“Japanese Management, Indian Resistance” recounts the battle of Indian automotive workers against a coterie of partisans to capital — from management and police to the judiciary and political elites.

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s latest book provides an illuminating account of the political and cultural apparatus of aspiration and coercion that underpins neoliberalism in the Global South.

Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective – with not enough to offer regions like South Asia. 

In a book that breaks new ground in scholarship on Pakistani militarism, Maria Rashid explores how the Pakistan Army manages emotions like grief, pride and fear among foot soldiers and their families.

A review of Rosita Armytage’s Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan.

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

Diaspora fiction favourites of the Jamhoor community.

In support of Afiya Zia’s secular feminism.

A review of Michael Levien’s Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India.

A review of Afiya Zia’s book, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?