Le-Huu calls the Red EP “a bright exemplar of world fusion music… -- a folk duo blending South Asian and American traditions” layering “original Urdu, Hindi, and English lyrics over classical Indian ragas and beats borrowed from rock, reggae, and American roots music.”
In the end, the need to remember our war dead transcends borders, alliances, and eras. These disturbed graves — British, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in origin — call us to a solemn duty: To honour all who fell with dignity. Forgetting them, or allowing their memory to be selectively bulldozed, diminishes us all.
Together, the team conducts collaborative research and policy development initiatives across four South Asian countries - Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Their work aims to strengthen national preparedness, improve crisis response systems, and support governments in building resilient, technology-enabled public safety infrastructure. Together, these researchers represent a growing national capability in applying Artificial Intelligence to real-world challenges.
When South Asians organise across faith, class, and national origin lines, standing with Black, Latino, white working-class, and other allies, they help fracture the divide-and-rule strategies that sustain far-right growth. This is the deeper truth of “the people united will never be defeated.” Elites and far-right forces rely on division: Pitting workers against immigrants, Hindu against Muslim, citizens against refugees.
Epics are having epochal impact on Indians and Pakistanis as they live through the coronavirus pandemic. As Indians locked inside their homes stayed glued to their television sets, watching Ramayan and Mahabharat serials that are part of their cultural ethos, across the border, a Turkish historical series, Ertugrul, has captured not just popular imagination, but also acquired political, cultural and identity overtones
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the relevant authorities to formulate a national program on the field of cricket in order to develop the sport at school level
Forty-one years ago novelist, short story writer, playwright and lyricist MK Binodini Devi, a member of the erstwhile royal family of Manipur, won a Sahitya Akademi Award for "Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi", a poignant love story of her aunt Sanatombi and Lt. Col. Henry St. P. Maxwell, the British Political Agent in the subjugated Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur
It is to these artistes' credit that in spite of such mental turmoil, an unknown inner positivity makes them face the situation with determination and courage. But question is for how long, writes Shovana Narayan for South Asia Monitor
Every weekday at 8 am, teachers of Tarphel Primary School in Trashiyangtse in Bhutan set off into the villages carrying learning materials seeking their students
Nepal’s Kanchan Amatya has earned The Legacy Award, one of the highest civilian honours given to a young leader by the British Royal Family in the United Kingdom for her social action and humanitarian work
In a unique initiative, a Canadian and a Spanish student, both of Chinese origin, on Saturday cycled 100 km in Singapore to raise funds for migrants 4,000 km away in Mumbai's Govandi suburb, an associate said
The Vedic Shanti Paath derived from the Yajurveda has been recited at the White House during the National Day of Prayer by a Hindu priest from a Swaminarayan temple
The Interpol has seized 971 ancient relics belonging to Afghanistan
Studying online could become cheaper for students in Bhutan with the government approving an additional 60 percent data on the existing package. This means a student would receive 60 percent extra data for the same price
Pakistani television personality Aamir Liaquat Husain has apologised for making extremely insensitive remarks about the deaths of iconic Bollywood stars Sridevi and Irrfan Khan
Rishi Kapoor faced the camera longer than Irrfan Khan’s total age and yet the two supremely talented actors, who died within a day of each other in Mumbai, and that too due to cancer, defined the essential character of Hindi cinema, popularly known globally as Bollywood
One of Bollywood's finest actors is no more. He was just 54. The film industry on Wednesday took to social media to express sorrow as well as disbelief, and to express condolence to the bereaved family and to pray for his soul
Bollywood’s versatile actor Irrfan Khan, who won over millions of fans in India and South Asia and among the South Asian diaspora globally with his roles in numerous international and Indian films, is no more
April 29 is World Dance Day. Every year, dancers celebrate this occasion with great enthusiasm and fervour. Although this time everyone is confined to their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic
