In the opening pages of Devika Rege’s debut novel Quarterlife, one of the protagonists, Naren Agashe, goes to the Lincoln Zoo in Nebraska to buy a coffee. After an older ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar travels to Islamabad for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Canada accuses six Indian diplomats ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party gets mixed results in state elections, political protests and a terrorist attack strike Pakistan over ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan’s opposition sounds off against proposed amendments to the constitution, the U.S. State Department’s top Afghanistan official moves on without ...
The economy was undoubtedly the central issue in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sept. 21—unlike in past votes, when ethnic divides between the Sinhala Buddhist majority and the Tamil minority ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal—When Kumar Paudel turned on the TV in August 2016 and saw former Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista giving an interview from his home, it wasn’t the content of ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The rape and killing of a trainee doctor in Kolkata triggers mass doctors’ protests in India, terrorist attacks kill dozens ...
When Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister 10 years ago, those invited to his swearing-in included leaders of every South Asian country. This reflected his “Neighborhood First” foreign policy, which ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: In the wake of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a potential trip to Ukraine ...
Faced with nationwide antigovernment protests, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday, boarding a military helicopter and fleeing the country. When Hasina, who held office since 2009, initially landed ...