Why is the Elephant indifferent?
By Bikram Timilsina, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University 12 December 2019 Nepal’s former foreign minister Dr Bhekh Bahadur Thapa has drawn an interesting analogy around Indo-Nepal border disputes. In a…
Opinion
India’s plan to identify ‘illegal immigrants’ could get some Muslims declared ‘foreign’
By Haimanti Roy, University of Dayton 9 December 2019 The Indian government will soon ask its 870 million voting-age citizens for documentation that they are legal citizens with…
Male victims of domestic violence and the barriers to speak out and seek help
By Dr Ghana Shyam Chapagain 30 November 2019 Domestic violence (DV) is a rising form of human rights abuse that affects health and overall wellbeing of the individuals involved. In…
Male victims of domestic violence and the barriers to speak out and seek help
By Dr Ghana Shyam Chapagain 29 November 2019 Domestic violence (DV) is a rising form of human rights abuse that affects health and overall wellbeing of the individuals involved. In…
Why the raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, The University of Queensland 6 June 2019 The Australian Federal Police has this week conducted two high-profile raids on journalists who have exposed government secrets and their…
Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledges
By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, University of Southampton 24 May 2019 India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united…
India’s elections will be the largest in world history
By Erin Watson-Lynn, University of Western Australia 11 April 2019 The world’s largest democratic election is set to take place in India. Voting will take place in seven phases from…
Nepal’s Venezuelan love: Prachanda’s wrong rhetoric at the wrong time
By Dr Bharat Raj Paudel 3 February 2019 Nepal has found itself in international limelight since earlier this week after a co-chairman of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)…
First shot’s been fired, but Rabi Lamichhane ain’t bleeding
By Ram Khatry 5 January 2018 The first shot has been fired to kill Rabi Lamichhane’s unique journalism. It was long expected but as the fearsome stalwart of Nepalese media…
Explainer: why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
By Azadeh Dastyari, Monash University 12 December 2018 Australia was one of 176 countries to vote in favour of the Global Compact on Refugees (refugee compact) in mid-November this year.…
Ahed and Malala: Why we revere some girl activists and ignore others
By Sarah Kastner, York University, Canada 5 December 2018 After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl…
Will an ambitious Chinese-built rail line through the Himalayas lead to a debt trap for Nepal?
By Jagannath Adhikari, Curtin University China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has ambitions to reshape the global economy by connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa through…
PM Deuba’s Delhi trip: gainful game for Nepal?
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 29 August 2017 Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has returned home after a 5-day long state visit to India. The coalition partners in Kathmandu –…
Trump is wrong: his ‘new’ Afghanistan policy looks like more of the same
By Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds Donald Trump surprised international audiences with his announcement that he plans to expand the US military intervention in Afghanistan, without setting an end date.…
Minority histories of the Indian national flag
By Sadan Jha, Centre for Social Studies 17 August 2017 This week, India celebrates 70 years of independence. The tricolour flag, perhaps the most tangible and potent symbol of freedom…
How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
By Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway 10 August 2017 “Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 –…
Facebook is fighting social media identity theft in India, but it’s a global problem
By Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia 2 August 2017 Every Facebook account comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen? Facebook has some ideas.…
Why offshore processing of refugees bound for Europe is such a bad idea
By Daria Davitti, University of Nottingham 28 July 2017 On the same day that a top UN official bravely called on Australia to end the harmful practice of processing asylum…
China-India border dispute a grim sign for stability in Asia
By Nick Bisley, La Trobe University July 27, 2017 Conflict was almost baked into Asia’s post-1945 international order. Taiwan’s contested status following the communist victory in China’s civil…
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
By Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute 13 July 2017 This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network.…
