Subject: Editors' Picks: How India and Pakistan reached the verge of a water war, and why the United States keeps getting South Asia wrong
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EDITORS' PICKS

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02/25/2019

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at why major humanitarian crises from Madagascar to the Philippines received relatively little attention last year, the potential consequences of India’s threats to divert river water away from Pakistan, and how the United States has changed its outlook on South Asia.

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GIVING A DAM: Amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan, FP’s Keith Johnson spoke with Sunil Amrith, a professor of South Asian studies, about how water shapes the region’s history, politics, and economic development.

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BLUES CYCLE: A new study finds some of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters go virtually uncovered, FP’s Amy Mackinnon reports.

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"NOT YET" IN NAIROBI: Kenya’s High Court on Friday postponed a much-awaited decision on a colonial-era law that criminalizes the relationships of LGBT Kenyans, Neela Ghoshal writes.

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WILD THOUGHTS: Srinath Raghavan’s book "Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia" maps out how stereotypes of spiritual Hindus and martial Muslims continued to shape U.S. policies toward India and Pakistan well into the 20th century, Sam Winter-Levy writes.

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CREATING A CRISIS: Iran’s corruption is draining the country of its most precious resource—water, Alireza Nader and Nik Kowsar write.

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