Tagged: Assam

Kamakhya, Brahmaputra and A Monsoon Outreach

or…Changing India – Step IV In a few days’ time, I will be making my way to the land of seven sisters…one of my favourite regions of our beautiful country.  I will arrive with...

Secular Harit Desh – Part II

This is a sequel to Sanjay’s earlier post: Secular Harit Desh. In this short post, Sanjay draws our attention to a couple of interesting developments that – in his view – are likely to...

Jihadi attack in Assam?

A dozen bombs, at least fifty dead and more than three hundred injured… The government remains clueless… “It is very early to make a conclusion but ULFA has a history of triggering serial blasts,” Assam’s...

Nanopost of the day…

…in which I get annoyed by Praful Bidwai‘s gratuitous reference to “ethnic cleansing” and “communal clashes” while conveniently forgetting Assam where these words have taken on an entirely different meaning…and the scale of human misery has...

The not so “communal” clashes in Assam

For the last few days, I have been following the twists and turns of the “clashes” in Assam with great interest…Not least because I have a very strong personal bond with the region but...