South Asia
US’s Indian Ocean proxy war: Sri Lanka, Maldives in the crosshairs
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Apr.3, 2021
Maldivian parliamentarians have been up in arms since the government’s signing of a defence agreement with India in February which, according...
India Joins French-led Military Drills in the Bay of Bengal, Escalating...
India and its Quad partners are drilling with France in the Bay of Bengal
Posted on April 4, 2021
Categories India is joining its fellow Quad...
Sri Lanka’s ‘IndoPacific’ role revealed in secret US document?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The launch in Colombo of a Trilateral Maritime Security Secretariat, for cooperation between Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives, merits closer scrutiny....
Kerala polls: Left triumph will help transform the very base of...
Vijay Prashad spoke to Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac about the upcoming legislative elections in Kerala.
March 17, 2021
Vijay Prashad spoke to Kerala’s Finance Minister...
100 days of revolt, & still raring to go
By Indra Shekhar Singh
9 March 2021
As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of...
Did nuclear spy devices in the Himalayas trigger India floods?
By Soutik Biswas
Feb. 21, 2021
In a village in the Indian Himalayas, generations of residents have believed that nuclear devices lie buried under the snow...
Amit Shah has plans to form BJP governments in Sri Lanka,...
February 15, 202
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb has revealed how Home Minister Amit Shah once told him about his plans to expand BJP to...
Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia
By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange,
Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
November 25, 2020
photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...
Massive state repression of protesters in West Bengal demanding jobs and...
The call to mobilization given by left students and youth organizations had also expressed its support for the ongoing farmers agitation against the pro-corporate...
Inde, Pakistan, question du pouvoir.
31 Janvier 2021
En Inde, l’épreuve de force du 26 janvier s’est soldée par un match nul, ce qui veut dire en fait une victoire...