In Assam's detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a…
Hindutva politics and the entrenched ethnic tensions in Assam have intensified the “othering” of Bengali Muslims in the state. But these "others" live in extreme poverty compared to other…
Dibru Saikhowa in Assam is home to a population of feral horses, whose origin is not clear. This small group is under threat from floods and competition with human settlements.
In Assam, the victims of the 2020 Baghjan oil well fire continue to wait for compensation, even as their landscapes and lives have irrevocably changed for the worse. They live in a state of…
Assam's development discourse is embedded in wilful ignorance of history, ecology, and migration patterns. This ignorance feeds narratives of land-hungry migrants usurping land and seeking to…
Language has been at the heart of political debate in Assam since the formation of the British colonial province of Assam in 1874, then through the turbulent decades leading to Independence, the…
The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has…
Sanjib Baruah's new book is 'a prescient ledger' of what Northeast India has become and at the same time 'a cautionary tale' of where muscular policy may take us in the rest…
