Bangladesh Aug 5, 2024 uprising and Jantar Mantar student protests

Two Years After Bangladesh's Youth Revolt: South Asia's Student Upsurge not a Passing Wave

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal are not producing a series of unconnected national episodes. They are producing a young, educated, and increasingly connected generation that is redefining what citizens expect from the state

The Grammar of Indian Democracy may be Changing: India’s Gen Z Demands Accountability Between Election Cycles

India had increasingly become an exception. The expectation that ministers should bear responsibility for institutional failure had faded almost to the point of disappearance especially since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014. 

Nepal’s Unemployment Crisis: Needed Transformational Leadership to Utilize Available Resources

Nepal's greatest shortage is not simply money or infrastructure; it is leaders who can use them well. Without the right leadership, resources remain locked in inefficiency, corruption, and bureaucratic gridlock.

Proxy Village Governance: The Pradhan Pati Problem in India's Democracy

It has been formally recognised in the Report of the Advisory Committee on Women Pradhans, Transforming Women’s Representation and Role in Panchayati Raj Institutions: Efforts to Eliminate Proxy Participation, which recorded that elected women representatives are often “represented by their husbands or male relatives” and recommended the imposition of stringent and exemplary penalties to curb such practices.

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Children had quarrel with neighbors; Christian parents in Pakistan spend eight years in prison for blasphemy

Having spent eight years in prison for a crime they never committed, for this Pakistani Christian couple justice has finally was served, but after a long, grueling wait, and at a heavy cost