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Assam
The Poacher Who Cared
Joynal Abedin
Joynal Abedin was a hunter and poacher. But two accidents changed his life: an unborn buffalo calf’s untimely death and a forest officer’s squashing by a rogue elephant. He has now dedicated his life to wildlife conservation in Assam’s Dibru Saikhowa forest
Where the Forests Have No Trees
Of the total 60,000 claims filed under the Forest Rights Act in Assam, nearly 30,000 came from a single district. Little wonder, then, that the administration controls less than a third of Sonitpur’s forests. While no political party minds legalising this mass encroachment in the Bodo heartland, the fate of the wilderness hangs by a 2009 High Court order.
The 1962 jailing of Chinese Indians
Recent revelations of India’s official attitude towards people of Chinese origin within its borders after the Indo-China war are simply too shocking to ignore.
The States of Marriage
A family feud leads to a dispute between the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments.
The Tantrik Town
It seems like any other little town, until practitioners of wizardry and sorcery start turning up in their benevolent avatar as magic healers.
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