Across the world’s major democracies, right wing ethno-nationalism is on the rise. Reactionary politics have assumed different forms in...

In January 2015, the government of New Delhi decided to run a unique 15-day experiment. Under Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam...

Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Kapur has represented India in Tanzania, France, Nepal, Cambodia, and Chile since beginning his career in the...

On November 21, 2012, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national and the only surviving gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was...

On September 17th, the latent tension between South Asian heavyweights India and Pakistan escalated into overt hostility after an attack...

Pakistan has long struggled with deep civil strife. Since widespread ethnic cleansing after India’s partitioning in the 1940s, a myriad...

March 11, 2016 marked the beginning of the three-day World Culture Festival (WCF) held in India’s capital, New Delhi, to celebrate “The...

In mid-February, residents of Delhi were met with an unpleasant surprise: seemingly out of nowhere, an unprecedented water crisis forced...

Upon its inception, Facebook instantly took America by storm — sweeping across college campuses, captivating the youth demographic, and,...

Earlier this month, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and leader of the student...

India has been rocked by the recent arrest of two students on colonial-era sedition charges for their involvement in protests against the...

Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...

Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...

Today the Jarawa tribe, one of five indigenous groups native to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, has only 400 surviving members....

Earlier this month, International Women’s Day created a platform for activism and protests around the world. In Beijing, however, hopes...

They attacked at dawn, descending on a police patrol in the remote Sukma District of Chattisgarh, a state in central India. Emerging from...

Jyoti Singh is a name that, over the past few years, has become a symbol in India of the need for societal transformation. The world...

In 2013, 400 million Indian citizens lived on less than $1.15 per day, while half did not have access to adequate sanitation. Despite...

Photo by Ramesh Lalwani. Many ideas and images appear in our collective consciousness when we consider the relics of British colonialism:...

In July, after several months of discussion, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have finally...