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Siddharthya Roy
Siddharthya Roy is a New Delhi-based correspondent on South Asian affairs.
Siddharthya Roy is a New Delhi-based correspondent on South Asian affairs. He’s an alumnus of the Columbia Journalism School in New York and a 2018 Pulitzer Center grantee. He tweets @siddharthyaroy
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October 01, 2018
Bangladesh: The Anatomy of a Political Arrest
By Siddharthya Roy
One man’s fate after the August protests illustrates the government’s growing paranoia.

July 03, 2018
Bangladesh’s Crossfire Doctrine
By Siddharthya Roy
Extrajudicial killings spike in Bangladesh’s “Duterte style” drug war.

June 04, 2018
Yaba: The Red Pills and the Rohingya
By Siddharthya Roy
Bangladesh’s cities are awash with red methamphetamine pills that come in from Myanmar.

April 14, 2018
Bangladesh’s Students Back on the Streets in Protest
By Siddharthya Roy
Over the last week, Bangladesh saw intense student unrest over quotas in government jobs.

March 06, 2018
Aadhaar: India's Flawed Biometric Database
By Siddharthya Roy
Aadhaar got pwned. Why isn’t the Indian government taking Aadhaar’s exposed security flaws seriously?

January 29, 2018
Bangladesh's New Generation of Militants
By Siddharthya Roy
Akayed Ullah, a wannabe jihadist, represents a new generation of militants.

September 21, 2017
Half a Century of India’s Maoist Insurgency
By Siddharthya Roy
A political analysis of the long-running conflict.

July 06, 2017
A Year of Bangladesh's War on Terror
By Siddharthya Roy
A year after the Dhaka bakery bloodbath, counterterrorism remains deeply political.
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