Beacon of Hope: A Gendered Homage to the Iron-willed Woman of Assam: Birubala Rabha – Meghna Dutta
It’s been almost a decade since my maternal aunt forwarded an article on Witch hunting and its menace which is…
It’s been almost a decade since my maternal aunt forwarded an article on Witch hunting and its menace which is…
On 6 July, 20222 the Assam government decided to declare five Muslim subgroups – Goria, Moria, Syed, Deshi and Julha…
Introduction: The northeast Indian state of Assam is rippled with a sense of contested identity fueled by a majoritarian ethnocentric…
Each year, the pivotal movements in Assam have fantasized about land, racialized-immigrant bodies or ethnic vote banks. Politics surrounding the…
Sanjay Barbora’s book Homelands Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict, and Migration in Assam (published by Oxford University Press in 2022), is an…
Jahnu Barua, a celebrated and critically acclaimed Assamese film-maker, in a recent interview on being asked about the killing of…
There have been many debates in history about the nature of education and the purpose of knowledge production. The nature…
A very interesting conversation on teaching Sociology in Assam, a region which is diverse and doesn’t find much mention in…
Image source: When a Bong Cooks (https://whenabongcooks.com) Food is central to our social identities and forms an indispensable part of…
The human body experiences pain. According to an article published in Nature, pain happens when “neural sensors in the skin,…