South Asia

The people of Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir remain in the streets after almost two weeks of blackout, siege and state violence, writes Umair Khurshid.

Pranaya Rana on the long road that turned a rapper into Nepal's prime minister.

The INDIA bloc needs a new impetus rooted in democratic resistance, unity, humility and renewed political purpose, argues Dipankar Bhattacharya.

For 9 million people in West Bengal, the electoral voting machines will not open writes Sandip Nayak. Their silence will be counted as absence. And that manufactured, deliberate and meticulously engineered absence will be called democracy.

Farooq Sulehria — Pakistan may seek to play the role of peacemaker globally but regionally it acts as a warmonger.

We, the undersigned Communist, workers’, and left-wing parties of South Asia, issue this collective call in firm and unwavering solidarity with the government and people of Cuba.

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation — For defenders of democracy and the Constitution, the Assembly elections must be taken up as an anti-fascist platform of political mobilisation.

Sarah Nafisa Shahid — Hardline Islamists gain ground in historic election following the 2024 July Uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.

Farooq Tariq — The attack by US and Israeli imperialism on Iran has overshadowed the recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Farooq Sulehria argues that the current confrontation reflects a deeper crisis of the regional order — one whose costs will be borne overwhelmingly by working people on both sides of the border.

Sushovan Dhar — Measured purely by participation, the strike formed part of a familiar repertoire of mass industrial protest in contemporary India. Politically, however, its significance lies elsewhere.

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Before the commercial explosion of the 1990s and the hyper-nationalist staging of the present, cricket fields often functioned as spaces of progressive expression.