Mizoram
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
Suraj Gogoi | Jun 02, 2023
The NRC’s spillover effect
Neighbouring states in the Northeast follow in the footsteps of Assam.
Suraj Gogoi and Rohini Sen | Oct 14, 2019
State of exclusion
The Chakmas in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh continue to be victims of ethnic conflict.
Suraj Gogoi and Shyamal Chakma | May 13, 2016
The fall of kohhran swarkar in Mizoram
What the repeal of prohibition means for current power dynamics and good governance.
N William Singh | Aug 26, 2014
BIMSTEC, Myanmar and India’s Northeast
BIMSTEC provides an opportunity for India to deliver development and peace to its Northeastern region. This must be seized.
Rupak Bhattacharjee | Jul 24, 2014
The Gorkhalis of Mizoram
A small community of Gorkhalis fights for rights and recognition in ethnocentric Mizoram.
N William Singh | Aug 08, 2012
Uprooted in the Northeast
The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession.
Sanjib Baruah | Mar 01, 2003
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