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Listening to the Soil : Dr Sangeeta Jawla’s Lyrical Revolt in Clay

By merging the mystic poetry of Kabir with the gritty reality of manual labour, she invites her audience to move past the romanticised image of “folk craft” and confront...

Schisms & divides among communities need resolution, mature peacebuilding need of the hour: Manipur

The inability of the state government to separate state functionaries from indulging in identity-based politics has always been a particular failure of the government and people of Manipur in general. It is also understandable that any move by the Union government will have a bearing on the Nagas who have been a silent observer throughout. If any bipartite or tripartite solution materializes, an impending bloodshed between communities is highly possible in the state.

Love-Jihad now part of public policy in Assam

Assam CM released a set of posters which describes, amongst other measures, instructions for police officials to develop means of tackling the alleged bogey of 'Love-Jihad', read SabrangIndia's report on this state-sponsored surveillance

Behind the violence, strip-mining hills and forests for minerals: Manipur

There is clearly another environment-related sinister angle to the three-month long Manipur violent conflict that will have a huge impact on the ecologically fragile hill lands of Manipur; extractive mining on lands controlled by indigenous people (vast majority of them Christian) for high profit: mining limestone, chromite, nickel, copper, malachite, azurite, magnetite in violation of Forest Rights Act, 2006 and the statutory rights of indigenous peoples of the state

Paying homage to Biswajit Chakrabarty, Assam

From the land of Assam, came a giant of...

Pakistan: an ailing democracy

Will the people of Pakistan succeed in reclaiming democracy and saving their country from what many believe is a journey from a 'rogue state' to a 'failed state'?

Can’t be a five-trillion dollar economy at cost of rivers of blood flowing in North-East: Rupa Chinai

At the heart of the conflict are a disenchanted peoples, Kuki-Zo, Nagas and Meiteis and a society torn asunder by the cynical politics of the ‘double engine sarkar’

How just is the idea of Uniform Civil Code for India’s Adivasis and Indigenous Peoples?

The overriding concerns, voiced by Adivasis and Indigenous peoples from across India is, that under the ruse or guise of the UCC (Uniform Civil Code) the rights of Scheduled Tribes to governance and control over their lands and customs will be deviously snatched away

Controversial Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 passed by Lok Sabha without any change, all concerns ignored

Bill passed within 30 minutes amid cries of "Shame” and “We want justice” raised by opposition demanding statement on Manipur, “development” to supersede forest rights, landmark Godavarman decision of the Supreme Court on deforestation

INDIA versus Bharat’ or ‘India that is Bharat’?

BJP has been in power for the last nine...

More than 5,000 teaching & 15,000 non-teaching posts kept vacant: Education Ministry

In the ongoing Monsoon session of the Parliament, the Lok Sabha was informed that more than 20,000 posts are lying vacant across 45 central universities as on April 1, 2023

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