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South Asia Chat podcast series will feature conversations with analysts, academics and thought leaders on topical issues impacting South Asia.
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This podcast goes over some of the delicious cuisines from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan Cover art photo provided by Cel Lisboa on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@cellisboa
Areas you may consider visiting in South Asia Cover art photo provided by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@mili_vigerova
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Travel + Leisure India & South Asia
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Travel + Leisure India & South Asia
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Plug your headphones on, close your eyes and dream escape to faraway lands. Presenting #TNLAudioStories by Travel + Leisure India.
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APES Case Study 131 - South Asia’s Massive Brown Cloud
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Breaking news, analysis and opinion from the SCMP's Asia edition.
Interviews with Scholars of South Asia about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies
On Trailblazers, we dive deep into the journeys of trailblazing South Asians. To date, Simi Shah, our founder and host, has welcomed ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, 49ers President Paraag Marathe, and other world-renowned South Asian trailblazers. Learn more at southasiantrailblazers.com.
A solid hour of Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi music, contemporary and classic tracks, blended to give listeners with and without South Asian languages for a mother tongue a compelling listening experience. Local news and a relevant, local events calendar rounds out the program.
The South Asian Mind Podcast is meant to be a safe space for ALL South Asian women through open discussions and culturally appropriate talks that will nurture their mental health. The podcast will include conversations with experienced therapists and psychologists who have a deep understanding of the South Asian culture. Through these conversations we will provide tips and general advice related to relationships, family and individual identity to people who identify as South Asian women.
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Lost Voices: An Untold Story of the South Asian Diaspora
Four podcast episodes focusing on ideas around archiving practices used by South Asians to collect, preserve and reconstruct family and community histories. Join host Alisha Sawhney on a journalistic inquiry into the South Asian diaspora, featuring interviews and stories from a range of brown female voices.
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Masala Podcast: The South Asian feminist podcast
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Masala Podcast: The South Asian feminist podcast
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This award-winning feminist podcast is all about cultural taboos. Everything from sex, sexuality, periods, menopause, porn, mental health, shame, sexual harassment & more. Considered one of the best feminist podcasts exploring intersectional feminism from a South Asian lens, Masala Podcast features some of the world's most inspiring South Asian women. The inspiring feminist Masala Podcast is the winner of multiple British Podcast Awards 2020, 2021 & 2022. Masala Podcast has been featured in ...
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African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
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African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
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In this series students invite the public along with them on an inquiry to introduce and contest the frameworks of major themes in South Asian and African(a) philosophies which for all their depth and breadth and world-transforming thought have largely been excluded or undervalued in our philosophy curricula. Join us for insights into different conceptions of reality and ways of thinking about community - to map how theories of language and logic affect our daily experience and ethical choic ...
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Asia - South China Morning Post
Some commentators foresee a new golden age for India, but the country is on a dangerous path built on a disingenuous numbers game. There is no silver bullet that will fix anaemic job creation, a small and uncompetitive manufacturing sector and government schemes that fatten corporate profits.Autor: Ashoka Mody
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is an economic initiative launched by United States President Joe Biden in May 2022. Comprising 14 member countries, the framework is considered to have formidable potential to further regional economic integration. In this episode, Ms Ramita Iyer, Research Analyst, ISAS, is in conversation …
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New Books in South Asian Studies
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2022) explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how m…
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Asia - South China Morning Post
Deaths occur in detention facilities and some people were summarily executed after being caught trying to cross the border, the South’s Unification Ministry said in a report.Autor: Reuters
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Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian branches of a transnational yoga institution and about yoga practitioners and spiritual tourists who visualize peace through yoga. Practitioners' aspirations for peace situate them at the heart of an inte…
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Hong Kong’s finance chief Paul Chan highlights city’s advantages like low taxes, ‘perfect’ liveability, and government-backed ecosystem for start-ups.Autor: Bhavan Jaipragas
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Artist Dang Ai Viet, 75, rides her motorbike around the country to paint portraits of women who lost two or more loved ones in the Vietnam war.Autor: Reuters
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership offers China an opportunity to capitalise on diversification trends and tap Southeast Asia’s growing middle class, economists and business executives say.Autor: Mia Nulimaimaiti
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South Korea’s US$60 billion swing in China trade due to ‘shrinking tech advantage’ as deficit emerges
South Korea recorded a trade deficit of US$5.1 billion with China in January and February, which was the highest among all its trading partners, with an analyst pointing to its shrinking “technological comparative advantage”.Autor: Seong Hyeon Choi
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Rising US-China tension makes climate cooperation between the world’s two largest emitters unlikely. But strategic climate rivalry, with the promise of global influence, more competitive industries and greater national wealth, may prove effective.Autor: Brian P. Klein
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has vowed to press on with predecessor Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on illegal drugs but says he will focus on rehabilitation.Autor: Associated Press
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Southeast Asian start-ups need to be careful when expanding, and not rush to copy WeChat’s success in China, investors say
Tech companies should ‘earn the right’ to expand into new business categories after creating a solid core business, entrepreneurs and investors say at Post conference.Autor: Iris Deng
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Hong Kong’s finance chief Paul Chan says strong collaboration with Asean – of which Singapore is a part – is a key plank of city’s economic policy.Autor: Bhavan Jaipragas
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China and the 10-nation Asean bloc are looking to enhance agricultural ties, including in technology and training, with Hainan positioned as a possible ‘gateway’ for more trade, diplomats say.Autor: Mia Nulimaimaiti
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Taylor C. Sherman, "Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths (Princeton UP, 2022) brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues th…
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Asia - South China Morning Post
The proposal to set up a trilateral framework was put forward by Tokyo, an aide to the Philippine president’s security adviser said, to boost deterrence against Beijing and prepare for a potential crisis over Taiwan.Autor: Kyodo
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Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, or NLD, was one of 40 parties ordered dissolved in an official announcement by the election commission published on Wednesday.Autor: Associated Press
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Singapore’s Minister for Home Affairs and Law says he is ‘bemused’ by suggestions that Hong Kong is in terminal decline.Autor: Dewey Sim,Kimberly Lim
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TikTok bans: ‘not possible’ for Japan to outlaw China-linked app – except ‘quietly’ on official devices
Analysts say Tokyo is unlikely to risk angering Beijing by pulling TikTok from app stores, but it will more strictly enforce a pre-existing ban covering official devices – just don’t expect any public statements about it.Autor: Julian Ryall
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General Manoj Pande said ties between the two Asian neighbours ‘do stand influenced by the great power rivalry currently playing out between China and the US’.Autor: Bloomberg
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Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad threatens to sue PM Anwar Ibrahim for libel, reigniting political feud
Legal threat comes after PM Anwar Ibrahim made a thinly veiled attack on Mahathir Mohamad, potentially reigniting a decades-old feud.Autor: Joseph Sipalan
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China Conference: Hong Kong’s Paul Chan, Singapore’s Shanmugam, Malaysia’s Tengku Zafrul Aziz headline SCMP’s first overseas forum since 2019
Two-day conference will feature keynote speeches by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam and Malaysia’s Minister for International Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz.Autor: Bhavan Jaipragas
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North Korea ready to use new, smaller nuclear warheads ‘anytime and anywhere’, threatens Kim Jong-un
Images released by state media on Tuesday showing Kim Jong-un among his arsenal of warheads are ‘worrisome’, experts say, as they could indicate ‘something more powerful in a smaller space’.Autor: Bloomberg
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South Asian Trailblazers
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Pooja Bavishi, Founder & CEO of Malai Icecream
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Meet Pooja Bavishi, Founder and CEO of Malai, a trailblazer who is sure to pique your interest and... your sweet tooth. Malai is an artisanal ice cream company, with flavors inspired by the nostalgic, aromatic spices and ingredients of South Asian culture. Pooja had always wanted to be in the business of delivering happiness, AKA desserts, and in 2…
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Singapore ‘will lose its attractiveness’ to foreign firms if rising costs continue, European businesses warn
Residential rent increases of more than 40 per cent and mounting operational costs mean seven in 10 businesses are considering relocating personnel out of the city state, a survey by the European Chamber of Commerce found.Autor: TODAY
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Boao Forum: Singapore, Malaysia to showcase ‘proactive’ China diplomacy – but don’t expect any ‘fireworks’
Singapore will be keen to show its continued geopolitically neutral stance, while Malaysia is expected to prioritise economic issues, push for more investment.Autor: Maria Siow,Joseph Sipalan
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Criticised in Australia and coldly received in Southeast Asia, the Aukus submarine pact is raising fears of a regional arms race, Taiwan risks and a new cold war.Autor: Richard Heydarian
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Thousands of the mostly Rohingya Muslims risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.Autor: Agence France-Presse
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Several Japanese brands have seen a surge in sales in South Korea, following a shift in political ties. Relations sank to new lows in 2019 after Tokyo placed export controls on Seoul’s semiconductor sector, leading to a boycott of Japanese goods.Autor: Julian Ryall
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The Japanese national in his 50s was taken into custody in Beijing earlier this month for violating domestic law. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the man was suspected of espionage.Autor: Associated Press
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‘Unimaginably high’ food inflation grips Pakistan at Ramadan as debt woes mount, Imran Khan stirs the pot
Cooking gas and wheat flour have more than doubled in price over the past year, as onions shot up an eye-watering 228 per cent.Autor: Tom Hussain
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Last year, rents for private housing in the city state shot up at their fastest rate in 15 years, leading one expat to warn that ‘anyone who can leave is leaving Singapore’.Autor: TODAY
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The launches on Monday were the North’s seventh missile event this month as it steps up its military demonstrations in a tit-for-tat response to US-South Korea military exercises.Autor: Associated Press
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Unlike India, South Korea is in lockstep with the US on Russian sanctions, Xinjiang and even Taiwan, and talk is turning to Quad membership. As the US-India gulf grows, the danger is that China might seek a thaw with India – and a weakening of the US alliance.Autor: Mohamed Zeeshan
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Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)
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Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally. In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, powe…
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Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Today I talked to Ching Keng about his book Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2022). Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist traditions. Paramartha (499-569) is traditionally credited with amalgamating these philosophies by translating one of the mo…
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Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and schol…
The small Indian state of Goa has witnessed a veritable land rush over many decades, with shifting state governments, leading politicians, and private investors moving in to acquire large tracts of land for a wide range of projects. But what are the drivers of land grabbing in Goa? And what are the consequences for local communities and the environ…
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Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)
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Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins (Routledge, 2022) explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting 'magical' and 'shamanic' practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediae…
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Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women …
