppressed peopl...
February 11 ,2021
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By: Amjed Jaaved
Police baton charge and water torrents on elderly farmers, besides inclement weather, sometimes become freezing. Farmers’ local a...
Myanmar needs a new kind of democracy
February 9 ,2021
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By: Thant Myint-U
Myanmar needs a fresh path to democracy. Free and fair elections (and respect for the results) are essential. But also essential is the...
Al Jazeera story, government’s response and the state of o...
February 6 ,2021
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By: Mahfuz Anam
Photo: Collected
The Al Jazeera report on Bangladesh titled "All the Prime Minister's Men", aired early Tuesday morning, revealed...
Myanmar: Inside the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's g...
After days of stop-start threats by the military, on Feb. 1 the government of Myanmar silently and seamlessly changed hands, without...
What’s next for Myanmar
February 4 ,2021
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By: Andrew Nachemson
A soldier walks in the City Hall compound in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 1
In the week leading up to the coup executed in the early h...
Beijing expands Indian Ocean FTAs westward with Mauritius
February 3 ,2021
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Port Louis, the Mauritian capital, is getting busier as the free trade agreement with China comes into play, but observers are c...
Taliban risks losing international legitimacy
January 30 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
A high-powered Taliban delegation led by Mullah Baradar arrived in Tehran for consultations on January 26, 2021
A high-level...
A big beautiful wall: Pakistan has fenced itself off from...
January 29 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The tribesmen outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul huddle into their woollen shawls and wait. A few years ago, grumble Abdul Haq...
Red Fort riot was India’s ‘Capitol Hill moment’
January 28 ,2021
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By: Sumit Sharma
Farmer protesters hoisted flags at the top of the dome on the Red Fort, New Delhi, January 26, 2021. Photo: Getty
The deterioratio...
The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge
January 25 ,2021
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By: Samar Halarnkar
Hindu Yuva Vahini members pose inside the vigilante group's office in the city of Unnao. Photo: Reuters
It is now clear that if yo...
Crises at home leave Biden little time for Asia in first 1...
After a tumultuous U.S. election, Asia is about to see Joe Biden in action as president. But answers to key questions like China...
India: Why the anti-CAA and farmers' agitations have been...
January 19 ,2021
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By: Ajay Gudavarthy
India has been witnessing street protests after the ‘awe and shock’ that the current regime pursued in its first few years...
Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism res...
January 18 ,2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Indian police paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi in 2008. Since the BJP came to power in 2014, his vision of equal rights for all religi...
India’s ‘love jihad’ laws: Another attempt to subjugate Mu...
January 16 ,2021
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By: Apoorvanand
On January 6, the Supreme Court of India declined to stay controversial laws recently enacted in several states to tackle “love j...
‘I could just vanish’: In Kabul, pocket notes to prevent a...
January 14 ,2021
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By: David Zucchino and Fatima Faizi
For some young people, the pocket note has become an essential element of daily life — an identity marker ensuring that they wi...
Countering China is a multifaceted problem for India
January 11 ,2021
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By: Anita Inder Singh
An expansionist, economically and militarily strong China looms large over India’s north-eastern border, its Indian Ocean neighbo...
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