Priya Chacko, University of Adelaide and Ruchira Talukdar, University of Technology Sydney Last week, India’s capital, New Delhi, experienced its worst communal violence targeting a religious minority in more than…
By Ram Khatry 11 February 2020 A recent report by BBC Nepali makes a strong indication that India played a critical role in the fall of Nepal’s constitutional monarchy because…
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…
19 November 2019 I India is rather surprised at Nepal’s unusually “aggressive tone” on the disputed Kalapani region, website of a popular Hindi-language newspaper reports. Last weekend, Prime Minister KP…
13 November 2019 I Nepal’s repeat hunger-striker Dr Gobinda KC has penned an open letter to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as he ended his 17th hunger strike yesterday. In…
By Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan 19 December 2018 The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on Dec. 15 had limited ambitions and expectations – especially compared…
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…
11 September 2017: Protest against a controversial advertisement campaign by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) further intensified today with nearly two dozen Hindu, Muslim and Sikh community leaders meeting with…
22 August 2017: India and China may be on the brink of a perilous repetition of “1962” amid the Doklam military build-up but expectation in India is that Nepal would…
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…
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 –…
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.…
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…
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.…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 10 July 2017 Lisa Singh, considered to be the first woman of South Asian descent to be elected to the Australian Parliament, has drawn on her…
By Ali Kazimi, York University, Canada Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati…
By Vibhor Saxena, Associate Lecturer in Economics, University of St Andrews 3 July 2017 Among their many privileges, India’s wealthiest households can rely on a consistent supply of electricity and access…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 2 July 2017 Bollywood actor Manisha Koirala has issued a scathing statement reproaching herself, the Government of Nepal, bureaucrats and everyone else responsible for failing to…
By Ashok Sharma, UNSW, Canberra at ADF Academy 29 June 2017 One has 32.9 million Twitter followers; the other has 31 million. When U.S. President Donald Trump met Indian Prime…
By Amit Kaushik, Sydney 28 June 2017 Social networking sites are always awash with “heartfelt” messages on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day. Do people really have those sincere feelings for…
