Discourses From the East
Discourses From the East
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…
