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Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20

Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste

Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule

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Militarism is a Destructive Public Health Response to the Pandemic
India, Sri Lanka, Essay Sonia Joseph & Nangeli 5/12/20 India, Sri Lanka, Essay Sonia Joseph & Nangeli 5/12/20

Militarism is a Destructive Public Health Response to the Pandemic

Across South Asia, regimes have responded to the pandemic with even more militarism. This must end.

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Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20 Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20

Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan

Peasant guerrillas from the Mukti Bahini used their intimate ecological knowledge of Bangladesh’s waterways to liberate the country.

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Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?
Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20 Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20

Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?

Lack of testing and PPE has left healthcare workers at the mercy of COVID-19, while the government moves only to criminalize their protests.

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COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20

COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore

Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.

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Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20 Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20

Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan

Responding to Aliza Amin, Prateek Joshi questions the Musharraf-Mysticism alliance and defends Coke Studio.

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The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20 Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20

The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan

Hassan Turi explores the contradiction between agricultural labour shortages and youth unemployment in rural Pakistan.

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“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia
India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20 India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20

“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia

Colonial-era sedition laws used to criminalize dissent to protect imperial sovereignty. Now that “The People are sovereign” in independent India and Pakistan, why are they still being charged with sedition?

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Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!
Pakistan, Essay Ibrahim Buriro 1/9/20 Pakistan, Essay Ibrahim Buriro 1/9/20

Zinda Hain Tulba! / The Students Live!

An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.

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Selling Sufism: Qawwali and Coke Studio in Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Aliza Amin 12/23/19 Pakistan, Essay Aliza Amin 12/23/19

Selling Sufism: Qawwali and Coke Studio in Pakistan

Is Pakistan’s Coke Studio promoting Sufism or trading in Sufism Inc.?

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Dispatches from the Valley: Kashmiris mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday with Satyagraha
Kashmir, India, Essay Nandini Sundar & Nitya Ramakrishnan 10/17/19 Kashmir, India, Essay Nandini Sundar & Nitya Ramakrishnan 10/17/19

Dispatches from the Valley: Kashmiris mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday with Satyagraha

Two months into the aggravated occupation of Kashmir, how are Kashmiris faring? Sociologist Nandini Sundar and lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan report on their recent visit to the valley.

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The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organizing in Post-War Britain
Diaspora, India, Issue 3, Essay Arsalan S 8/27/19 Diaspora, India, Issue 3, Essay Arsalan S 8/27/19

The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organizing in Post-War Britain

Militant South Asians refused to be “model minorities” and instead united with racialized communities to confront racism and capitalism in post-War Britain

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