topic: Assam

The Personal is Political in Assam's Insurgency
August 3, 2020
How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, edited by Aruni Kashyap, is an effective acquaintance with the three decades of insurgency in the...
blog
Burning the Witches
July 24, 2014
Originally published in Countercurrents . Bihurama Ganju, a resident of Gurunjuli village along the Assam-Arunchal border, was beaten to...
Reviews
Bearing Literary Witness
May 7, 2014
Violence founds and preserves the state. Monopoly over the legal use of violence is, Max Weber reminds us, indispensable to all modern...
retrospectives
Boranga Yan (Song of the Forest)
February 5, 2014
Translator’s Preface Raktim Sarma was a former junior commissioned officer of the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam), the most visible...