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Giving citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus and what it means for Assam
The issue of granting citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh on the one hand and deporting illegal (Muslim) immigrants from Bangladesh on the other figured very prominently in the Lok...
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#AssamWithJNU #AssamforJusticeForRohith
Last few days have seen several #AssamWithJNU #JusticeForRohith protests and rallies demanding justice for Rohith Vemula and against the assault on JNU, police crackdown and arrest of JNUSU President...
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Bangladeshi, Bhagwa, Beef and the Assam Elections
First published on Sabrang India Assam enters into polls on April 4, 2016. Unlike previous elections, this time the state has caught some significant attention of the ‘nation’. The ‘nation’ is...
View ArticleAxomiya Nationalism is Dead
Assam politics, specifically Ahom politics, is at a crossroad. While Assam’s politics typically does not matter in the Indian Union’s ‘national scene’, for people of Assam, it means the world. For the...
View ArticleWhose Nationalism is it anyway?
In the last two months the country has witnessed fervent battles in the name of nationalism. We have unwittingly entered a competition of proving who is a greater ‘deshbhakt’ and who is a greater...
View ArticleAxomiya Nationalism is Dead because it was Axomiya
I just read an article published in Raiot a couple of weeks ago titled ‘Axomiya Nationalism is Dead’. Once, Prof. Sanjoy Hazarika had told me an anecdote from his days as a young journalist in the...
View ArticleAssam Verdict: A Paradigmatic Shift?
The Assam poll verdict 2016 is remarkable for more than one reason. It not only allowed BJP to form a government for the first time in Assam but also brought to the forefront some regional questions of...
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Small Town Pleasures : Watching Jatra in Dhubri
“As kids we would go in a big group every night and watch jatra,” quips my maternal uncle. Then he launches into telling me about how jatras or Bengali folk theatre used to be the main attraction in...
View ArticleThe road to saffron: A brief history from Assam
The venue of the BJP national executive meeting in Allahabad blazed with the red flowers of the Axomiya gamosa as the party celebrated it’s first-ever victory in Assam. Party leaders claimed that the...
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Assam Floods & Indian Apathy
Photographs from Dhubri & Gauripur by Khairul Islam Floods which leave a trail of devastation have become almost an annual affair in Assam. This year it has left close to 40 people dead and more...
View ArticleAssam Budget 2016: Sounds of an Empty Vessel
It was probably the longest Budget Speech ever in Assam. But this simply reminds us of the proverb “an empty vessel makes a lot of sound”. So the govt. will hand over the mid-day meal scheme to NGOs...
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Death in the Marketplace
Photos taken by author, except where specified otherwise. From the train to Kokrajhar I could see the verdant countryside passing by: flooded green rice fields, where egrets and the occasional...
View ArticlePoaching humans in Kaziranga
After the BJP came to power in Assam in May 2016, the state government has unleashed a reign of terror to execute its fascistic agendas. Within 2 months into power, the government opened fire and...
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Akhil Gogoi’s letter from Jail
Tweet Akhil Gogoi writes of his continuing incarceration by the #BJP government in #Assam On 2nd October, Akhil Gogoi, a peasant leader and founder Secretary of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) – a...
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73rd NIGHT IN PRISON!
Tweet BONOJIT HUSSAIN ON FASCIST INCARCERATIONS OF #AKHILGOGOI BY BJP GOVT. IN #ASSAM Tonight, 13th of December 2016, would be the 73nd night that Akhil Gogoi, the maverick 40 years old leader of...
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On the borders of identities
Tweet GERTRUDE LAMARE’S PHOTO DIARY OF THE #ASSAM #MEGHALAYA BORDER Armoured with a notebook, a lousy phone camera and a few overnight clothes, I nervously left Shillong alone and drove down to...
View ArticleCitizens of a Hindu Rashtra: Stirring the Ethnic Cauldron in Assam
Tweet by Sanjoy Barbora, Guwahati; Joydeep Biswas, Silchar Bidyut Sagar Boruah, Guwahati Debarshi Das, Guwahati Sanjib Deblaskar, Sonai, Silchar Anshuman Gogoi, Guwahati Gaurav Rajkhowa, Guwahati...
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Uprooting Lives in Assam
Tweet Ashraful Hussain and Parvin Sultana report on the eviction at Dhubri’s Chandordinga in #Assam Chileshwari Devi laments that they could not salvage even a single thing from their house which was...
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Shakira will be coming to Bakultol’s Bihu & ULFA likes it
Tweet A few years ago, the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) issued a decree prohibiting singers in Assam from singing Hindi songs in cultural nights around the time of the festival of Bihu....
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Guwahati’s moment of pride
Tweet Samhita Barooah writes from #Guwahati Queer Pride March 2017 How is ‘Pride’ such a pride for some or rather for a very few of us? There is always much ado about everything. Within the realm of...
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