Asian Dispatch • 18/09/2025

Wealth Inequality is at the Heart of ‘Gen Z’ Revolution Across Asia

The youth in Nepal toppled its government in a span of 48 hours in what can be called one of the world’s fastest regime falls. But there are lessons in rebuilding a nation from youth-led revolutions across Asia.

26/07/2025

Indian Muslim Women Fight Back As Far-Right Disinformation Evolves With Tech

In India, rising Islamophobia and gendered violence closely intersect with a rapid proliferation of Silicon Valley’s Big Tech. India is one of the biggest markets for the world's top social media platforms. At the same time, these platforms have seen an unhindered rise in extremist content and organised hate, often to benefit the ruling elites and authoritarian governments.

The Established • 26/07/2025

Has the #MeToo Movement in India Failed?

India’s #MeToo movement was groundbreaking, but criticisms of lack of intersectionality looms large on efforts like the ongoing wrestlers’ protests

Genderit.org • 26/07/2025

Indian Muslim Women Fight Back As Far-Right Disinformation Evolves With Tech

As Islamophobia and gendered violence thrive in the online spaces, women find safety and resilience in unusual places.

Eater • 02/01/2024

The Fearlessness of Kanji

How a simple rice dish became a Tamil symbol of resistance in Sri Lanka.

VICE • 27/12/2022

We Met an All-Women Flogging Squad in Indonesia

Public floggings are business as usual in Aceh, a uniquely conservative province in a country that has the world’s largest Muslim population. What’s uncommon, though, is flogging delivered by a woman, a contract employee of the Sharia police.

VICE • 25/05/2022

Why These Women Aren’t Joining Sri Lanka’s Massive Anti-Government Protests

The scale of the protest is unprecedented, and its doggedness has managed to shake up the Rajapaksa-led government. But Sri Lanka’s Tamils, the country’s most persecuted community, are visibly absent from the protests.

VICE • 19/11/2021

A Brief and Chaotic History of a Bollywood Sweetheart Who Became a Viral Internet Troll

Kangna Ranaut is not just another sparkly face in Bollywood, one of the world’s biggest film industries and, by far, the largest producer of movies.

VICE • 11/11/2021

Women Brave Online Hate to Sexual Wellness Businesses in India

India’s sexual wellness industry – which looks into the nuances of condom use, its safety, and how it disproportionately impacts women – is not just young; it’s only just been born.

VICE • 30/09/2021

Students Are Finally Returning to School in Bangladesh, but the Girls Are Missing

Around 64 million Bangladeshi children already struggle to access education due to factors like natural calamities and poverty. The pandemic made it worse, bringing another new factor interfering with education: a rise in child marriages.

VICE • 17/09/2021

Her Daughter Was Kidnapped by Traffickers. So She Trafficked Herself.

At least 20,000 Bangladeshi women and children are trafficked across the mostly-porous and unfenced border with India every year. Most never make it back.

VICE • 09/07/2020

India’s COVID-19 Lockdown Is Making It Easier For Girls To Be Forced Into Child Marriage

“What we witness right now is only the tip of the iceberg. There might be 10 times more incidents that we may not be aware of because children’s mobility and communication are restricted. They will not be able to confide in their teachers or friends, which used to happen before.”

VICE • 25/06/2020

International Fashion Houses Are Leaving Millions of Asians Jobless. The Workers Are Now Protesting

Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector is estimated to employ some 4.2 million people, of which 60 percent are women. It also indirectly supports 40 million Bangladeshis, which is about 25 percent of the country’s population.

VICE • 11/12/2019

How Dutee Chand Challenges Norms in Sports and Society

Before she became the poster girl for queer pride, Dutee Chand was the first female athlete to challenge deep-seated patriarchy in sports.

26/02/2017

Artists of the Floating World: Breaking stereotypes

With its deep engangement with the history, politics and culture of its land, a new crop of women artists from Bangladesh is breaking stereotypes and making the international art world sit up and take note.

29/05/2016

Afghani Women Refugees Seek Home Through Food in New Delhi

A group of Afghan women refugees in Delhi has started a takeaway service that has become hugely popular through word of mouth.

15/11/2015

A way in the dark: Meet Afghanistan’s first female professional photographer

Afghanistan’s first female professional photographer, Farzana Wahidy, on learning to become her own person in a troubled country, shooting under perilous conditions and why she focuses exclusively on women.

13/09/2015

How a Pakistani Tumblr Started a Conversation about Young Women in Dhabas

The dhabas are an inimitable space that never yields, especially to a lone woman visitor.

13/09/2015

Tumblr from Pakistan starts a conversation about young women in dhabas

The dhabas are an inimitable space that never yields, especially to a lone woman visitor.