Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official state visit in June 2023 saw a surge of thousands of South Asians flooding the nation’s capital. Some rallied in strong support of the controversial leader; others seized his visit as an opportunity to protest ...
KOLKATA, India — The election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 marked the death of religious freedom in India. In his eight years in power, Modi has been widely successful in his promotion ...
“The Monk and the Gun,” a 2023 Bhutanese film written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, was theatrically released in the United States on Feb. 9, 2024. The film tells two concurrent stories. The first is of Bhutan’s mock elections ...
Nusantara, meaning “archipelago” in Javanese, is what Indonesia announced its new capital will be called — a fitting name, as Indonesia is one of the largest archipelagos in the Indo-Pacific region. As a result, Indonesia not only faces ethnic, religious ...
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) becomes more economically prosperous and prominent on the world stage, questions surrounding its superpower alignment have started to surface more frequently in an increasingly tense and bipolar international order. However, neutrality and ...
For the first time in human history, the world population has surpassed eight billion. On Nov 15, 2022, the UN released a report detailing the demographic changes that will occur as a result of this. In it, it predicts that ...
A suppressed media, a voiceless minority and a dictator-in-chief. India, the largest “democracy” and now the most populated country in the world, is backsliding further towards authoritarianism. The BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, aired in the United Kingdom on ...
Background As per the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NFT) of 1970, there are five designated nuclear weapon states — the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China — who also serve as the five permanent ...
Mango sticky rice, a Thai dish consisting of glutinous rice soaked in coconut milk with slices of mango on top, became viral online earlier this year thanks to Thailand born rapper Danupa “Milli” Kanateerakul. Milli became the first Thai rapper ...
Following an extreme heat wave, heavy rains and glacier melting, over a third of Pakistan is underwater. Houses and roads have been destroyed, with an estimated overall 10 billion USD worth of damages. Moreover, over 33 million civilians have been ...