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India-Bangladesh Relations – Conditional to a Sheikh Hasina Government?
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina traveled to India for an official visit from September 5th-8th, where she inked several important agreements with her Indian counterpart. The India-Bangladesh bilateral relationship has immensely improved in the last decade, seemingly signaling the success…
Bengal’s Multiple Partitions
The 1947 partition of India and Pakistan has been characterized as a “division of hearts,” as the prioritization of communal tensions over shared cultural bonds gave way to the violent formation of two independent nation-states. Punjab and Bengal – provinces…
Balancing Climate Change and Geopolitics in Bangladesh
This monsoon season, Bangladesh experienced its worst flooding since 2004. Over seven million people in the north-eastern region of Sylhet have been affected, with floods damaging 185,000 acres of paddy fields and 741,000 acres of other crops, including maize, jute,…
Feminist Foreign Policy and Anti-Authoritarianism in South Asia
“I see nothing grand or impossible about our expressing our readiness for universal interdependence rather than independence…Nor have I slightest difficulty in agreeing that in these days of rapid intercommunication and growing consciousness of oneness of all mankind, we must…
Looking Back at 2021: SAV Editors’ Picks
At South Asian Voices, we pride ourselves on publishing diverse perspectives from across the subcontinent on important and often contentious issues related to the politics, security, and economics of South Asia. Below are the SAV editorial team’s top picks of 2021: Sunaina Danziger…
Bangladesh’s 2021 Year in Review: Celebrating 50 Years of Development Through Pandemic Resilience
2021 was supposed to be a year of festivities for Bangladesh, as the country celebrates its 50 years of independence. Instead, it had to contend with the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Bangladesh has exemplified 50 years of admirable…