Quest for economic sovereignty
IN 1765, undivided India lost its financial sovereignty when Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II granted the East India Company the right to collect taxes (diwani) in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.…
Regional climate risks
WE in South Asia are the children of the monsoon, as described by David Jiménez in his 2008 book. While governments may not always recognise it, we are bound by…
Polycrisis and South-South cooperation
The world is facing the existential threat of climate change crisis. Since this crisis, along with many others, including the ‘Pandemicene’ phenomenon, transcends boundaries, what is required is a meaningful…
Big tech on trial
In April 2025, the Human Rights Court in Kenya issued an unprecedented ruling that it has the jurisdiction to hear a case about harmful content on one of Meta’s platforms.…
The global trade race is on
Pakistan has a history of dropped catches. Just when opportunity swings our way, we let it slip through our fingers. Today, we face another critical moment – and this one…
The British right’s weaponised lies
The recent attempts by British far-right thugs and conservative elements to attack a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex County, UK, indicate that the monstrous phenomenon of ultra-nationalism is not…
Trump’s funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions
The Trump administration’s decision to slash nearly all US foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the…
Country without a soul
India, under Narendra Modi, has descended to its lowliest lows. The civilization of hundreds, nay, thousands of years, has been torn to shreds. The villain of the peace is Modi,…
If the Indus goes,we go too
As Himalayan glaciers retreat and temperatures rise, South Asia’s rivers are becoming weapons of survival, not just sources of life. Nowhere is this more dangerous than along the Indus River,…
Bracing for avoidable blunders
AS India and Pakistan brace for a fresh round of their hop-on, hop-off military stand-off, which some say could be more grievous this time than before, the words of Noam Chomsky from…
