Elections are fascinating. The adrenaline rush of campaigning, countless debates, the anticipation of results, unpredictability, exit polls and final results. All of it. I participated …
Tribes
An Agitation For Home And Hearth In Assam
Over 2,000 people, representing about 1,486 Mising families from two villages in Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, have been demanding rehabilitation from the Assam government. Kusmita Morang …
Striking a blow against Assam’s inclusive ethos
The State’s language law points to a homogenised nationalism overtaking minority linguistic and cultural aspirations The Assam government recently decided to promulgate a law to make …
Poverty Porn and Development Communication
At the recently concluded Rusty Radiator Award given to the fundraising videos, which uses the worst kind of stereotypes, the Compassion International’s ‘The wait is …
The Journey to the city
Reasons like perennial flood, displacement by natural disasters and jobless growth have forced the people in Assam to flock the cities giving rise to increased …
The Tabooed Women: Understanding the role of women in Rituals among the Misings and the Deori communities of Assam
“Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft Before the final masterpiece” –Anonymous Fact 1: There are a very …
Undue Glorification of tribal culture…a Neo-liberal agenda
It was a year back. My friend had accompanied me to my village. It was festival time in my village and everyone in the village …
Unity is what the tribes need today
In 1950, Jaipal Munda, the ferocious leader of the Tribal groups then, commented that the history of the tribal people have been a history of …