The Limits of the Settler Colonial Analogy in South Asia
Is India’s role in Kashmir “settler colonial” or part of a shared legacy of internal colonialism across South Asia?
After a Dictator, Bangladesh Turns Right
Hardline Islamists gain ground in historic election following the 2024 July Uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.
The Enigma of Pinaki’s Populism
On Pinaki Bhattacharya’s strategies to fame as Bangladesh’s most popular right-wing influencer.
Destituting the Party: The Crisis of the Pakistani Left
A critique of party-centric tendencies within the Pakistani Left’s debate on the India-Pakistan conflict
Babri After Babri: The ‘Disputed Sites’ Playbook
How a seemingly banal ‘legal’ tool enables the destruction of Muslim spaces across India.
Forging the Steel of Unity: Left Politics in Contemporary Pakistan
A defense of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party’s anti-imperialist position that critiques sectarian and messianic tendencies on the Pakistani Left, and advances a dialectical, universalist strategy for socialist renewal in the country.
How the Recent Indo-Pak Conflict Exposed Fault Lines in the Pakistani Left
The Pakistani Left's divergent responses to the recent India-Pakistan conflict reveal deep ideological contradictions and strategic blind spots.
Militant Centrism in Bangladesh after the Uprisings
Despite its ostensibly revolutionary origins, Bangladesh's student-led party finds itself in questionable company in the new political landscape. What does its trajectory tell us about "post ideological" politics?
Roots of the Parachinar Conflict
Hassan Turi explores how land disputes and Afghan wars have created conditions ripe for sectarian violence in Kurram.
Sri Lanka’s Selective Solidarities
Sri Lanka condemns Israel’s military actions in Palestine while maintaining military control and settlement programmes in Tamil territories.
Collateral Lives: Violence as Governance in Balochistan
With brutal torture and disappearances, the Pakistani state continues colonial strategies of collective punishment in Balochistan.
Eqbal Ahmad for a Time of Monsters
On the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies