Express in Sri Lanka | Ethnic fault-lines blur as nation unites in one cry: Go Gota Go
In Colombo, Saturday saw tens of thousands converge at Galle Face, the capital's main ocean front.
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To India from angry street: Thank you, help us, not our government
Stores empty, despair grows: ‘You messed with wrong generation’
Why did the government really initiate J&K talks?
Nirupama Subramanian writes: They could have more to do with BJP’s electoral calculations, than giving signals of assurance.
Counter ‘one-sided’ world media narrative on govt’s pandemic ‘failure’, Jaishankar tells Indian…
International TV channels have run visuals of waiting ambulances and patients outside hospitals, and cremations to underline India's lack of preparedness.
Dealing with Covid-19: Lessons from the experience of Sri Lanka
India’s small southern neighbour has kept its Covid numbers extremely low, and the number of deaths from the disease to only 11. How did Sri Lanka do it? The country’s Director General of Health Services, Dr Anil Jasinghe, explained the…
Explained: Going back 1300 years, the story of Mahabalipuram’s China connection
SAWM India member Nirupama Subramanian wrote about the fascinating history of the place called Mahabalipuram or Mammalapuram and its centuries old connection with Buddhism and China just before the informal summit between India's Prime…
India’s actions over the status of J&K provide an opportunity to revisit four-point plan for…
Nirupama Subramanian, journalist & SAWM member writes why right now India should roll back all its restrictions on Jammu & Kashmir. She writes why India has now given the four point plan for Kashmir another chance while taking the…
J&K and the AfPak hyphen
US-Taliban engagement in Afghanistan has emboldened groups like Jaish and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The jihadist project has also been helped by the political vacuum in the Valley.
In 2008, candidate Barack Obama angered India by suggesting…
Here Sleeps the King: Bahadur Shah Zafar’s grave is a silent witness to turbulent times in Myanmar
It is Friday afternoon at 6, Zi Wa Ka Road, about a kilometre away from Shwedagon Pagoda, Theravada Buddhism’s stunning showpiece in the middle of Yangon, Myanmar. Men, women and children are streaming in and out through the gate, which is…
Reuters reporters sentenced in Myanmar
IN a crowded cafe in the A K K Mall in downtown Yangon, squeezed on a table between strangers, a pro-democracy activist looks around warily and warns that talking about the Rohingya in a public place is not a good idea. He says it would be…