Discourses From the East
What Kokrajhar Reveals About Assam’s Delimitation
Assam’s 2023 delimitation is often described as communal gerrymandering. That is true, but it does not go far enough. In a state…
Discourses From the East
We, The People of The Northeast / উই দ্য পিপ্ ল অব্ দ্য নৰ্থ-ইষ্ট
I live in the Northeastof India, the world’s fifth-largest economy.With every breath I take,the soil of my home slips away.In the murky…
Gatekeeping Knowledge: First-Generation Researchers and the Politics of Fieldwork in Northeast India
In India’s vast intellectual landscape, the Northeast is often described through absence missing from national debates, underrepresented in mainstream media, peripheral to…
Celebrated as Beneficiary, Disrupted as Dissenter
In today’s politics, there is a strong effort to present concern for women as a material of campaign. What the Bharatiya Janata…
Women in Assam, Remember : Your Vote is the Test of your Consciousness.
When a woman walks into a polling booth, she needs to carry some responsibilities beyond her individual political preference. She needs to…
Assam Assembly Election: The Flawed Pattern
The air in Assam’s Brahmaputra valley, thick with the onset of the monsoon, now also carries the charge of an approaching election.…