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South Asia

Amid pressures from Quad, China discusses military ties with Sri Lanka

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya With the Indian Ocean increasingly becoming a locus of big power contestation, the recent two-day visit to Sri Lanka by Chinese Defence...

‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s...

It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile,...

The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing

by Vijay Prashad April 26, 2021 For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist Photograph Source: Gwydion M. Williams – CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to overstate the grip of...

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...