South Asia

The Uprising of Indian Youth: A Photo Series

On 20th July 2026, thousands gathered in Delhi for the Sanad Chalo March, from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament. Led by the satirical Cockroach...

Sold as brides, lost at sea: The trafficking of stateless Rohingya girls

Mahmudah, a 16-year-old Rohingya girl from Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, hugged her parents goodbye in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar and climbed into a trafficker’s vehicle packed...

   The Cockroach Republic

On a rain-soaked road beside Jantar Mantar, an eighteenth-century astronomical observatory built by the Mughal ruler Maharaja Jai Singh II in the heart of...

Beyond the passport: The legal ambiguity of Indian citizenship

This post is also part of Global Voices’ July 2026 Spotlight series, “Statelessness.” This series offers insight into the issue of statelessness and how...

What’s On Your Plate Is Political: BJP’s rampant vegetarianisation of public life 

In India, what you eat says a lot about who you are, apparently – your “purity” and your social standing. From a specially curated...

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