Discourses From the East
Discourses From the East
“Frontiers are rarely empty spaces without people,” Sanjib Baruah writes in In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast. “They may be places full of promise to some, but to those whose life-space is invaded, incursion comes as…
This piece sat unfinished for months. Written in the immediate aftermath of Zubeen da’s passing, it felt too raw, the emotions still unsettled and unprocessed. There was hesitation about whether speaking would deepen understanding or add to the familiar swell…
The violence that engulfed West Karbi Anglong on December 22, 2025, leaving two dead and over seventy injured, was not a spontaneous eruption. It was the inevitable consequence of years of institutional paralysis in addressing land alienation and unchecked settlement…
On November 27, 2025, the Assam Cabinet approved the Group of Ministers’ report on granting Scheduled Tribe status to the six historically marginalized ethnic communities of Assam. Two days later, on November 29, the interim report was tabled in the…
