Discourses From the East
Karbi Anglong: The Sixth Schedule Under Siege
The violence that engulfed West Karbi Anglong on December 22, 2025, leaving two dead and over seventy injured, was not a spontaneous…
Discourses From the East
Nitish Kumar Row: Is it fair to pull down a woman’s veil?
Recently, a video went viral in which Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, is seen forcefully pulling down a Muslim woman’s…
Pillai Sahab
Translators’ preface: This is a translation of the narrative “Pillai Sahab” from Ei Ran Ei Jivan by Kamaleswar Barua, a collection of…
Six Decades of Waiting: Why Assam’s Marginalized Ethnic Groups Deserve More Than Political Theatre
On November 27, 2025, the Assam Cabinet approved the Group of Ministers’ report on granting Scheduled Tribe status to the six historically…
THE SILENT COLLAPSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASSAM
A prolonged halt in faculty recruitment, widening dependence on contractual teachers and a series of controversial policy proposals have created deep uncertainty…
When a Monopoly Tests the State: What IndiGo’s Shutdown Tells Us About Power in Today’s India
IndiGo did not run out of planes or fuel in the first week of December. It ran out of room to defy…