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‘Want NRC, But Not at the Cost of Health’: Long Travel, Accident Mar NRC Reverification Hearings in Assam, NEWS18

NEWS18 / Published on 06 August 2019 Thousands appeared for reverification hearings on Monday in Golaghat from Sontoli, Kalatoli, Hatisolapam and adjoining villages under the Goroimari circle in Assam. Guwahati: Anwar Hussain waited from early morning for his turn at a Nagrik Seva Kendra (NSK) in Golaghat district where he was urgently summoned for a reverification […]

Northeast people battle racism amid coronavirus pandemic, The Week

The Week28 March 2020 Even as China battles global Sinophobia over COVID-19—since the disease was first reported from Wuhan—in India, people of the northeast are facing increasing harassment and violence over their looks. Kiren Rijiju, minister for sports and youth affairs, who hails from Arunachal Pradesh, has asked state governments to sensitise residents against such […]

Ramachandra Guha: Why Ram Mohun Roy’s colonial-era petition for press freedom is still relevant, Scroll

Scroll 21 June 2020 The Indian press is less free, more vulnerable to state intimidation than at any time since the Emergency. In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government […]