The dominant narrative may feature aggression and calls to ‘act’ but conflict benefits only certain vested interests. Here we highlight some of the many calls for peace emanating from pediatricians, a...

A television trilogy on addressing mob violence had gained huge popularity in neighbouring India. Now, worsening ties have disrupted that cross-border resonance.

A television trilogy on addressing mob violence had gained huge popularity in neighbouring India. Now, worsening ties have disrupted that cross-border resonance.

A television trilogy on addressing mob violence had gained huge popularity in neighbouring India. Now, worsening ties have disrupted that cross-border resonance.

Tribute to a beloved community leader who passed away recently, a co-founder of Pakistan’s first nationwide student movement, a pioneering psychiatrist and mental health practitioner, founder member o...

It has been ten years since Sabeen Mahmud was killed in Karachi. I can imagine her outrage at the dastardly attack in Pahalgam. Remembering her, and Shayan “Poppy” Afzal Khan, lost to cancer, and pion...

Intro Southasia’s diverse performance in the 2025 World Happiness Report highlights varying levels of well-being across the region that contribute to the region's mixed results.

A global impact survey on TB, developed and published by the TB Community Coordination Hub revealed that patients worldwide have been abandoned without access to medicines. Hundreds of employees from ...

Journalists around the world are increasingly targeted for doing their jobs - and Southasia is no exception. The issue doesn’t just affect journalists. Who wants to visit a country where information c...

The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklove...

With the ‘fifth season’ – smog in northern India and Pakistan – catalysing a major health crisis that is reducing life expectancy in cities like Delhi and Lahore, cross-border conversations on air pollution and cooperation for possible solutions might not be avoidable for too long.

Bangladeshi leader Dr Yunus' call for "a summit of SAARC leaders even if it is only for a photo session because that will carry a strong message" underscores the critical need to make Southasia an effectively interconnected region. If India refuses to travel to Pakistan, for a SAARC summit, other alternatives must be thought out, argues a peace studies scholar

An awards ceremony in India being held today represents a significant moment for Southasian solidarity, with several members of a regional peace organisation being awarded or participating in other ways. However, it also underscores the challenges faced by activists in the region, including visa restrictions between India and Pakistan. By Pragyan Srivastava / Sapan News Members of an organisation devoted to peace, dialogue and regionalism in Southasia will feature prominently at an awards ceremony being held in New Delhi on Monday afternoon, hosted by the prestigious Women in Security, Conflict Management, and Peace organisation.

An 85-year old teacher and researcher from Pakistan reflects on her journeys to China for two conferences. The one in Macau enabled her to meet a long-lost cousin from Mumbai in Hong Kong. The one in Beijing catalysed a research project currently being replicated by researchers in six countries, presented at the SPELT 40th annual international conference in Karachi recently

At a Southasian panel discussion, participants from Bangladesh analysed the country’s future with some cautious optimism and hoped for progress beyond the ongoing struggles for minorities, women, a…

When an Indian is in the room, and it isn’t ‘bad news’ – and why can’t the relationship between India and Pakistan be modelled on the relationship between Mani Shankar…

Released in 2007, 'Leg Before Wicket' is a gripping feature-length documentary featuring the stories of Giants cricket team members who become so close-knit that "national identities don't matter anymore".

Journalist and writer Sajid Hussain was living in exile in Sweden when he disappeared in 2020; later, his body was found in a river.

A poignant photo exhibition features the work of the late photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed covered Afghanistan and Pakistan at the height of the war between the Taliban and the USA.

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