Discourses From the East
Discourses From the East
Assam’s 2023 delimitation is often described as communal gerrymandering. That is true, but it does not go far enough. In a state where electoral politics runs across multiple fault lines, religion, tribe, caste, language, autonomy, land, and local leadership, delimitation…
The election schedule has been announced. Dates have been fixed. Papers have been notified. Assam will vote on 9 April 2026. Counting will take place on 4 May. Nominations close on 23 March, scrutiny on 24 March, withdrawals on 26…
A familiar meme circulates in India’s left-liberal ecosystem whenever a new war breaks out. It says: nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent. North Korea built the bomb and avoided attack. Iran did not, and now it is being bombed. The…
For a few years now I have been sitting on a small observation that did not make sense to anyone except me, my friend Tarun Bhartiya, and my field. I dedicate this piece to Tarun, who passed away last year.…
On the afternoon of 25 May, 2025, three police personnel in plain clothes arrived at a house in Burkura village in Nalbari and asked for a 68-year-old woman: Sakina Begum. She had returned there only a few hours earlier from…
In Assam today, eviction is not merely an administrative act but a full-blown performance of citizenship, where the bulldozer does more than move earth, it actively sorts people into categories that are not neutral descriptors but the very operating system…
