The forgotten legacy of Fatima Sheikh, India’s first Musli...
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By: Saad Hasan
Regarded as one of the earliest social reformers, very little is known about the woman who challenged patriarchy and conservative n...
Tun Mrat Naing attempts to erase Rohingya identity and his...
January 14 ,2022
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By: Maung Zarni
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Prothom Alo’s interview with Tun Mrat Naing, the commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army which spearheads Buddhist...
Too big to fail: China eyes Afghanistan investment amid fe...
January 13 ,2022
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By: Betsy Joles
China has been sending aid to Afghanistan, which is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, since the withdrawal of U.S. troops last A...
The gilded cage: Kashmir in winter of an apocalypse
January 10 ,2022
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By: Ather Zia
Photographs: Chinki Sinha
After two years of struggling with the viral apocalypse, an oft-asked question these days is—...
Afghanistan’s diplomats refuse to represent a Terrorist gr...
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Just a week after the Taliban swept through Kabul in mid-August 2021, seizing the preside...
A young Afghan woman on breaking free of the burqa
January 7 ,2022
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By: SULTANA
I hated wearing a burqa. It made me itch, it made me sweat. And it made me invisible. Mine was blue with a small lace opening for the e...
As India continues to humiliate Muslims, I write an elegy...
January 5 ,2022
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By: Ahamad Fuwad
Every day, Muslims wake up to a new humiliation in this country. So much so that when I initially thought of writing this article two w...
“Nobody is interested in Bangladesh”
January 3 ,2022
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By: Naomi Hossain
For years, the Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the country’s statutory tourism board, ran a campaign with this terse instruction...
The End of the Afghanistan war was even worse than anyone...
December 22 ,2021
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By: Fred Kaplan
A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on Aug. 30. Aamir Qureshi/Getty Images
It is now widely concede...
Is the Maoist rebellion on the brink of defeat in India?
December 20 ,2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The seven-decade insurgency is on the wane after a change in New Delhi's military approach has breached several Maoist strongholds,...
Is this the future of Taliban rule?
December 17 ,2021
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By: Andrew North
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The dress is red and revealing....
Why Bengali could never surpass Hindi to become India's to...
December 13 ,2021
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By: B.Z. Khasru
Representative image. Photo: Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0
It may come as a surprise to many people, but it’s true: Bengali had a chan...
On again, off again: A timeline of govt-TTP talks
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The government's announcement that it is holding negotiations with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has left both analysts...
How green was my valley Ladakh’s pashmina-goat-rearing nom...
December 9 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
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Motives behind the soft-line approaches to the Myanmar cou...
December 8 ,2021
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By: Annabelle Heugas
Following the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021, Western countries were quick to express their condemnation and discuss s...
Afghan Military Pilots, on the Run, Feel Abandoned by U.S.
December 2 ,2021
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By: David Zucchino
An Afghan Air Force training exercise in Logar Province in 2018. The United States spent billions of dollars training and equipping...
Make or break for ASEAN to matter in Myanmar
November 29 ,2021
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By: Nile Bowie
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Central Asia hooking up to CPEC
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
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An atheist laid the foundation of Hindu nationalism
November 21 ,2021
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By: Saba Sattar
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India’s position as a secular nation is under threat.
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In a region in strife, India’s moral high ground erodes
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By: Mujib Mashal
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Two Indian families are fighting over 19th century shippin...
November 8 ,2021
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By: Amrit Dhillon
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