SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

Selected Internet based magazines and journals on South Asia:

– published in the region (South Asia)
– published from Sweden
– academic journals published from other countries
– other South Asia related magazines and journals

Published in the region (South Asia):

Afghanistan Alive, Kabul. Free online magazine, exploring and celebrating Afghanistan's unique identity. Also publishes Kabul-e-News, a weekly summary of world news about Afghanistan (distributed via e-mail)

Afghanistan Research Newsletter, published by Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, AREU; Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghan Scene Magazine, Kabul. Aimed at Kabul's expatriate community

Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, New Delhi. Published by RIS India to generate wider awareness of the issues involved and emerging developments in the area of biotechnologies.

Aspects of India's Economy, published by the Research Unit for Political Economy, RUPE, Mumbai

Bangladesh Development Studies, Dhaka

Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, a peer-reviewed journal publishing research works on all areas of sociology, started in 2004. It welcomes contribution from all over the world, particularly from Bangladeshi sociologists working abroad.

Behind the News, published by Asia News Agency, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

CaravanThe Caravan – A Journal of Politics and Culture. Published by Delhi Press, India, this is India’s first narrative journalism magazine a la The New Yorker, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books in United States, and Granta and Prospect in the UK.

Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design, Kolkata, India. Established online in April 2011 as a platform dedicated to the artists and designers, design lovers, dreamers and people from the industry to share new ideas and innovations. new

Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi. India’s premier review magazine attracting contributions from experts and intellectuals from India and abroad. More information about Biblio.

Combat Communalism, Mumbai, India

Combat Law, New Delhi & Mumbai, India. Bimonthly magazine edited by lawyers and social activists fighting against all forms of discrimination and exploitation.

Contributions to Nepalese Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal

Countercurrents.org, Kumaranalloor, Kerala, India. Stands for peace and justice, supports struggles for economic, political, social, cultural, gender and environmental justice.

CULTURAMACULTURAMA. India’s only free cultural magazine for expatriates

Current Science, Bangalore, India

Defence Journal, Karachi, Pakistan

Down To Earth, New Delhi, India

d-sector.org, New Delhi, India. Web jornal focusing on the development sector.

Earth Science India, Lucknow, India. Quarterly e-journal devoted to the development of Earth Sciences in India, established in 2007.

Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, India

Ethnic Studies Report (International Centre for Ethnic Studies), Kandy, Sri Lanka.

FocuSLanka, interactive website of the Social Scientists’ Association (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan

Frontline, Chennai, India

Health and Science Bulletin, published by ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Herald, Karachi, Pakistan

The Hindu Literary review, Chennai, India

Holiday, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Himal magazine, Kathmandu, Nepal

Indiareacts.com. The Public Affairs Magazine, New Delhi, India

India Today, New Delhi, India

India Together, Bangalore. Electronic publication devoted to coverage of public affairs, policy, and development.

India Now, published by the Confederation of Indian Industry

India PerspectivesIndia Perspectives, published for the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi

Indian Journal of Human Development (IJHD), peer-reviewed multi disciplinary journal, published bi-annually by the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.

Islamic Voice, Bangalore, India

Journal of Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, published by ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Indian Political Science Association, Meerut, India

Journal of The Indian Society of Remote Sensing, IIT Kanpur, India

Journal for Sustainable Development

Kailash – Journal of Himalayan Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal

The Little Magazine, New Delhi, India

Mainstreaming ICTs – Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, published by OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi, India

Manushi, Journal about Women and Society, Delhi, India

Milli Gazette, Indian Muslims’ leading newpaper, New Delhi, India

Minivan News. Independent news for the Maldives, updated daily with news from the Maldives and abroad and commentary and opinion from its panel of independent columnists.

New AngleNew Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, Kathmandu, Nepal. Aims to relate research to policy and practice in Nepal, in order to inform social movements, development institutions and governmental practices. new

New Asia Monitor, newsletter for the New Asia Forum, an initiative of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India. Promotes the cause of regional economic integration.

Newsline, Karachi, Pakistan

Outlook, New Delhi, India

People's Democracy. Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Protected Area Update, New Delhi, India. Digest of news and information from protected nature areas in South Asia, produced by Kalpavriksh, an Indian environment action group

Refugee Watch, Kolkata, India, published by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group

Sampark Journal of Global Understanding, Kolkata, India. Human sciences journal focusing on one country in each issue.

Science Technology and Society, New Delhi, India

Seminar, New Delhi, India. Monthly symposium magazine published for the past 40 years.

South Asian Journal, Lahore, Pakistan. Published by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA).

Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics, University of Peradeniya

Sunday Observer, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Viewpoint, Lahore, Pakistan

A list of other South Asian Magazines on the World Wide Web, provided by the University of Pennsylvania.


Other South Asia related magazines and journals published around the World:


ZNet Watch/South Asia Watch.
A resource for activists interested in South Asian politics, economics, and development, with links to essays and alternative news sources.

ACHA Peace Bulletin, published by the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia, ACHA, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Ego MagazineEGO, New York-based magazine for the South Asian diaspora interested in culture, fashion, design, travel and entertainment.

Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), HongKong, China. FEER published since 1946 used to be Asia's premier magazine on business and politics. The weekly magazine was however closed down by the owners, Dow Jones & Company, on 4 November 2004. It will resume publication from 17 December as a completely different monthly, with no correspondents and limiting itself only to analysis on Asia’s political economy.

GOPIO News, published by the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin, based in Stamford, CT., USA

IndiaCurrents.com, San José, California, USA

Sabawoon Online, Fountain Valley, California, USA. Providing accurate and independent news and information on Afghanistan.

• the-south-asian.com, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.

Sri Lanka Monitor, London, UK. Closed down in the Fall 2004, but all back issues 1996-2004 are available.

Südasien Online, Berlin, Germany. Web news published by Südasien-Informationsnetz

Vaishnava News Network. Independent information source and communication center to the Vaishnava Hindu world community.

TWRThe World Reporter. A news opinion and analysis website with articles mainly on South Asian countries, their policies and diplomacy. maintained and updated by students from around the world (India-US-UK-Romania-Philippines). Headquartered in New Delhi, founded by Sanskar Shrivastava. new

Published from Sweden:

antaryami.net. Sri Vaishnava Vedantic News published by Vinod Sriperumbuduru, Indian student in Linköping.

Asian Newsletter, published by Framtidsjorden, and the Swallows India-Bangladesh section

Asian Tribune, edited by K. T. Rajasingham, now living in Sweden.

Asre Jadid, published by the Workers Socialist Organization of Afghanistan, Göteborg

Druk Yul, published by the Swedish-Bhutan Society

Farda, published by the Afghans' Pen Club in Stockholm, in three languages: Swedish, English and Dari.

Framtider, published by the Institute for Future Studies. – Special issue on India (no 3/2001)

Gandhi Today Blog. Magazine turned into blog, by Jan Viklund.

Hela Jorden, Lund

IM (Individuell Människohjälp), published by the Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief

Karavan. Magazine on Third World Literature.

Magasinet Omvärlden, Stockholm. Sida’s magazine

Nyhetsbrev Indien, Stockholm, published by Empatum/David Ståhl.

Peace and Democracy in South Asia (PDSA), independent, international, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of peace and democracy in the region published by the Politics of Development Group at Stockholm University.

EDC NewsSustainable Development Update (SDU) News Blog, published by Sida and Albaeco, an independent non-profit organisation founded in 1998 by researchers in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm University together with representatives from advertising, media and business economics.

Tidskriften Sydasien, Linköping

Uttarapath, Gothenburg. First published Bangla magazine in Scandinavia

Zavia. Literary magazine published by the Urdu Academy, Lund. Information on Zavia (in Swedish only)


Academic Journals published from other countries:

Annual of Urdu Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

Columbia Undergraduate Journal of South Asian Studies (CUJSAS), web-only academic journal based out of Columbia University, USA. The journal is a space for undergraduates to publish their original research on South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) from both the social sciences and humanities.

Contemporary South Asia, Bradford, UK (only abstracts available for non-subscribers)

Critical Asian Studies (formerly Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars), Cedar, Michigan, USA

CROP Newsletter (Comparative Research Programme on Poverty), Bergen, Norway

eJournal of Indian Medicine (eJIM), Leiden, Netherlands. Multidisciplinary periodical that publishes studies on South Asian medical systems by qualified scholars in philology, medicine, pharmacology, botany, anthropology and sociology. eJIM is free, but you have to register in order to read the articles.

Himalayan Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Indian Link. Newspaper of the Indian subcontinent community in Australia, an integral part of lives of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Nepal and Bangladesh.
   Indian Link e-paper

Indika, published by the Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development (ELINEPA), Greece

IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies), Leiden, the Netherlands

International Journal of Tantric Studies, published by the Asiatica Society, Milan, Italy

Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, published by the Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies, Perth, Australia

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Oxford University Press

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Johns Hopkins Press. Sponsored by University of Warwick. new

Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, published by the College of Arts & Science . University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press

Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia (JPDSA), an independent international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of peace and democracy in the region. Published by the Association for the Global Dissemination of Academic Research (AGDAR), Karlstad, Sweden.

Journal of South Asian Linguistics (JSAL). Open Access Journal devoted to work pursuing formal approaches to the study of South Asian Languages

JSAWSJournal of South Asia Women Studies, published by the Asiatica Society, Milan, Italy

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Oxford University Press

Newsletter of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

NIAS-Nytt, Copenhagen, Denmark

Masala, the Savifa (Virtual Library South Asia) Newsletter, Heidelberg, Germany

Pakistaniaat, a refereed, multidisciplinary, open-access academic journal offering a forum for scholarly and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani history, culture, literature, and politics. Published from Kent State University, Ohio, USA. A public, multi-author forum to complement the journal is launched in 2011.new

Pattrika, bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India (Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi; École française d'Extrême-Orient; Institut Français de Pondichéry).

SAGARSAGAR, annual journal sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, published till 2006. Selected archive issues available on-line. The journal included faculty and graduate research methodology, reports from the field, and book reviews.

Sanskaar, published by Cambridge University Hindu Cultural Society, UK new

The South Asia Center News. Outreach bulletin of the the South Asia Center, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA.

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. published by Routledge under the authority of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia (only abstracts available for non-subscribers)

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, SAMAJ, Paris, France. Academic on-line journal devoted to social sciences studies on South Asia

SOASSouth Asia Newsletter, produced by the Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

South Asia Monitor, newsletter of the South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington DC, USA

Teaching South Asia: An Internet Journal of Pedagogy. Semi-annual on-line journal, freely accessible through the Project South Asia Website, Missouri Southern State College, USA.

World Development, an Elsevier multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies, edited by the Dept. of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.


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