Asia Pacific

The Nuclear Danger in Asia

Daryl G. Kimball / Arms Control Today Jan 9, 2025 Simmering tensions among China, India and Pakistan are driving a triangular nuclear arms race. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Science

As Biolabs Multiply, Concerns About Oversight Grow

Priyanka Pulla, Michael Schulson / Undark Jan 2, 2025 India’s policymakers have ambitious plans for pathogen research. Can safety infrastructure keep up? Dig deeper ( 23 Min. Read )

Film

What Quiet Meditation on an Eastern Himalayan Moth Can Teach Us

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Nov 1, 2024 Two Indian filmmakers on the importance of looking at the world with more attention and hearing with more intent. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Asia Pacific

In Narrow Win for Modi, Indian Voters See Through Nationalist Rhetoric

Sumit Ganguly / The Conversation Jun 5, 2024 Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party hoped for a landslide but only secured 240 parliamentary leaving them short of the 272 needed to form a government. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Global Voices

Letter from Wabgaon: Crisis in India’s Cotton Country

Safina Nabi / Truthdig Oct 27, 2023 As men leave the drought-wracked countryside in search of better pay, the backbreaking production of the world’s second largest cotton harvest has become “women’s work.” Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Activism

Progressives Denounce Potential Prosecution of Activist Indian Author

Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Oct 11, 2023 Arundhati Roy has been accused of sedition for a 2010 speech in which she advocated for the secession of the brutally repressed Kashmir region. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Asia Pacific

Fossil Fuels Make Every Breath People Take in Asia Deadly

Bill McKibben / Common Dreams Sep 7, 2023 New data last week from University of Chicago researchers showed that across South Asia, air pollution—mostly from burning fossil fuels—is robbing people of five years of life on average. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Global Voices

To Serve, Health Care Workers Bear the Burdens of Climate Change

Sanskrita Bharadwaj / Truthdig Jul 26, 2023 The warming Earth is making the role of health care workers in places like Assam more vital and more dangerous. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

World

When Neoliberalism Came to the Indian Farm

Tanya Matthan/ Himal May 31, 2023 India's farmers are on the brink—mainly because of neoliberal reforms that have made seeds too expensive and polluted soil and water. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Global Voices

Prohibition in India

Raksha Kumar / Truthdig Mar 15, 2023 Why women in India who wanted a ban on alcohol now regret it. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Asia Pacific

The Costs of South Asian Chauvinism

Ram Puniyani / InDepth News Jan 25, 2023 In India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, religious politics has led to economic disaster. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Armed With Protest and Poetry, a Muslim Ghetto in India Fights Back

Raksha Kumar / Truthdig Mar 4, 2020 The people of Mumbra fear that the government is threatening their independence and their identity. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )