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Kintsugi is the fine Japanese art of repairing ― and strengthening ― broken, fragile ceramic with finely powdered and lacquered gold. The reference to its imperfect beauty comes quite early on in the latest Shahrukh Khan blockbuster, …

The South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), a regional association of women journalists, expresses shock and anguish at the murder of journalist Sashikant Warishe of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. Warishe, who wrote for the Marathi daily Mahanagri,…

After spending years in self-imposed exile, former Pakistan president and army chief Pervez Musharraf died in Dubai on February 5. Here’s a look at his chequered legacy.

South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), in a recent message on Twitter, have called upon authorities in Bangladesh to halt any further investigation against Prothom Alo's special correspondent Rozina Islam. In a tweet posted on Thursday, SAWM…

South Asia appears to be the exception and the outlier to the most logical principle now — regional cooperation

Former PM Imran Khan’s claim earlier this month that his policy for settling Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters and families in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was torpedoed by the provinces’ refusal to accept his…

Fifteen years ago, the Pakistani security establishment sought to make a distinction between “good” and “bad” Taliban. The good Taliban were the Afghan Taliban and other groups that served Pakistan’s interests in the region, including the…

From Kenya to India and the Philippines, more frequent and intense extreme weather events have led to escalating threats against women and girls

National consensus needed on geopolitics, federalism, inclusion and infrastructure-led growth

Newsroom in exile exposes the Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan