Asia

A life stolen in the name of national purity

The lynching of a 19-year-old Bengali labourer in Odisha exemplifies a growing climate of communal violence against Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers in India On Christmas Eve in Sambalpur, Odisha, a...

What does support for a slain rebel tell us about India today?

As thousands mourn a slain rebel in Bastar, the report asks whether the state can kill a movement without addressing the conditions that gave it life Narrated by Rachana for Khabar...

How tribal power shapes politics in Iraqi Kurdistan

A deep investigation into the clan networks that bind Kurdistan’s political life In an investigation for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, journalist Lujain Al-Sultani traces how tribal loyalties continue to shape every layer...

A lament for Yemen’s cultural renaissance

How a rich civic culture was built in Yemen in the 1970s and after, and how that legacy has been dismantled since the Houthi takeover, as archives, institutions, and freedoms...

Who moved my job?

As global tech giants shed jobs and AI transforms workflows, India’s IT industry faces a historic reckoning India’s once unshakeable IT industry, the country’s largest private employer and a backbone...

Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes....

To be a father in time of annihilation

Palestinian writer and editor Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about how the war in Gaza has reshaped the concept of fatherhood for him and his children...

Six days in September

In Translator’s photo essay, Indian photojournalist Ishan Tankha reports from Kathmandu in the wake of the Gen Z protests...

Read Between the Lines: The Mask Park incident

A new format in Translator where we commission a journalist or commentator from beyond the Anglosphere to interpret a recent article they have found interesting or important from their local...

Jakarta: The price of belonging in Indonesia’s restless city

When a mother and daughter discover their local cemetery expanding for profit, their grief unearths a grim truth: in restless Jakarta, every breath—and every burial—exacts a heavy toll....

Hanoi: The scent of memory in Vietnam’s river-nested capital

Here, memory isn't seen; it is inhaled. As concrete swallows ancient rivers, one writer maps her vanishing motherland through the thick, fleeting fragrances of a city in constant flux....

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