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The Securitization of Punjab’s Political Economy Crisis
After a month-long chase and a nationalist media frenzy, Amritpal Singh Sandhu, a 29-year-old pro-Khalistan preacher and leader of Waris Punjab De, surrendered to police forces on April 23 in the north-western Indian border state of Punjab. 353 Sikh youth…
75 Years After Partition: Reflections from South Asian Voices Readers and Contributors
This month marks 75 years since South Asia witnessed the brutal Partition of the Indian subcontinent as the newly created states of India and Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire. With estimates of up to 20 million forcibly displaced…
Challenges to Subnational Diplomacy: The Tangled Roots of Punjab
Since the partition of Punjab—a consequence of the wider India-Pakistan partition in 1947—the “Land of Five Waters” has been the focal point of a war-inducing water dispute and widespread bloodshed. Conservative estimates put the death toll within Punjab during the…
Can India-Canada Relations Move Beyond Sikh Separatism Concerns?
For the past few months, tens of thousands of farmers primarily from India’s agriculture-dependent northwestern states of Punjab and Haryana have gathered on the outskirts of New Delhi to protest three recently passed farm laws. The protests represent a serious…
ہندوستان کے کسان نئے فارم قوانین کے خلاف احتجاج کیوں کر رہے ہیں؟
نومبر میں بھارتیہ جنتا پارٹی (بی جے پی) کی حکومت کے منظور کردہ تین فارم قوانین کی مخالفت کرنے کے لئے شمالی ہندوستانی ریاستوں کے دسیوں ہزار کسان نئی دہلی کے باہر ڈیرے ڈالے ہوئے ہیں۔ حالیہ دنوں میں یہ…
Hot Takes: Farmers’ Protests Turn Violent in New Delhi
Show of Strength by Indian Farmers After more than two months of camping in the outskirts of Delhi as a mark of protest against the three farm laws—which they believe to be skewed in the favor of large corporations and…