The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.
Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.
The Whole Family
A photo-essay on Nepal's fragmented families, whose loved ones were forcefully disappeared by state security forces during the People’s War.
COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India
India’s COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity for the BJP government to unleash privatization, implement neoliberal policies, and crush dissent.
Narrating a People’s History of 1971
A review of Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
More than an Assassin: Revisiting Shaheed Udham Singh on His 80th Martyrdom Day
Udham Singh is widely revered for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in order to avenge the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. But by focusing solely on this deed, we obscure the wider politics that shaped it.
Tagore Street, Tel Aviv: Against Normalizing Bangladeshi—Israeli relations
The normalization of the Israeli apartheid-state by liberal Bangladeshis calls for a revival of revolutionary solidarities and a South Asian politics that champions the Palestinian cause.
Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.
There are No Win-Win Solutions
Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.
The Romance of Revolution in Emergency-Era Delhi
As many today struggle against an undeclared BJP-led Emergency in India, a reflection on the fight against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency — and the role of love.
Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.
Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India
It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.