by Rhea Yadav | Dec 17, 2025 | University of Pittsburgh
Nepal’s Madhesi community lives in the Tarai plains along the southern border, a region culturally intertwined with northern India. Madhesis speak Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, and Hindi, maintain dense cross-border kinship networks, and make up nearly one-third of...
by Sean McGinley | May 8, 2024 | Ursinus College
On April 19, 2024, citizens of India, the world’s largest democracy, will start to participate in the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha is the lower of the two houses that make up India’s parliamentary system. Whoever wins a majority of the Lok Sabha’s 543 seats...
by Brendan Green | Apr 23, 2022 | Boston University
Faced with the threat of a no-confidence vote in parliament that he was likely to lose, Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an attempt to block his ouster, sent shockwaves through Pakistan by dissolving the National Assembly on April 3rd, 2022. In a televised speech, Khan...
by Margherita Marras | Apr 22, 2022 | Boston University
Ever since his election victory in 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapska has been propelling the island nation of Sri Lanka into a repressive and violent authoritarian regime. In truth, Rajapaska’s dynasty began well before his presidency. In 2005, he served as the...
by Sarah Szilagy | Mar 8, 2022 | Ohio State University
In May 2021, an anti-corruption journalist for the largest newspaper in Bangladesh spent a month investigating government mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis before she sat down to have a meeting with the Health Ministry’s secretary of health services. Just weeks...
