The Nation-State is Not Our Friend: On Celebrating the Repeal of Section 377
Uncritically celebrating the repeal of Section 377 (India’s anti-sodomy law) as a milestone of decolonization obscures the complicity and exclusion inherent to the nation-state.
On Whose Side is the Government? The St. James Town Fire and the Housing Crisis
St. James Town is a largely South Asian and working-class neighbourhood in Toronto. What does the recent fire in two of its high-rises tell us about the city’s housing crisis?
Left Politics in Bastar
Noted Indian academic and human rights activist Bela Bhatia surveys the political situation in India’s tribal region of Bastar.
In Search of the Political: Social Life in Pakistan's Sufi Shrines
South Asia’s sufi shrines are typically thought to have a quality of other-worldliness that is antithetical to the worldly concerns of the left. But can we rethink the shrine’s political possibilities?
The Necessity of Communism
Vijay Prashad surveys the conditions, facts and politics of India before suggesting ways the Left can move forward.
Mao-Lana Bhashani: Maoism and the Unmaking of Pakistan
Today, socialism and Islam are often viewed as incompatible. Does the career of Maulana Bhashani, “the Red Maulana” of Bangladesh, offer a corrective to this view?
Revisiting the Legacy of Sajjad Zaheer, Founder of the All-India Progressive Writers' Association
On his 45th death anniversary, a reflection on the life of Sajjad Zaheer.
The Environment, the State and the Left in South Asia
Environmental protection doesn’t seem to be a priority for South Asian states. But more troublingly, neither is it for the region’s Left. How to move beyond this impasse?
Marginalized by Conservation: The Billion Tree Tsunami Project
In 2014, Imran Khan’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa launched its ambitious plan for environmental conservation. Though widely praised, the plan is actually intensifying existing social inequalities.