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.

In the second part of our collaborative discussion with Oats for Breakfast, we chat about some of the protest movements currently active in India and Pakistan, repression in Kashmir, and class struggle in South Asia.

Oats for Breakfast, in collaboration with Jamhoor, hosts a discussion about South Asia. We chat about Hindutva and the closing off of space for dissent in India and Pakistan.

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

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

An interview with Pritam Singh on the demand for Khalistan.

An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the origins, aims, and trajectories of PTM.

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?

An energetic national student movement re-emerges in Pakistan.

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

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.

On immigration, desi families, and being queer.