Assam’s foreign nationals’ problem needs to be sorted out urgently, for India’s sake. The situation currently brewing in the state was only to be expected, after one government spent decades not just protecting alleged illegal migrants, but also turning them into a vote bank that
The Army chief’s comments on the Mon massacre (December 4, 2021) make for interesting reading, coming as it does some 64 years after the AFSPA was first promulgated in the Northeast. The Mon massacre involved the killing of six coal miners who the Army claimed
The nation cannot afford to have a dirty backyard and preach peace to the world
For the simple reason that there are not just two Indias but many, and no one is giving anyone you know what. There is an India in the villages, an India in its towns, an India in its cities and metros and an India that
By Arup Saikia Bhaona is a traditional form of one-act play of Assam created in sixteenth century by Srimanta Xankardev, which is utilised as audio-visual medium for spreading social and religious reformative message. Originally only staged Ankiya Nats written by Xankardev and Madhavdev are called Bhaona, more
The credit for our elections, does not under any circumstance go to any government that has attempted to run Assam. The credit, without a doubt, goes to the person who with a beaming smile shows off that indelible ink stain that shows he or
Silchar gears up for polls, struggles with civic woes and lack of development
With the ruling party in turmoil, will winds of change blow in Assam this time?
A die hard Guwahati lover shares his experience of the city, with its pros and cons
The country's Press is at the crossroads, and the line between reported truth, and fiction, can be dangerously thin