South Asia @ LSE

LSE engagement with South Asia

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Latest posts

Burma (Myanmar): Exploring the frontiers of Southeast Asia’s last frontier economy

February 24th, 2014

Long Read: Why has Sri Lanka’s Transitional Justice process failed to deliver?

February 6th, 2019

Bhutan: Modern technologies in a traditional society

February 5th, 2019

Dispatch: Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 | South Asia: Walls and Bridges

February 1st, 2019

Gender

“I will not get angry”: What new age spiritual practices in urban India are teaching women

January 14th, 2019

A legal failing: Why child marriage persists in India

January 10th, 2019

Apps and the gender gap: Why ‘mobile money’ leaves poor women behind

January 4th, 2019

Interviews

“Inspired by Marx, Lenin and Mao, the Naxalites are the world’s longest-running armed revolutionary struggle” – Alpa Shah

January 24th, 2019

“The government isn’t taking any steps to make journalism in India safer” – Rana Ayyub

January 15th, 2019

“The Kabuliwala represents a dilemma between the state and migratory history of the world” – Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

October 29th, 2018

Development

How a Sri Lankan port can help integrate the Indian Ocean economy

January 25th, 2019

Towards transparency: How institutionalising social audits can increase efficiency of rural welfare programmes in India

January 16th, 2019

Apps and the gender gap: Why ‘mobile money’ leaves poor women behind

January 4th, 2019

Security and Foreign Policy

Security and Foreign Policy

The dilemmas of open regionalism: What is Sri Lanka’s place in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation?

January 28th, 2019

Examining the roles of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Maldives in the rivalry for Indian Ocean supremacy

August 27th, 2018

Can Sri Lanka capitalise out of its strategic location in the Indian Ocean region?

August 6th, 2018

Book Reviews

Book Review: Financializing Poverty: Labour and Risk in Indian Microfinance by Sohini Kar

January 30th, 2019

Book Review | Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army and the Wars Within by Shuja Nawaz

January 23rd, 2019

Book Review | Madan Mohan Malaviya and the Indian Freedom Movement

December 4th, 2018

Events

Rahul Gandhi town hall: feature length special

August 31st, 2018

Broken Ladder: Anirudh Krishna workshop report

July 27th, 2018

“People like me feel like the very idea of India is under challenge” – Yogendra Yadav

June 29th, 2018

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