To be a college student in love in a small town presented its own set of problems. Not the least of all is the sheer lack of any privacy in a small place where everybody seemed to know everyone.
A welcome Bihu break—song, dance, revelry and pleasing mekhela-sador—after weeks of verbal poison rain. But on the other side, the mystery will unravel. Who will win Assam?
The CAA-NRC gambit didn’t go the way the BJP would have liked in Assam, so that familiar tactic is back in play: a perfume baron is in the crosshair of some choice stink darts.
Will Congress’s attempt to rouse anti-CAA sentiments translate into votes in this highly polarised state?
Newcomers bring fresh ammo, new strategy to the poll battlefield in the BJP-ruled Northeast state
BJP pushes for two-in-a-row. Congress, new regional parties hope to cash in on anti-CAA sentiments.
Out of 2,729 people, only 99 Bangladeshis were granted Indian citizenship in the last four years—and only six in 2020. That's what the BJP will tell Assam. Yes, elections are due soon.
Northeast natives face racist slurs, assaults across India. They have been guilty of reverse-racism in their own states, writes journalist Anupam Bordoloi
Is Paresh Barua ready for talks after a four-decade struggle?
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