SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

Perhaps one of the biggest learnings from the 72-day standoff at Doklam is the need for India to reach out more to the people of Bhutan. Just over a year ago in Tashkent, President Xi Jinping had turned down Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

In central Sri Lanka, energy-efficient stoves are helping small businesses to flourish and encourage low carbon development. Rows of bottled savoury snacks, known as murukku, are ready for collection at TAW Bandara’s modest home in…

“If you could visit any place in Pakistan, where would you go?” asks Amardeep Singh whenever he gives a talk to introduce his recently published travelogue Lost Heritage – The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan. The question, aimed primarily at…

Early in the morning, when most adolescents his age are in deep slumber, 16-year-old Roshan Singh starts pedalling to a nearby field. A tee and shorts and a pair of worn out shoes is all that he carries to warm up and begin his ‘untrained’…

Abject poverty has disturbed her childhood true, but never deterred her spirit to excel. She chose to soar in academics and she did. Something, she as a 16-year-old, understands can get back dignity to her family and give them a decent…

Sivagami, first Kaadar to pursue post-graduation, wants to help her tribe progress Twenty-five-year-old Sivagami has many dreams. One of them is to help her community, which has for long been living in isolation and neglect. Ms. Sivagami…

For children of the Kaadar community in the Western Ghats, getting an education means leaving home at the age of six to stay at residential schools. Deep in the jungles of the Western Ghats near Valparai, over a 100 km from Coimbatore, is…