Cover Story: Language imposition and North-East India Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines Sushanta TalukdarThe Central government’s efforts to push Hindi as the link language has the potential to expose linguistic fault lines in the north-eastern region w
Manipur Assembly election Manipur Assembly election results: Decisive mandate for the BJPSushanta TalukdarThe BJP retains power in the north-eastern State by securing a simple majority, dashing the hopes of kingmaker parties and leaving the Congress in tat
ASSEMBLY ELECTION: MANIPUR Manipur Assembly election: Territory in focus Sushanta Talukdar Territorial integrity is the dominant election issue in Manipur, but in Naga-majority constituencies, ruling and opposition parties speak of developme
Squeezing a river dryText by Sushanta Talukdar Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar The Kulsi river in Assam is a habitat of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, but illegal sand mining and the existence and construction of bridges ar
Environment Threats to the Kulsi river in AssamText by Sushanta Talukdar Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar The Kulsi river in Assam is a habitat of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, but illegal sand mining and the existence and construction of bridges ar
ASSEMBLY ELECTION: MANIPUR Manipur Assembly election: A battle of wits Sushanta TalukdarThe BJP has fielded its candidates in all the 60 seats while the Congress forms a six-party alliance to contest the two-phase Assembly election. The N
Assembly Elections Manipur Assembly elections: Multi-cornered contest Sushanta TalukdarThe Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to come back to power in Manipur on its own steam after a rather turbulent five years of depending on coalition p
Interview: Sanjoy Hazarika Sanjoy Hazarika: ‘AFSPA should be revoked’Sushanta TalukdarInterview with Sanjoy Hazarika, political commentator and author.
Oting massacre Between the law and the lawless: Civilian killings in Nagaland provoke outrage, calls to revoke AFSPA intensifySushanta Talukdar in Guwahati The indiscriminate killing of 13 people in Mon district of Nagaland by the Indian Army sparks popular anger in the State, strengthens the north-easter
INTER-STATE DISPUTE Fragile peace between Assam and Mizoram in inter-State boundary disputeSushanta Talukdar Assam and Mizoram agree to keep their forces away from the inter-State boundary even as they harden their positions over the ownership of the Inner Li
Assam Population policy Assam moots polarising cattle and population policiesSushanta Talukdarin GuwahatiBy implementing the two-child norm strictly and seeking to regulate beef consumption through a new Bill, the BJP government in Assam entrenches itself
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
