SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN MEDIA - South Asian Women in Media

Ahead of this year’s World Television Day on November 21, Nai Supporting Open Media, a media advocacy group in Afghanistan, reveals that more than 100 television networks have stopped operating in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of…

Shagoufa* is a 10-year-old child who carries adult responsibilities on her small shoulders. She works with her father and two younger brothers in one of the clay kilns. Even her youngest brother, 5-year-old, makes bricks. Though they are…

Sharifa, 8, sits in front of the World Food Programme’s office in Kandahar every day, waiting for the UN agency to distribute food. When it begins, she moves forward, but not to place an official handout in her white sack. Sharifa is there…

Everything was fine until 10 minutes before 9 p.m on Tuesday, December 20. Shabana* and her mother were having tea at home when Ahmad, Shabana’s older brother, returned from prayers at the mosque with a troubled face, obviously trying to…

Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto’s biting words to his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York last week came when he was asked to respond to India’s repeated labelling of Pakistan as “the host of Osama bin…

Interestingly, strategies employed during the Covid pandemic are being replicated. Much like the Cowin app was used to track and monitor Covid vaccinations, the Indian government plans an app to monitor every eligible child to ensure that…

The past year was a good one for investigative journalism in Pakistan. Political stories made a big impact, as the country experienced political crises, including a change in leadership when Prime Minister Imran Khan stepped down in April…

How Truecaller’s Success Depends on India’s Inadequate Privacy Laws Image: Screenshot, The Caravan Truecaller, a smartphone app that provides call-blocking and caller ID services to detect and prevent spam calls, is headquartered in…

This story by the Daily Prothom Alo exposed the grim reality of healthcare in Bangladeshi prisons, finding only four doctors to treat patients across 68 prison facilities, housing more than 83,000 inmates. The Dhaka Central Jail’s only…

While cases of Covid-19 appear to be receding in India, in the aftermath of a widely successful nationwide vaccination campaign, the threat from that virus continues even as devastating effects of two and a half years of the coronavirus…