Category: South Asia
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Transformation of the Indian National Congress’s Freedom Struggle: Shifting Political Discourse and Objectives to Reflect the Gandhian Interpretation of Swaraj
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, is “often called the ‘father of India’…
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Role in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations
In October 2025, clashes broke out along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.[1] These came…
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Landmark Opposition to India’s Caste System: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the 1930s
Understanding Ambedkar’s Views through His Essay “An Annihilation of Caste” Introduction Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar,…
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Gen-Z and Political Power in South Asia: Youth-led Movements
Introduction Over the course of history, there have been many dramatic shifts in societal values…
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From Resistance to Revolution: The Evolution of Anti-Colonial Struggles into Organized Nationalism in South Asia (Late 19th–Early 20th Century)
As the twentieth century came about, South Asia’s nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggles evolved into organized nationalist…
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Progress, Preservation, and Transition to a Civilizing Mission: British Colonial Rule in South Asia from the late 18th-century to the mid-19th-Century
This paper is written by Siya Duggal, a Guest Author at SYNERGY. ABSTRACT This article…
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India’s Gamble with Digitalization
India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is one of the most ambitious technological undertakings in the…
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More Education but Less Jobs? Female Labor Force Participation and the Contradictions of the Indian Economy
We all know how the modernization story goes. A country, impoverished and underdeveloped, struggling to…
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Climate Change Policies: The Need of the Hour
In the blistering summer of 2023, a farmer in northern India watched the last of…
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Sustainable Tourism: An Oxymoron? Bhutan, Ecotourism, and its Internal Contradictions
A Small Country with a Big Impact Bhutan, a small South Asian country located in…
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