Assam

Red Shadow over Assam

Rahul Pandita

The Maoist ‘look east’ strategy has dangerous implications

A Town is Born

Jyotirmoy Talukdar

How Pathsala became one of Assam’s major education hubs in the space of a decade

An Abduction That Changed Assamese Literature

Aruni Kashyap

Writer Indira Goswami made a significant literary contribution to Assam’s peace process. It was through her efforts that writing by militants, initially shunned by the people, gained a central place in the Assamese imagination

If It’s Size That Matters

Raul Irani

Thirty dwarves in Assam dream big with their theatre group

The Illiteracy of Influx Theorists

Anil Bhatia

Those who blame Assam’s troubles on mass migration from Bangladesh don’t see that it defies simple economic logic

This Was No ‘Riot’

arindam

A week of madness in Assam

Method in the Massacre

Rahul Pandita

A week of madness in Assam

The Long and Winding Road

Ankur Rahman

Ankur Rahman, along with his brother Rodin and their friend, Akhup Khom, push the idea of slow travel to its limit and decide to walk from Tezpur in Assam to Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh—a good 340 km away. Asked why, Ankur’s answer is “Why not?”