The crisis in Manipur is based in the Imphal government’s inability to regard all the state’s population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.

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 standoff in Manipur demonstrates the politics of ethnic exclusionism in the Northeast, and New Delhi’s collusion in the process.

Into the Manipur tangle, where a record-long economic blockade has only sharpened the polarisation.

As the agricultural frontier advances, the Northeast needs to move toward a regime that recognises the rights and humanity of all, be they natives or settlers, as equal.

Myths and misperceptions persist in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, as the third round of violence strikes since the signing of the 1997 CHT accord.

The political considerations behind the evolving definition of Gorkhaland

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.

In an atmosphere of fear, simple entertainment has become a luxury difficult to obtain in Manipur.

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.em /em

The massive upward revision of India’s poverty line is an important departure, but the whole process itself is still too rigid.

The fascination with ‘ethnic chic’ in nomenclature reveals much about the cultural insecurities of Pakistan’s art world today.

The absurd condemnation of Western classical music as ‘alien’ led to its calamitous decline in India, which is only now being reversed.

Strikes and blockades mean different things to different people – but for children during the Assam Agitation, they were just an extended holiday.

The recent evictions in Colombo have precedent – and larger significance.

India’s leading – and perhaps only – opera composer is from Meghalaya.