Dubious Certainties: The NRC and Ethnic conflict in Assam
Tweet We take this opportunity to condemn Maulana Arshad Madani’s inflammatory statement made some days ago in Delhi in the context of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating process. The...
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Bhupen Hazarika – his leftist years
Tweet One had to travel through rural Assam’s greenery and at that very instant listened to Bhupen Hazarika singing somewhere around to appreciate what Gulzar meant when he said Assam’s nature oozes...
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A Tale of Two Evictions in Assam
Tweet Assam’s people were left haunted by the picture of a woman calmly carrying a gas stove from a heap of rubble — what used to be her home. The young woman’s set expression showed the helplessness...
View ArticleMamta Banerjee has not understood the National Register of Citizens in Assam
Tweet Assam is no stranger to controversies, in fact the political nerves of the ‘Assamese national life-world’ (Axomiya jatiyo jiban) is not satisfied if it is not titillated by controversies once or...
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The Spectre of Citizenship : History & Politics of NRC in Assam
Tweet On the night of 31st December, 2017 the first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam. This has set off a mini-storm in the political scene of Assam, Bangladesh...
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Women should drink – not in hiding, but in front of everyone
Tweet On 22 January, on the day of Saraswati Puja, two girls were photographed buying alcohol from a wine shop in Assam. The photograph not only went viral on social media, but also became subject to...
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1983 Nagabanda Massacre and the other side of Assamese Intelligentsia
Tweet Nagabanda High School is one of the oldest educational institutes of Morigaon district of Assam. The school is situated near the Nagabanda Bazar, about 15 KMs from the district headquarter. The...
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A Khasi-Pnar anti corruption campaigner is assaulted by other Khasis in Barak...
Tweet This is a report by Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC), Assam Mrs. Christina Pyrtuh and her family were assaulted, molested and driven out of her home and village for protesting...
View ArticleA short guide to AIUDF for General Rawat
Tweet Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, speaking at a conference on Northeast made a few statements which did not go down well with many. At the conference “ North East Region of India—Bridging Gaps and...
View ArticleALIFA : loss & longing of ‘Miya’ muslims of Assam
Tweet ALIFA Producer – Armaan Ahmed Director – Deep Choudhury Writer – Deep Choudhury Screenplay – Deep Choudhury Music – Bickram Ghosh, Subir Kumar Das Cast – Baharul Islam, Jaya Seal, Victor...
View ArticleIs there a rape culture in Assamese society?
Tweet Crimes against women in India have seen a rise from 3,29,243 in 2015 to 3,38,954 in 2016, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. It also shows that 34,651 cases of rape were registered...
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[InstaEssay] Living/dying in Guwahati
Tweet How does one capture the changing legacy of a city as ancient as time and which is now understood as space which has been a colonial construct? Born and brought up in Guwahati, I have a bond as...
View ArticleWhy Hindutva inspired Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 needs to be opposed
Tweet An Assamese version of this article appeared in Amar Asom on November 23, 2016 as a joint public statement, with the above authors as signatories, First published on RAIOT on Jan 16, 2017 The...
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Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is a tool of polarisation, but the issue of...
Tweet The election manifesto 2014 of the Bharatiya Janata Party contained an important sentence, “India shall remain a natural home for persecuted Hindus and they shall be welcome to seek refuge...
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The makings of a Bodo film festival in Dimakuchi
Tweet 28 April 2017 I am near the Indo-Bhutan border in a village called Dimakuchi in the Udalguri district of Assam in Northeast India. There are hundreds of people around me and we are in a large...
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Remembering Sukracharjya Rabha – a people’s artist
Tweet Sukracharjya Rabha was born in 1977, in a remote village Rampur in Goalpara district of western Assam. He started working with local tribal people to promote theatre. Within short span of time...
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Bishnu Prasad Rabha
Tweet On August 15, 1947, when India gained independence, Bishnu Prasad Rabha led a black flag demonstration in a village named Dighelia, shouting “Ye Azaadi Jhootha Hain, Sirf Chamra Ka Badal” (This...
View ArticleWaiting for 30th June
Tweet There have been many-sided arguments about the problems around National Register of Citizens (NRC) that is being updated in Assam for the first time since 1951, and its implications, especially...
View ArticleDoubtful Citizenship, Distorted Rights in Assam
Tweet Debates on National Register of Citizens no longer remain confined to the borders of Assam (and North East). United Against Hate, an Indian Human Rights organisation working on the questions of...
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ON NRC IN ASSAM
Tweet On 24th July, 2018, Forum Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill, a progressive multi-ethnic, multi-religious group of Assam held press conference critiquing the Hindu Right and also the Indian...
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