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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali

Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village

Implementation of FRA 2006 must become a Political Programme: Public Hearing

Public Hearing records grave incidents of atrocities on forest...

NRC: No Further Re-Verification

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India...

Faiz’s poems reverberate contemporary pathos: Turbulent and marked with historical changes

Faiz Ahmed Faiz – the poet, teacher, editor, freedom-fighter,...

As Real Incomes Improved, Farmers’ Children Became Less Likely To Take Up Farming

Bengaluru: Although income mobility improved country-wide in the seven...

Language Games of Assam: The Mainstream vs the Margins

Recently, in a piece written in an Assam local...

Sweeping Sanitation Workers’ Issues Under the Rug

In this episode of ‘Khoj Khabar’, senior journalist Bhasha...

MP KK Ragesh presents shocking figures about public funded universities of India, in Parliament

While discussing the The Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2019...

Call to CMs against Evictions of Forest Dwellers

After the February 13 order, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...

499 Mumbai Buildings On Same High-Risk List As One That Collapsed, Trapping Scores

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