🎙️Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet have been alienated by India, says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
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May 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🎙️Kashmiri Muslims have been the major victims of the gun from both sides – the militants and security forces – and yet have been alienated by India, says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
In light of the #Maldives government launching a new code of ethics for journalists in the country, check out a recent #StateofSouthasia podcast episode in which Ahmed Naish of Maldives Independent breaks down the country’s new media regulation law.
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https://ow.ly/y0i350XM7gz
Ahmed Naish on Maldives’s controversial new media regulation law: State of Southasia #34
On 18 September, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu ratified a new media law aimed at streamlining media regulation and seeking to curb disinformation. The law a
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December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In light of the #Maldives government launching a new code of ethics for journalists in the country, check out a recent #StateofSouthasia podcast episode in which Ahmed Naish of Maldives Independent breaks down the country’s new media regulation law.
https://ow.ly/y0i350XM7gz
https://ow.ly/y0i350XM7gz
🎙️ "The culture of intimidation is very high. A lot of journalists very regularly get threats, death threats, it's online threats as well." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri
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June 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
🎙️ "The culture of intimidation is very high. A lot of journalists very regularly get threats, death threats, it's online threats as well." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia
@shafiur and @nayantaran discuss how Bangladesh has been seen as a compassionate host of the Rohingya, but has kept the refugees on the edges of society and transformed them into pawns in negotiations for aid.
www.himalmag.com/podcast/shaf...
@shafiur and @nayantaran discuss how Bangladesh has been seen as a compassionate host of the Rohingya, but has kept the refugees on the edges of society and transformed them into pawns in negotiations for aid.
www.himalmag.com/podcast/shaf...
Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya’s endless troubles in Bangladesh: State of Southasia #20
The Rohingya are facing a new crisis. Cuts to foreign aid by the United States government under Donald Trump have caused huge upsets in the humanitarian sector
www.himalmag.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia
@shafiur and @nayantaran discuss how Bangladesh has been seen as a compassionate host of the Rohingya, but has kept the refugees on the edges of society and transformed them into pawns in negotiations for aid.
www.himalmag.com/podcast/shaf...
@shafiur and @nayantaran discuss how Bangladesh has been seen as a compassionate host of the Rohingya, but has kept the refugees on the edges of society and transformed them into pawns in negotiations for aid.
www.himalmag.com/podcast/shaf...
🎙️#StateofSouthasia on the end of #USAID with @jayatighosh.bsky.social
"If any of us thought that the rest of the donor community would step up to fill the gap, we have to rethink... we're actually seeing them withdrawing as well."
"If any of us thought that the rest of the donor community would step up to fill the gap, we have to rethink... we're actually seeing them withdrawing as well."
Jayati Ghosh on the USAID shocker and the politics of foreign aid: State of Southasia #19
In January this year, soon after taking over as president of the United States for the second time, Donald Trump announced a suspension of all prgrammes of the
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March 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
🎙️#StateofSouthasia on the end of #USAID with @jayatighosh.bsky.social
"If any of us thought that the rest of the donor community would step up to fill the gap, we have to rethink... we're actually seeing them withdrawing as well."
"If any of us thought that the rest of the donor community would step up to fill the gap, we have to rethink... we're actually seeing them withdrawing as well."
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April 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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🎙️ On the #StateofSouthasia podcast: A conversation with Daanish Mustafa on Southasia's destructive floods, the politics of water, and news ways of thinking about water management.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎙️ On the #StateofSouthasia podcast: A conversation with Daanish Mustafa on Southasia's destructive floods, the politics of water, and news ways of thinking about water management.
Full episode: buff.ly/loHCoaM
Full episode: buff.ly/loHCoaM
🎙️"There's not much distinction between a businessman, a parliamentarian and a criminal in many cases." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri
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June 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎙️"There's not much distinction between a businessman, a parliamentarian and a criminal in many cases." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
🎙️#StateofSouthasia
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya’s endless troubles in Bangladesh: State of Southasia #20
The Rohingya are facing a new crisis. Cuts to foreign aid by the United States government under Donald Trump have caused huge upsets in the humanitarian sector
www.himalmag.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎙️#StateofSouthasia
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
🎙️"For the Lhotshampa, this announcement of the Geluphu Mindfulness City is incredibly painful because it is just yet another erosion of the identity of the existence within Bhutan," @maxmorch.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
Maximillian Morch on the disquiet behind Bhutan’s Geluphu Mindfulness City: State of Southasia #29
Bhutan’s bold new urban venture, the Geluphu Mindfulness City, is being pitched as a landmark in values-based development. Envisioned as an economic hub rooted
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August 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🎙️"For the Lhotshampa, this announcement of the Geluphu Mindfulness City is incredibly painful because it is just yet another erosion of the identity of the existence within Bhutan," @maxmorch.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia
🎙️ #Bangladesh “In the last nine months, young women are actively pursuing careers in politics, which makes visible… at the center of attention for the patriarchal society,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
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July 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🎙️ #Bangladesh “In the last nine months, young women are actively pursuing careers in politics, which makes visible… at the center of attention for the patriarchal society,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
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🎙️ JJ Robinson (@journojim) on how Maldives’ political culture under Mohamed Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs. #StateofSouthasia #podcast
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JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri
www.himalmag.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🎙️ JJ Robinson (@journojim) on how Maldives’ political culture under Mohamed Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs. #StateofSouthasia #podcast
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🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia: "I would not dismiss the real discontent that a lot of Nepalis feel against the current dispensation, the way that Nepal is being ruled by the three major political parties," says Pranaya Rana.
Pranaya Rana on Nepal’s royalist resurgence: State of Southasia #21
In early March this year, a massive gathering of some 10,000 royalist supporters gathered to greet Nepal's former king, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, as he returne
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April 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia: "I would not dismiss the real discontent that a lot of Nepalis feel against the current dispensation, the way that Nepal is being ruled by the three major political parties," says Pranaya Rana.
🎙️ "The ways in which neoliberal capital is trying to access land and minerals is having a very detrimental consequence for India's Adivasi people, its tribal people," says shahalpa.bsky.social #StateOfSouthasia
Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22
The Bhima Koragaon case has come to be seen as emblematic of the gravest problems with India's democracy. Between June 2018 and October 2020, 16 people were arr
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May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎙️ "The ways in which neoliberal capital is trying to access land and minerals is having a very detrimental consequence for India's Adivasi people, its tribal people," says shahalpa.bsky.social #StateOfSouthasia
🎙️#Bangladesh Women’s Commission Report: “This is a revolutionary moment when Bangladeshi women projected their highest dreams, and these highest dreams have been included in the commission report.,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
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🎙️#Bangladesh Women’s Commission Report: “This is a revolutionary moment when Bangladeshi women projected their highest dreams, and these highest dreams have been included in the commission report.,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
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🎙️ What is driving outmigration from #Bhutan? "Most people say that the income available is not high enough. There is a lack of opportunities. There's rampant nepotism within the public sector," says @maxmorch.bsky.social #Geluphu #mindfulness #StateofSouthasia
Maximillian Morch on the disquiet behind Bhutan’s Geluphu Mindfulness City: State of Southasia #29
Bhutan’s bold new urban venture, the Geluphu Mindfulness City, is being pitched as a landmark in values-based development. Envisioned as an economic hub rooted
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August 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
🎙️ What is driving outmigration from #Bhutan? "Most people say that the income available is not high enough. There is a lack of opportunities. There's rampant nepotism within the public sector," says @maxmorch.bsky.social #Geluphu #mindfulness #StateofSouthasia
🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya’s endless troubles in Bangladesh: State of Southasia #20
The Rohingya are facing a new crisis. Cuts to foreign aid by the United States government under Donald Trump have caused huge upsets in the humanitarian sector
www.himalmag.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎙️New podcast #StateofSouthasia
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says Shafiur Rahman
🎙️"The Indian state's crackdown on the Kashmiris in the aftermath of Pahalgam has been disproportionate... it appealed to the majoritarian Indian sentiments that became overwhelmingly anti-Kashmiri," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia:
Anuradha Bhasin on Kashmir’s repeated calamities through the India-Pakistan conflict: State of Southasia #23
Since 22 April, when militants carried out a deadly attack in Pahalgam district killing 26 civilians – most of them Hindu tourists – Kashmir has faced one of it
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May 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🎙️"The Indian state's crackdown on the Kashmiris in the aftermath of Pahalgam has been disproportionate... it appealed to the majoritarian Indian sentiments that became overwhelmingly anti-Kashmiri," says @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social #StateofSouthasia:
🎙️ "The US is actually trying to bully other countries and I think it is time for these [Southasian] countries to come together economically," says Umesh Moramudali on the #Trump #tariffs #StateofSouthasia #lka #Bangladesh
Umesh Moramudali on Southasia and the Trump tariffs: State of Southasia #28
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, had kept the global economy on tenterhooks for the last four months. On 2 April, he announced a set of import
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July 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🎙️ "The US is actually trying to bully other countries and I think it is time for these [Southasian] countries to come together economically," says Umesh Moramudali on the #Trump #tariffs #StateofSouthasia #lka #Bangladesh
🎙️ "The protests [are] really pointing at impunity and this culture of political nepotism that protects those who are in power or protected by those in power." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri
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June 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🎙️ "The protests [are] really pointing at impunity and this culture of political nepotism that protects those who are in power or protected by those in power." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
From the #StateofSouthasia podcast, development economist @jayatighosh.bsky.social points out that #USAID, like a lot of foreign aid, has often been offered with strings attached, with donor countries using it to impose conditions or dictate policy to recipient countries.
March 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
From the #StateofSouthasia podcast, development economist @jayatighosh.bsky.social points out that #USAID, like a lot of foreign aid, has often been offered with strings attached, with donor countries using it to impose conditions or dictate policy to recipient countries.
🎙️ "The situation inside Bhutan is really quite dire. Civic repression is not something you picture when you think of #Bhutan. This 'mindfulness' term is able to deflect a lot of these criticisms," says @max_morch #Geluphu #StateofSouthasia
www.himalmag.com/podcast/maxi...
www.himalmag.com/podcast/maxi...
Maximillian Morch on the disquiet behind Bhutan’s Geluphu Mindfulness City: State of Southasia #29
Bhutan’s bold new urban venture, the Geluphu Mindfulness City, is being pitched as a landmark in values-based development. Envisioned as an economic hub rooted
www.himalmag.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🎙️ "The situation inside Bhutan is really quite dire. Civic repression is not something you picture when you think of #Bhutan. This 'mindfulness' term is able to deflect a lot of these criticisms," says @max_morch #Geluphu #StateofSouthasia
www.himalmag.com/podcast/maxi...
www.himalmag.com/podcast/maxi...
🎙️ #StateofSouthasia: Sharda Ugra reflects on the growth in performance and professionalism in #women’s #cricket, while also pointing to the uneven marketing, sponsorship, and administrative support that continue to hold the game back. #CWC25
Sharda Ugra on the rise (and the challenges) of women’ cricket: State of Southasia #35
As the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup reaches its final week, veteran sports journalist Sharda Ugra examines the progress that women’s cricket in Southasia has made in recent years – especially since…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎙️ #StateofSouthasia: Sharda Ugra reflects on the growth in performance and professionalism in #women’s #cricket, while also pointing to the uneven marketing, sponsorship, and administrative support that continue to hold the game back. #CWC25
🎙️ #Bangladesh “Women were at the forefront of the uprising. However, after that, we have not seen many women in constructive talks and leadership. Women have kind of vanished into thin air as if,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
Samina Luthfa on the battles of women in a new Bangladesh: State of Southasia #27
In October 2024, two months after the monsoon revolution in Bangladesh toppled Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and Awami League government, four gender experts
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July 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🎙️ #Bangladesh “Women were at the forefront of the uprising. However, after that, we have not seen many women in constructive talks and leadership. Women have kind of vanished into thin air as if,” says Samina Luthfa #StateofSouthasia
🎙️ "The protests [are] really pointing at impunity and this culture of political nepotism that protects those who are in power or protected by those in power." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast
JJ Robinson on how Mohamed Muizzu’s Maldives is “a free-for-all kleptocracy”
In mid-April, young people took to the streets of Malé, the capital of the Maldives to protest the country’s culture of political impunity and nepotism. The tri
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June 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🎙️ "The protests [are] really pointing at impunity and this culture of political nepotism that protects those who are in power or protected by those in power." JJ Robinson on the #Maldives under Mohamed Muizzu #StateofSouthasia #podcast