India Woos Afghanistan as Influence Wanes
Can New Delhi protect its strategic interests and keep Kabul on its side in an unfriendly and volatile neighbourhood?
AUNOHITA MOJUMDAR
Making a Play for the Indian Sub-Con, Post-bin Laden
The death of the world’s most wanted terrorist has started a new act in geopolitics in the India-Pakistan neighbourhood, with the U.S. and China jostling for a starring role.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
India – Need-to-Know Local Lingo
English may be widely spoken here, but a conversation is still going to make no sense, if you don't know some of these terms.
The asia! team
Renaissance Village
The bucolic village of Patangarh in Central India is unremarkable at first glance. But there, in almost every family, lives an artist highly skilled in a traditional style of tribal art threatened by modernisation.
DAWN TAN
I Am Not a Feminist
Men are more ambitious while women tend to focus more on love and relationships. Do you agree?
SUV PRADHAN
India: 21 Tips on Surviving Life in Modern India
For returning Indians, a must-read to ward off culture shock. To everyone else, this will help you scratch the surface of this country that charms and frustrates anyone who dares venture forth. 
AMREEKANDESI
From Libya to Bangladesh, One Crisis to Another?
They fled the bloodshed and political turmoil. But for Bangladeshis who have come home, there is a huge challenge ahead of them.
SALEEM SAMAD
Let’s Spit to That!
Chewing betel leaf and areca nut spells romance for some
VIVIENNE KHOO
There’s No Miracle Water Here
Bulu Imam is a man on an unlikely mission: to save the tribal way of life in India. And he's going to do it with art.
DAWN TAN
India Needs Australia’s Uranium
Despite the Fukushima disaster, India still believes nuclear energy is the way to go – and it wants Australia to be part of its plans.
RUPAKJYOTI BORAH
India: On Charting Invisible Bodies
Decades after the end of colonisation, it remains embedded in the culture of the colonised. Case in point: the English in India.
JADED16
Too Much of a Good Thing
Deformity and illness beset poor villagers who have no choice but to live on fluoride-contaminated water.
SUMAIRA JAJJA
Why Marriage Is a Bad Idea
A Bangalore-based novelist makes a case for singlehood.
NIKHIL KUMAR
Turmeric to the Rescue
The price of turmeric is rising as its health benefits become better known around the world.
VIVIENNE KHOO
Obama Got Osama: The View from Pakistan
When the world's most famous terrorist is located and killed in his comfortable compound in your country, lots of questions emerge. Like, who did it, really?
DAN-CHYI CHUA