Monsoon Dispatch

South Asia's week, from Dhaka to Colombo to Karachi

Tanvir Rahman Chowdhury2 episodes2 min of audio43 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Mar 19, 20260:5626 plays Preview

Karachi's port deal and the floods upstream

A Karachi correspondent explains a new port operating agreement, while upstream flooding on shared rivers raises old questions about warning systems between neighbours who rarely talk.

S1 · E1Jan 1, 20260:5817 plays Members

Garment wages, a Colombo ruling and the Nepal power deal

A minimum wage review in Dhaka's garment sector, a Supreme Court ruling in Colombo on a port lease, and a cross-border electricity deal that could change Nepal's economy.

About the show

Monsoon Dispatch is a weekly news review of South Asia for people who live there, come from there or do business there and find that the international coverage either ignores the region or reduces it to one capital city. Tanvir Rahman Chowdhury anchors from Dhaka and each week brings in a correspondent from a different city, so one week it is textile wages in Bangladesh, the next it is a court ruling in Colombo, a port deal in Karachi or a state election in India. The format is a two-voice conversation, around 35 minutes, calm and plainly non-partisan, with a short segment on one regional story that will matter in six months even though nobody is talking about it yet. It comes out every Saturday morning so you can listen with the weekend paper. Expect cricket to come up only when it genuinely affects the news.

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