Discourses From the East
Discourses From the East
Around nine every night, Bhebla goes to my cousin’s house. A little further down from my gate, the road turns right. Three homesteads away, on the left corner, is my cousin’s house. I eat dinner there every evening between nine…
On 3 July, at Silpagram in Guwahati, Raijor Dal’s youth organisation, Jatiya Juba Bahini, marked its fourth foundation day with a special lecture by Akhil Gogoi titled “অসমৰ অৰ্থনৈতিক ইস্তাহাৰ” or “Assam’s Economic Manifesto.” Several independent thinkers, intellectuals and activists…
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…
