‘South Asia @ LSE’ is the Centre’s flagship academic blog, publishing cutting-edge academic ideas to foster informed debate and discussion. Since 2021, it has consistently ranked among the top 10 (out of 40+) academic blogs at LSE, with nearly half a million readers every year.
We are the only Centre in a Higher Education institution anywhere in the world to have published a series of 12 special blogposts to mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s birth and independence (January-December 2021), covering a variety of topics written by academics and thought leaders at LSE and across the globe. These have been widely read and greatly appreciated. All the special blogs are listed below in reverse order.
December 2021: Daniel Payne, ‘Peter Shore & Bangladesh in the LSE Archives’
November 2021: Chowdhury Dilruba Shoma, ‘Short-term Migrant Labourers in Bangladesh: The Pandemic and Beyond’
October 2021: Mathilde Maitrot & Joe Devine, ‘Bangladesh @ 50: Challenges to Inclusion’
September 2021: Sharmin Akter, Nargis Begum, Hafiza Akter Rani & Juli Qermezi Huang, ‘Covid Narratives of Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh’
August 2021: Seán Carey, ‘Brick Lane, Curry & Covid-19’
July 2021: Arpana Awwal, ‘Bangladesh: Film Censorship in Film Magazines’
June 2021: Meghna Guhathakurta, ‘Bangladesh @ 50: The Silent Revolution’
May 2021: Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, ‘Celebrating Bangladesh at 50: A Positive Deviance’
April 2021: Katy Gardner, ‘Fighting for Gender Equality in Bangladesh: An Interview with Sheepa Hafiza’
March 2021: Julian Francis, ‘An Indian and Bangladeshi Journey’
February 2021: Sashanka S Banerjee, ‘Mujibur Rahman’s First Secret Meeting with an Indian Officer – Me’
January 2021: Kamal Hossain, ‘From Prison to Freedom: Flying with Bangabandhu to Independent Bangladesh’
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