The Khaleda Zia-Sheikh Hasina rivalry led to them being called “the battling Begums”, a term that uses an Urdu honorific for influential women.

The revisionist non-specificity demonstrates zero interest in meeting The Moment, though plenty of other films released this ...

Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic congresswoman from California and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has inhabited the rarefied worlds of both formidable politician and history-making ...

The party system is weakly institutionalised. Nepal struggles with unpredictable electoral competition, widespread public ...

The son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh returned home Thursday after more than 17 years in self-imposed exile as a ...

In the ruins of post-2008 politics, new ideologies have emerged — none more discussed (or meme’d) than “Millennial Socialism” and the curious figure of the “Centrist Dad.” In this video, we explore ...

This is the transcript of an interview conducted for the July episode of “Beyond the Indus,” The Diplomat’s South Asia-focused podcast. Tushar (Interviewer): Today, we’re happy to be joined by Biswas ...

At least 32 political prisoners – mostly Nepali-speaking Bhutanese – who are languishing in his nation’s jails. Bhutan’s king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is in India this week. He went to the ...

Kamala Harris’s decision to support Barack Obama in a 2008 primary race dominated by Hillary Clinton was a political risk. It paid off, and the former president never forgot it. By Katie Rogers Katie ...

Jovita Lee wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008, when Barack Obama was at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. But she remembers that contest very clearly: It was the last one that her grandmother, ...

Is America’s political system facing a meltdown? Dire symptoms of a breakdown are evident. The public is irreparably divided on virtually every issue, large or small and vital or trivial. Neither ...