When The Indian Ideology Trips On Assamese ‘Xenophobia’
Tweet The authors are members of the Guwahati-based Uki Research Collective The long anti-CAA movement has seen lakhs of people coming out in protest across the country. However, many have also noted...
View ArticleThe Fight against Coronavirus in Assam cannot Ignore the Economically Vulnerable
Tweet This memorandum was submitted to the Chief Minister’s Office on March 23, before the statewide lockdown was announced. The demands and concerns raised through this petition, however, remain...
View ArticleLockdown: Locked with the Abuser
Tweet The home which is now the safest place for all to protect oneself and families from the virus is now turning out to be a nightmare for women who are in abusive relationship. Now you are locked...
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[LONGREAD] Expectations of Modernity : Extractive Economy of Assam
Tweet Recently, three incidents have rocked Assam: a coal mining concession in a part of Dehing-Patkai Elephant Reserve, an oil blowout in Baghjaan, and the extra-judicial killing of an Assamese youth...
View ArticleShould We Pay Toll Tax?
Tweet Recently I got an opportunity to interact with an official of National Highway Authority (NHAI) in a television debate on an Assamese news channel. In that debate broadcast from Guwahati, Mr....
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Love, Labour and Loss in Baghjan
Tweet চʼতৰ বিহুত বৰদৈচিলা মাকৰ ঘৰলৈ যায়/Sotor bihut Bordoisila maakor gharaloi jaai গছ গছনি ঘৰ দোৱাৰ নিয়ে উৰোৱাই।/Gos Gasani Ghar duwar niye uruwaai. Every Bohag Bihu, Bordoisila sets out for her...
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Reading the press releases by OIL about the Baghjan blowout, Assam, India
Tweet “As a consequence, the ongoing operations had to be immediately suspended and the well started releasing natural gas in an uncontrolled manner.” (27/05/2020) This is from an official press...
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How to Make and Unmake India and its Northeast
Tweet What does it take to build a nation? Hiren Gohain and Sanjib Baruah once had a prolonged debate on the stakes of nationalism during the Assam Movement in the 1980s. Professor Gohain, broadly...
View Article#Comrade #LalSalam #UAPA #Terror
Tweet Greetings like “Comrade” or “Lal Salam” can land one in jail under the UAPA as per NIA’s chargesheet against Bittu Sonowal. When greetings start triggering anti-terror laws, it becomes important...
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You have heard of George Floyd from USA but what about Jayanta Borah of Assam?
Tweet In the evening of 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46 years old African-American man was choked to death by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, an incident...
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The Proposed Land Ordinance, 2020 in Assam: An Abdication of Public Trust?
Tweet On June 29, 2020; the Minister of Industries and Commerce of Assam released a series of tweets announcing that the Council of Ministers had approved an ordinance by which industries could be set...
View ArticleWatch māti to Understand the Cycle of Flood and Displacement in Assam
Tweet Torrential rains, this monsoon like every other has worsened the flood situation in Assam. This year already around 1.1 million people have been affected in 23 districts and the fatalities due...
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Is Assam Govt. Trying to Dispossess People of their Land?
Tweet Way back in 1937, Axomiya Sangrakhyani Sabha [Society for the Protection of Assamese], a group within the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee raised the issue of land alienation of indigenous...
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Assam Floods | Pandemic | 2020 | Photo Feature
Tweet It is an annual episode that plays itself out. Assam is, once again, reeling under flood – loss of human and animal life, severe damage to agricultural crops, property, millions of people...
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A Design to Uproot the Natives
Tweet One of the Cabinet Ministers of Assam Shri Chandra Mohan Patowary has recently revealed a decision of the Assam government in his official twitter handle that has sparked a row and has drawn...
View ArticleHow Global Academia Represents Assam & Northeast India
Tweet Writing the Northeast India, often leads to misrepresentation, distortion, misinformation of the places, peoples and resources. These are not merely floating around in popular mentality, these...
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The Bounds of the Nation
Tweet Comment on In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast, by Sanjib Baruah; Stanford University Press, 2020. A “war of all against all” is a constant possibility in what the 17th century...
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How to Make and Unmake India and its Northeast
Tweet What does it take to build a nation? Hiren Gohain and Sanjib Baruah once had a prolonged debate on the stakes of nationalism during the Assam Movement in the 1980s. Professor Gohain, broadly...
View Article#Comrade #LalSalam #UAPA #Terror
Tweet Greetings like “Comrade” or “Lal Salam” can land one in jail under the UAPA as per NIA’s chargesheet against Bittu Sonowal. When greetings start triggering anti-terror laws, it becomes important...
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You have heard of George Floyd from USA but what about Jayanta Borah of Assam?
Tweet In the evening of 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46 years old African-American man was choked to death by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, an incident...
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