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The Sindhiyani Tehreek: Revolutionary Feminism in Sindh?
Pakistan, Essay Gohar Ali Memon 11/25/20 Pakistan, Essay Gohar Ali Memon 11/25/20

The Sindhiyani Tehreek: Revolutionary Feminism in Sindh?

With the revival of Pakistan’s feminist movement, Memon recovers one of the country’s less-appreciated women-led organizations—one rooted in the peasantry, not the urban middle-class.

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The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Jennifer Dathan 11/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Jennifer Dathan 11/18/20

The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.

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Beware the Gujarat Model in India’s Covid-19 Recovery
India, Essay Archit Guha 11/15/20 India, Essay Archit Guha 11/15/20

Beware the Gujarat Model in India’s Covid-19 Recovery

Modi’s Gujarat reconstruction model, combining muscular Hindu nationalism with hi-tech modernity and neoliberal privatized development, threatens India’s COVID recovery.

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Kamala Harris’s “American Journey”: Caste, Global Mobility & State Power
Diaspora, India, Essay Tanvi Kohli 11/1/20 Diaspora, India, Essay Tanvi Kohli 11/1/20

Kamala Harris’s “American Journey”: Caste, Global Mobility & State Power

As the Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris is celebrated by South Asian communities, Kohli reflects on intertwined caste, class and imperial forces fueling her ascent to global power.

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Spaces of Resistance: From Indian Coffee House to Tihar Jail
India, Essay Kristin Plys 10/21/20 India, Essay Kristin Plys 10/21/20

Spaces of Resistance: From Indian Coffee House to Tihar Jail

With an alarming rise in political prisoners in BJPs India, a reflection on the historic use of prisons and other urban spaces in resisting authoritarianism.

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Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20

Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster

Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.

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The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20

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”.

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Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20

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.

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The Whole Family
Nepal, Photo Essay Bikkil Sthapit 9/3/20 Nepal, Photo Essay Bikkil Sthapit 9/3/20

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.

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COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India
India, Essay Harshvardhan 8/22/20 India, Essay Harshvardhan 8/22/20

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.

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Narrating a People’s History of 1971
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20 Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20

Narrating a People’s History of 1971

A review of Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

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More than an Assassin: Revisiting Shaheed Udham Singh on His 80th Martyrdom Day
India, Diaspora, Essay Harshvardhan & Prabal Saran Agrawal 7/31/20 India, Diaspora, Essay Harshvardhan & Prabal Saran Agrawal 7/31/20

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.

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