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Fragile Cocoons
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July 2010
Indigenes and interlopers
By: Sanjib Baruah
The need for the Northeast to move toward a regime recognising the rights and humanity of all, be they natives or settlers, as equal.
After 69 days
By: Kishalay Bhattacharjee
Into the Manipur tangle, where a record-long economic blockade has only sharpened the polarisation.
Beyond ethnicity and territoriality
By: Yengkhom Jilangamba
The standoff in Manipur demonstrates the politics of ethnic exclusionism in the Northeast, and New Delhi’s collusion in the process.
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Valley versus hill
By: Dolly Kikon
The Imphal government’s inability to regard all the state’s population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.
Dakhar still
By: Dinesh Wagle
The Gorkha-Khasi conflict indicates not only the level of inter-community distance, but a border conflict between two states of the Indian Northeast.
The stories of our hills
By: Ronid Chingangbam
Analysis
The massacres at two Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore is the result of anti-Ahmadi sentiment fanned by religious extremists and allowed by a compromised state and the silent support of political parties.
The massive upward revision of India’s poverty line is an important departure, but the whole process itself is still too rigid.
Report
In an atmosphere of fear, simple entertainment has become a luxury difficult to obtain in Manipur.
Travails of the new Darjeeling satrap
Failure to act on the murder of opposition leader Madan Tamang reflects the political calculations involved in maintaining the tripartite talks on the Gorkhaland question.
The political considerations behind the evolving definition of Gorkhaland
Opinion
The fascination with ‘ethnic chic’ in nomenclature reveals much about the cultural insecurities of Pakistan’s art world today.
The massacres at two Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore is the result of anti-Ahmadi sentiment fanned by religious extremist...
Into the Manipur tangle, where a record-long economic blockade has only sharpened the polarisation.
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