In 1972, the Indian state of Maharashtra was stricken with a drought that decimated crop yields and put 25 million Indians at risk of starvation. After years of plentiful rainfall and experimentation...
Turkey’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the country’s northeast is not motivated by the admirable goal of facilitating a safe return of these refugees to their homes. Rather, Turkey aims to...
Kashmir is no longer a suzerain state. It is now directly under the Indian President’s Union Territory. This isn’t the end, Kashmir has been re-fragmented and the Ladakh region is divided into a...
Beyond the holiday hotspot of Bali, Indonesia is not a place many of us think about much. But it’s an interesting country. Around 270 million people live there, scattered across the 18,000 plus...
The farmers who had been tending to cows and seeing to paddy fields didn’t stand a chance when the peaceful evening on April 3 was shattered by two military attack helicopters. By the time the...
He was just two years old when he chosen to be the leader of a vast nation that is twice the size of France and just a teenager when he saw that nation stolen from its people, forcing him to flee...
Half an hour outside of the small dusty town of Damak in eastern Nepal is a tiny bamboo village. This town is almost thirty years old, yet does not exist on Nepali maps. Its name has a number at the...
I know what you’re thinking — ”Another North Korea summit? But wasn’t the great dealmaker in chief supposed to have solved everything with the last one?” I mean, sure. He was. Kind of. But...
In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, Oriana Skylar Mastro writes that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being financed via loans given to developing countries “without the usual...
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose...
