The Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Michael Neale was born in Kashmir, India and worked for Reuters in Asia and Africa

This piece offers a reflective exploration of Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom in Imperfection by Nobuo Suzuki and

An online lecture with Dr Nick Miller
28 May 2026 13:00 BST

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Based on Dr Miller’s PhD research, this lecture will explore how the CIA and wider US intelligence community tried to make se...

An online lecture with Michael Dillon
15 October 2026 14:00 BST Online

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Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city has become the beating heart of Chinese capitalism, a pl...

Dr Rónán Lee is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Loughborough University and the author of Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech<...

Simit Bhagat Is an award-winning Filmmaker, Journalist, musician and cultural archivist based in Mubai, India

Some histories survive not in official archives, but in songs.

In the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern Indi...