By juxtaposing communist-led land-to-the-tiller struggles in 1970s Pakistan with current movements against real-estatization, we see the prospects and limits of redistributive land politics.

Rethinking hegemony and resistance in land conflicts in the post-civil war Sri Lankan North.

Progressives widely lauded the Indian farmers’ protests for incorporating women and Dalits. But a closer look points to the endurance of casteism and patriarchy in the movement.

In post-war Sri Lanka, women navigate class, caste, gender, and religious discrimination to access land and livelihoods.

A leading organizer reflects on the strategic successes of the movement.

The long history of imperial intervention in Afghanistan — from the British to NATO — is responsible for the country’s suffering.

Recovering the memory of a forgotten pioneer of the communist movement in undivided India.

A look at the racist beliefs about Bengalis peddled privately and publicly by Pakistani military officials in the lead up to 1971.

A travelogue along the Karakoram Highway exploring the relationship of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan territory with China’s Xinjiang province, home to the persecuted Uyghurs.

A narrative reflection on the breakdown of a marriage, and an awakening to a political identity, against the backdrop of India’s straining sociopolitical fabric.

The cyclone in 1970, though not always recognized, was instrumental in the independence of Bangladesh.

The 2013 Shahbagh movement offers a critical context for reading the contested histories, paradoxes, and possibilities of left-wing nationalism in Bangladesh's semi-centennial year.