Geography Archives: Asia

Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

The first GDP estimate for India was made by Dadabhai Naoroji for the year 1867-68, though his estimate was extremely rough.

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the U.S. government.

The revolutionary period left more than a founding image. It created institutions, social expectations, and forms of political work that continue to move within the society built upon them.

The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.

In 2022, Sri Lanka defaulted on its sovereign debt for the first time in its post-independence history.

The system where women are systematically wrapped into sex work due to existing infrastructure and poverty, where U.S. military presence creates the demand, and where Western tourism perpetuates supply–this is femicide.

Fascism-forward nationalism, held patriotic by Hindutva, portends the imaginary of India as a Hindu Nation. In its pursuit, a “deeper state” has been established whose malevolent operations polarise and religionise the body politic.

The collapse of a Himalayan glacier wreaked death and destruction as it cascaded down the valley. Feyzi Ismail explains why this is a result of climate crisis denial.

Caste reality has still not ended, injustice against women has still not ended, and the problems of farmers and agricultural laborers remain unresolved—in such circumstances, the ideological foundation Dr. Gail laid out, and the path of action she demonstrated, continue to guide scholars and activists of the new generation.

Missile units on southern islands, troops moving on civilian ferries, command bunkers dug underground: a grassroots movement across Japan is trying to halt the drift back towards imperial confrontation. Remembering the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a pro-Trump U.S. citizen and ally of drug traffickers.

It was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, later to be renamed Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that was enacted by the UPA-I government under Left pressure (since the government depended on Left support).

IN June 2026, The Nature Index, one of the most well-regarded barometers of high-quality research, issued the annual Research Leaders rankings.

The Indo-U.S. Trade Agreement as it had been negotiated earlier, before its basis was knocked out by a court ruling on Trump tariffs, had been an “unequal treaty”, allowing the U.S. to charge much higher tariffs on Indian exports than the other way round, and stipulating amounts of American goods that India had to buy, but not the other way around.

Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.

The current yen crisis could only be resolved by a sharp rise in Japanese interest rates to encourage investors to hold Japanese financial assets. 

Japanese workers get the bill first: a weaker currency, costlier food and fuel, and wages that buy less. They had no say in the war being waged in their name.

There can be no doubt whatsoever that these weapons and ammunition were actually used by Israel in Gaza; in fact missile fragments labelled “Made in India” were found in a UN-run school in Nuseirat in Gaza sheltering displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli raid on it that killed 33 persons.

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.