Sanjib Baruah
The Mongolian fringe
The exodus of Northeasterners from a number of major Indian cities underlines a reality that the Indian national elites would rather not talk about
Jan 14, 2013
Upending ULFA
Surprise negotiations with ULFA aside, the Indian government’s effort to contain and control insurgency in Assam is unlikely to meet the hopes and expectations that have energised the peace process.
Oct 01, 2011
Uprooted in the Northeast
The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession.
Mar 01, 2003
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In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility
Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too
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In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man
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When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
