South Asia
Dipankar Bhattacharya — In many ways the November election outcomes should be seen as an early reality check after the denting of the BJP's majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Ammar Ali Jan — The accumulated contradictions of the Pakistani state have thus mutated into a full-blown crisis.
Sri Lanka: Reading the General Election 2024 (plus: The Sri Lankan left’s long road to power)
Pasan Jayasinghe & Amali Wedagedara — The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. How can the NPP’s victory and mandate be understood, and what will the next five years look like?
RSS enters its centenary: A saga of uninterrupted fascist assault on modern India
Dipankar Bhattacharya — Hindu consolidation remains the central theme of the RSS and to achieve this goal it simultaneously plays the twin cards of victimhood as well as pride and power.
Comrade President? Change and continuity in Sri Lanka
Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons.
Dipankar Bhattacharya — The merger of the Marxist Coordination Committee into the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has been greatly welcomed by the broad left ranks across the country.
Pakistan: As the old is dying, a new struggles to be born
Ammar Ali Jan — Decades of economic, political and social neglect have now metastasised into a scenario that sees Pakistan seemingly heading down a blind alley.
Progressive and left voices in Bangladesh give their views on the recent mass upsurge and assessment and expectations of the interim administration in place.
Ammar Ali Jan (People’s Rights Party, HKP): ‘You have to embed yourself in the movement of history’
Ammar Ali Jan discusses the challenges of building a new workers’ party in Pakistan — and the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party's recent victories for Lahore’s most vulnerable workers.
An interview with Farooq Tariq on the political situation in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
India's RSS and the global far-right: Expanding links, growing ambition
Dipankar Bhattacharya — As the RSS readies for its centenary in 2025, we will see more attempts to sell itself as a global role model and India as the ideological destination for 'National Conservatives' from around the world.
The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has triggered a massive people's assertion in West Bengal powered by a remarkable women’s initiative called 'Reclaim the Night'.