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Hindutva's Easternmost Frontier Expands: Reading the BJP sweep in Assam
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by its boisterous Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma (HBS), is back in power in Assam, the largest state in Northeast India. In fact, the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) has returned to the 126-s...
E09 | Looking through the Delimitation Haze in Assam
In 2023, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the completion of the ‘delimitation’ process in Assam – redrawing electoral constituencies in a way that can only be called absurd.
The process has not only visibly reshaped the sta...
One-sided and conspiratorial: How Indian media keeps getting Myanmar wrong
This article was originally published in Newslaundry on 3 April 2026 and is republished here with permission. Read the original version here.
When the National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently apprehended seven foreign nationals – six U...
SIR: How Assam's disenfranchisement model has reappeared in West Bengal
Photo for representation only: Voters in queue for 2009 general elections in West Bengal | Source: Flickr
More than a crore – or 10 million – voters in the east Indian state of West Bengal (WB) recently found their voting rights suspended...
E8 | What's it like to represent Myanmar's democratic resistance at the UN?
When the military in Myanmar forcefully seized power from the civilian government in February 2021, Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, the country’s permanent representative at the UN, found himself representing a coup regime.
But, just days later,...
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PhD scholar at National University of Singapore & King’s College London | from Assam | I study armed conflicts, borders, geopolitics and identities | horror cinema lover
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