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In the floodplains of northern Bihar, where seasonal migration has long shaped village life and women rarely handled money beyond household survival,…
This is part two of a two part interview. Part one is available here. With a population of 1.47 billion, India has…
Part One of a two-part interview. Part two is availableĀ here. Indian human rights lawyer, educator, and writer Nandita Haksar boldly argues that…
In the wake of the historic July uprising, Bangladesh is undergoing an unprecedented constitutional and administrative transformation. Following the fall of the…
The United States, along with 14 other high-tech countries, established Pax Silica in December 2025 as a āstrategic initiativeā to counter Chinaās…
Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to…
In mid-May 2026, an article by Mohammad Altaf Afridi, a former USAID program director in Pakistan, published in The Guardian attracted considerable…
More than sixty years ago, Indonesiaās first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti…
US President Donald Trumā’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijingās…
There continues to be unlettered heartburn about the definition of āappropriate timeā with respect to returning statehood to Jammu & Kashmir.As if…
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