You are here: Homepage Tag South Asia Articles Zehra Khan has founded the Home Based Women Workers Federation in 2009 Photo: Natalia Bronny Trade unions | Pakistan Invisible women workers in Pakistan Women working from home are an important economic factor in Pakistan, but they are often isolated and deprived of their rights. The Home Based Women Workers Federation campaigns for change By Hannah El-Hitami 04/30/2024 Manuel teaches dancing to Siddi children in Mainalli. He is a farmer and gives free workshops for children from the village in his spare time so that they can pass on old cultural traditions to the next generation Photo: Saurabh Narang Indigenous culture | India Keeping an African identity in contemporary India The Siddi ethnic group migrated to India from East Africa centuries ago. Since then, their communities have cultivated their very own culture By Saurabh Narang 11/20/2023 The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023 Tuned cars are racing around the so-called “Fountain of Death” at the Janmashtami festival in the Indian city of Rajkot Photo: Siddarth Kaneria Day trip | India The Maut Ka Kuwa in Rajkot Our author reports on a dangerous and high-adrenalin stunt show that has gripped him since childhood. The “Well of Death”, where cars race around a near-vertical track, is part of an annual religious festival By Siddharth Kaneria 01/09/2023 A farmer harvests opium plant sap in a poppy field in the Darra-i-Nur district of Nangarhar province (2020) Photo: Noorulla Shirzada / AFP / Getty Images Drugs war | Afghanistan Opium for the masses Profits from the opium industry account for over half of Afghanistan's economic output. An overview of the drug threatening to tear Afghanistan apart 10/01/2022 Singer Aryana Sayeed Photo: Getty Images Playlist | Afghanistan „I have brought your prophets into the world“ Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs. By Farhot 10/01/2022 The many faces of the Earth: Photograph taken by astronaut Pedro Duque during the "Cervantes" mission from the ISS, 2004. Photo: Pedro Duque / Soyuz TMA-3 / Cervantes Mission / ESA Books | Climate change The start of a new era Climate change presents us with unprecedented challenges. The Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for a change of perspective and in the process rediscovers human history By John Vidal 07/01/2022 People climbing the mud volcano Photo: Bashir Osman Day trip | Pakistan The Chandragup in Belutschistan The mud volcano in Pakistan’s Hingol National Park is considered sacred by many Hindus By Bashir Osman 07/01/2022 Short fiction | Life underground In the stomach of the city A man from the countryside starts a new life in the tunnels beneath an Indian metropolis. A story. By Shumona Sinha 01/07/2022 A gym was set up for protesters at the site of a gas station Photo: Vaibhav Raghunandan Farmers’ protest | India The siege of Delhi For a year, thousands of farmers converged at the gates of the Indian capital, demonstrating against the government’s agricultural reform. Their tenacity finally paid off, with the surprise announcement that three controversial farm laws would be withdrawn By Vaibhav Raghunandan 10/01/2021 Khejrib trees like the one in this picture are sacred to the Bishnoi Photo: Maximilian Mann Day trip | India The Thar Desert in Rajasthan About the deeply rooted tradition of nature conservation among the Bishnoi in the middle of the Indian desert By Maximilian Mann 04/01/2021
Zehra Khan has founded the Home Based Women Workers Federation in 2009 Photo: Natalia Bronny Trade unions | Pakistan Invisible women workers in Pakistan Women working from home are an important economic factor in Pakistan, but they are often isolated and deprived of their rights. The Home Based Women Workers Federation campaigns for change By Hannah El-Hitami 04/30/2024
Manuel teaches dancing to Siddi children in Mainalli. He is a farmer and gives free workshops for children from the village in his spare time so that they can pass on old cultural traditions to the next generation Photo: Saurabh Narang Indigenous culture | India Keeping an African identity in contemporary India The Siddi ethnic group migrated to India from East Africa centuries ago. Since then, their communities have cultivated their very own culture By Saurabh Narang 11/20/2023
The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023
Tuned cars are racing around the so-called “Fountain of Death” at the Janmashtami festival in the Indian city of Rajkot Photo: Siddarth Kaneria Day trip | India The Maut Ka Kuwa in Rajkot Our author reports on a dangerous and high-adrenalin stunt show that has gripped him since childhood. The “Well of Death”, where cars race around a near-vertical track, is part of an annual religious festival By Siddharth Kaneria 01/09/2023
A farmer harvests opium plant sap in a poppy field in the Darra-i-Nur district of Nangarhar province (2020) Photo: Noorulla Shirzada / AFP / Getty Images Drugs war | Afghanistan Opium for the masses Profits from the opium industry account for over half of Afghanistan's economic output. An overview of the drug threatening to tear Afghanistan apart 10/01/2022
Singer Aryana Sayeed Photo: Getty Images Playlist | Afghanistan „I have brought your prophets into the world“ Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs. By Farhot 10/01/2022
The many faces of the Earth: Photograph taken by astronaut Pedro Duque during the "Cervantes" mission from the ISS, 2004. Photo: Pedro Duque / Soyuz TMA-3 / Cervantes Mission / ESA Books | Climate change The start of a new era Climate change presents us with unprecedented challenges. The Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for a change of perspective and in the process rediscovers human history By John Vidal 07/01/2022
People climbing the mud volcano Photo: Bashir Osman Day trip | Pakistan The Chandragup in Belutschistan The mud volcano in Pakistan’s Hingol National Park is considered sacred by many Hindus By Bashir Osman 07/01/2022
Short fiction | Life underground In the stomach of the city A man from the countryside starts a new life in the tunnels beneath an Indian metropolis. A story. By Shumona Sinha 01/07/2022
A gym was set up for protesters at the site of a gas station Photo: Vaibhav Raghunandan Farmers’ protest | India The siege of Delhi For a year, thousands of farmers converged at the gates of the Indian capital, demonstrating against the government’s agricultural reform. Their tenacity finally paid off, with the surprise announcement that three controversial farm laws would be withdrawn By Vaibhav Raghunandan 10/01/2021
Khejrib trees like the one in this picture are sacred to the Bishnoi Photo: Maximilian Mann Day trip | India The Thar Desert in Rajasthan About the deeply rooted tradition of nature conservation among the Bishnoi in the middle of the Indian desert By Maximilian Mann 04/01/2021