In India, the ordeal of female sex workers (FSWs), doesn’t simply end with stigmatisation and discrimination within society. They face a significant health challenge as well, which is unintended pregn...

(ANALYSIS) Singapore’s national soccer team made it to the second round of qualifiers, but fell short of making it to the FIFA World Cup again this year. Nonetheless, the spirit of the game still very...

In India, transgender sex workers comprise 15% of the sex workers’ populace, yet they remain an understudied and underserved group in the commercial sex sector.  This group is most exploited and haras...

A recent independent commission report revealed that people from India’s Daman and Diu region, who hold Portuguese passports, were ‘important actors’ in the 2022 outbreaks of violence in Leicester. So...

Abstract. While populist radical right (PRR) parties have long been characterised as ‘men’s parties’ due to the over-representation of men within their ran

(ANALYSIS) A delegation of 12 Buddhist monks recently walked across Sri Lanka along with their adopted dog Aloka. People of all faiths in Sri Lanka, who have witnessed riots and bloodbaths in the...

(ANALYSIS) A delegation of 12 Buddhist monks recently walked across Sri Lanka along with their adopted dog Aloka. People of all faiths in Sri Lanka, who have witnessed riots and bloodbaths in the...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has called for sanctions on India’s Hindutva Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, for its flagrant violations of religious freedom. Sonia Sarkar...

India sits precariously in this US-Israel-led war against its old regional partner Iran. This, says Sonia Sarkar, is because of Hindu supremacist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proximity to Israel's l...

The residents of Jeju Island remember what it is like to resist imperialism and outside interests. Groups that were formed to protest the U.S. naval base construction have now shifted their focus to&n...

Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

In the past decade, a transnational alliance between two European populist radical right parties -- Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) and France’s Rassemblement National (RN), which is also ...

Followers of the ‘Hindutva’ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women – including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve t...

Followers of the ‘Hindutva’ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women – including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve t...

(ANALYSIS) The Maldives, the small South Asian island nation, recently passed a new law to tighten the noose of the media. But this new law also indirectly strengthens the state’s restriction on relig...

Four years after it cut all ties with Afghanistan, the Indian government’s strategy towards the Taliban regime is undergoing a transformation. Sonia Sarkar argues that India’s deteriorating relationsh...

Four years after it cut all ties with Afghanistan, the Indian government’s strategy towards the Taliban regime is undergoing a transformation. Sonia Sarkar argues that India’s deteriorating relationsh...

(ANALYSIS) In Laos, Christian burials are barred from cemeteries, churches have to find improvised worship spaces, and Christians are often pressured to engage in activities that go against their reli...

Five children with thalassaemia have tested HIV positive after blood transfusion at a government hospital in the state of Jharkhand, east India. The state government has suspended three officials and...

The Serbian Orthodox Church, which represents 85 percent of this Baltic country’s population, has been largely urged the student protestors to “go bak to their classes” and not protest.

(ANALYSIS) As Bangladesh grapples with political instability for a year since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country following mass student-led protests in August...

US conservatives build networks to unite nationalists against liberal democracy

The Taliban’s lightning advance on Kabul caught not only the US off guard, but ordinary Afghans too Sonia Sarkar was on the ground as the mood went from normal to frantic in a matter of days. On Th…

In a democracy, authorities must crack down on extremism regardless of their ideology. Is it unreasonable to expect this from those who claim to be leading the ‘mother of democracy’?

In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men.  Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues t...

In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men.  Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues t...

Anti-monarchists argue that India, as one of the largest democracies in the world, should help Nepal to strengthen its democratic institutions and not conspire to threaten their existence

(ANALYSIS) The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethn...