List of South Asia articles
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A plane full of British citizens and other personnel are evacuated from Kabul by the British Armed Forces on Aug. 21, 2021. America’s Afghan Allies Are Still Desperate for Help
Tens of thousands of Afghans are stuck in immigration limbo—or still hiding under Taliban rule.
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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, framed by the glowing orbs of out-of-focus lights, sits in a chair with his hands his lap and his legs crossed as he speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. India’s Tale of Two Diasporas
Rahul Gandhi is trying—and mostly failing—to replicate Narendra Modi’s rock-star status among Indians abroad.
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A woman wearing a pink and green sari steps down from the front step of a house and onto an unpaid road. Behind her, a young boy stands in the doorway and stretches his arms out toward her. Another woman holds a baby deeper inside the house. India’s Public Health Depends on Private Exploitation
A celebrated health program relies on the labor of mistreated women.
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Afghan men consume drugs on a street in Kabul. The Taliban Have a New Drug of Choice
After cornering the market on heroin, they’ve pivoted to a quicker and more profitable alternative.
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A collection of illustrated flags fly over a textured background that fades from blue to gray. The flags of the G-7 and NATO are the largest and positioned near the top of the image. Beneath them are the smaller flags of individual countries, including China, Russia, India, and others. The Alliances That Matter Now
Multilateralism is at a dead end, but powerful blocs are getting things done.
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An illustration shows two large hands with pinky fingers — and their own tiny hand tips — extended in a small handshake for a story about minilateral alliances. The Nimble New Minilaterals
Small coalitions are a smart alternative to cumbersome multilateralism and formal alliances.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to journalists at the G-20 summit venue in New Delhi on Sept. 10. Did New Delhi’s G-20 Summit Succeed?
India will tout the meeting as a victory, but the bloc remains deeply divided.
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People walk around a model of a globe. Inside This Weekend’s G-20 Summit
And what it might mean for Modi.
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Three men wearing suits and ties sit at a table in front of a wall displaying the logo of the New Delhi G-20 summit, which stylizes the zero in G-20 as the globe. The man sitting in the middle has his mouth open as he speaks into a microphone. Can the G-20 Be a Champion for the Global South?
The group needs to embrace new ideas and more inclusive leadership.
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A man wearing a helmet and standing next to a parked moped holds a cell phone in his hands as he takes a photo of a wall next to the sidewalk. The wall is painted red and illustrated with the portrait of a candidate in the Maldives' upcoming presidential election, along with a hashtag reading "Free President Yameen." Maldives’ Months-Old Party Hopes to Shatter Establishment Grip
Elections might reshape a political landscape marked by corruption and violence.
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An illustration shows the G-7 logo as a steering wheel of a ship with the flagged boats of India, South Korea, and Australia on the horizon. The G-7 Becomes a Power Player
Russia’s war and China’s rise are turning a talking shop into a fledgling alliance of democracies.
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Protesters denounce the arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan outside the Lahore High Court. Imran Khan Is Just the Beginning of Pakistan’s Democratic Woes
The country’s democratic backsliding goes further than the embattled former prime minister—and further back.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow BRICS leaders Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a family photo, along with delegates from six nations invited to join the alliance at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. they stand on a stage and wave and smile. BRICS Expansion Is No Triumph for China
But it is a warning shot for the West to end its strategic slumber in the global south.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raises one hand to gesture as he speaks to the audience at a plenary session at the BRICS summit. He sits in a leather chair beside a microphone in a darkened room. Modi’s ‘Tiger Warrior’ Diplomacy Is Harming India’s Interests
Hindu nationalist attitudes are alienating other nations.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 16, 2022. India Can’t Cut the Cord From China
Amid a stalemate at the border, it’s clear that Xi Jinping still has the upper hand.
