Topic: North East
Being excluded from NRC affects every stage of life: Assam scholar Abdul Kalam Azad
Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He is working on his Ph.D. thesis on Assam’s citizenship crisis at Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Axone : Marinating racism through slow cooking diversity
Nicholas Kharkongor’s Axone/ Akhuni is a classic take on discrimination against the North-eastern community. In the opening scene the protagonists are in a hurry to procure the Akhuni to prepare a special dish for their best friend’s wedding.
A ‘dam’ned history of development: Horrific track record of dams in North-East India
The latest assault on the rights and resources of indigenous people in the North-East comes as an aggressive push for building the 3097 MW Etalin Hydropower project in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh.
I want people to be aware of racism like one I’ve encountered: DU student who was called ‘Coronavirus’
"They threw the balloons only at us, even though they were male students, aiming at our private parts. They saw that I had Mongoloid features after I took off my pollution mask. After that, they screamed, ‘Aye, coronavirus! I was shocked,” said one of the Northeast students from Hansraj College, Delhi University.
