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How to Describe Karbis?
Tweet Colonial politics of labelling communities have had disastrous consequences which continue to impact the lives of the colonized. Identities were created and circulated through this act which in...
View ArticleIn Praise of Miya Poetry of Assam
Tweet Translated from Axomiya by Biswajit Bora Congratulations to Miya poetry. Probably for the first time a new movement in poetry has started to express the life and struggles of char-chapori...
View ArticleNew Cataclysmic Nature Of Floods in Assam
Tweet Translated from Axomiya by Biswajit Bora and Mayur Chetia. The article was originally published in the leading Assamese daily, Asomiya Pratidin, on 20 August 2017. The problem of flood in Assam...
View ArticleOn Suspicious and Mischievous Re-Verification Notices by NRC Authority
Tweet To, The Honourable Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, Tilak Marg, New Delhi – 110201 (Through the Registrar, Supreme Court of India, email id: supremecourt@nic.in) Dated: 7th...
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Run Assam Run, Run from the ‘Run of the River’ Dams!
Tweet Run Assam Run! Run People of Assam Run! Run Away from the Run of the River! Learn to Run! Keep Running! Why do we have to Run? Run for your lives from the River! Run because the ‘Run of the...
View ArticleThe Real Horror of CAB & NRC
Tweet Indian Liberals must understand that the CAB and the NRC are truly pernicious and evil, not simply because they are against Indian Muslims. By and large (outside Assam) they are not. So let’s...
View Article12/12/2019 – 5 people shot – 2 dead in Anti CAB Protest in Guwahati, Assam
Tweet As the National Media has decided on silence – this death list (just from Guwahati) is from the reports on local TV networks. Chalk up these murders on the head of RSS/BJP/Hindutva Fascist...
View ArticleSpeaking amidst spies and drones in Latasil, Guwahati, Assam
Tweet [This reportage for RAIOT is by Mr. Berham Pooter, who for the purpose of retaining his freedom wishes to remain anonymous] In the Quiet Morning In the morning of December 12, 2019 most people...
View ArticleRegister of Conflict: NRC and Ethnic Politics in Assam
Tweet This essay is the work of Gaurav Rajkhowa, Ankur Tamuliphukan, Bidyut Sagar Boruah and Anshuman Gogoi of Uki Research Collective The last few days have seen a wave of protest and resistance all...
View ArticleDo we return to the Nineties?
Tweet Translated from Axomiya by Biswajit K. Bora Assam is witnessing all-encompassing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) at this moment. People from every class, caste or creed...
View ArticleYou Don’t Get North East of India!
Tweet The ruling dispensation has successfully cleared the passage to the Citizenship Amendment Bill days ago on its second attempt and that now has become a legal constitutional Act. When it was...
View ArticleListen to Our Stories to Understand AntiCAB Protests in North East India
Tweet Over the last few days, I’ve found myself repeatedly on the defensive—from accusations flying around about the xenophobic Northeast, that people there “just want to kick everybody out”. Other...
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Essential Guide to the Crisis of Citizenship in Assam
Tweet My first personal introduction to the flurry of activities that would be associated with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was in June 2015. My partner and I were in Australia for...
View Article“This National Awakening Goes Beyond AntiCAA”: Akhil Gogoi
Tweet The article, translated from Axomiya by Biswajit K Bora, is a formal write-up of what Akhil Gogoi had verbally communicated to his comrades of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, when he was in Jorhat...
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CAA2019: Hope and Despair of Self-Determination
Tweet According to the understanding of Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO), the right to self-determination is the right of a people to determine its own destiny. In particular,...
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Termite Eaten Memories
Tweet My mother has been complaining a lot these days about termites, she says they have been all over the house and are eating it up from within, “a jerk of earthquake and the house will collapse”....
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Akhil Gogoi’s Open Letter to the Leadership of Assam’s National Organisations
Tweet This is a translation of Akhil Gogoi’s open letter he handed over to his comrades when he was presented before a special National Investigation Agency court in Guwahati on 24 January 2020. Akhil...
View ArticleLearning From Hajo in Assam
Tweet Of late, the communal forces, both of Hindus and Muslims, have been raising their ugly heads all over the country in an alarming way. These elements, with their divisive words, thoughts and...
View ArticleLocating #AntiCAA Protests from Assam
Tweet The unrelenting movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) reveals that the wounds of the past remain unhealed. While the CAA is an attempt at settling, to quote Sanjib Baruah,...
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Silencing a Valley : Disorienting a Nation
Tweet In the earliest penitentiaries, in Northern America, black slaves were imprisoned for the first time, in solitude and silence. They were carried in carts to the prisons, and before they saw the...
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