The India Connection

May 5, 2017

An investigation into the narcotics trade

The Homepage

By Alia Allana

The Homepage is my online home, a site with a selection of my writing from refugee camps to fashion shows. 

Interview

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Bashar Ja’afari, the current Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, opens up on Syria

March 15, 2021
June 13, 2020

When fake news nearly started a riot

Aug 10, 2018

WhatsApp, Crowds and Power in India

June 21, 2017

The Police Rapes

March 6, 2017

The abuse and systematic marginalization of policewomen in India.

Prisoners of the state

October 12, 2019

“Rabia’s children adjusted to life in captivity. They played hide and seek. They found spots across the barrack and allies in some of the inmates.


Reshma, a burly prostitute not only gave good cover but she also lied well.


“Nobody’s here,” she scowled and the boys would giggle standing back to back behind her.”

Yemen: The invisible war

Nov 6, 2017

More than 10,000 killed, two million displaced, as Saudi Arabia leads the Arabian Peninsula’s bloodiest fight in decades.

The White Sheep

Dec 1, 2009

Dubai is. It is over-the-top extravagance, it is opulence in abundance, an imagery that challenges even the most feverish imagination.

Mudra: Promise and reality

Dec 12, 2018

No jobs wave, and the makings of a banking crisis.

Desert refuge

June 4, 2013

How the largest Syrian refugee camp became a mini-Syria.

EDITS

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Editorials published in the Indian Express from 2008-2011