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The climate of increased repression is having a chilling effect on CSOs (civil society organisations), especially those with a human rights focus.

Contemporary Indian fiction shows a different awareness regarding the politics of spirituality.

In our guest series on South Asia, a look at how the BJP tries to detoxify its Hindu nationalist image with calculated appeals to select Muslim groups.

In India's Sundarbans, climate change is fundamentally transforming the everyday lives of women living in remote chars, or river islands.

New Mandala will be home to a South Asia guest section in the lead up to India's general elections.

A lasting, cleaner India depends on undermining the enduring belief that removal of tainted things is the responsibility of people who are born to the task.