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Kaustubh Deka

Debates around NRC show the common thread of trauma that binds the people of Assam

We have failed to understand the delicate place of history in the schemas of justice.

Kaustubh Deka
· Sep 03, 2019 · 09:00 am
Counterview: Tracing the roots of Assam’s NRC politics to the 1947 ‘Sylhet partition’ is misleading

‘How the British annexation of Assam in 1826 led to its tryst with demographic engineering’ would be a better description.

Kaustubh Deka
· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:00 am
Rishang Keishing (1920-2017): Understanding the legacy of Manipur’s longest serving chief minister

The four-term Manipur chief minister was often criticised for having a contradictory stance. But he actually had a position that was uniquely his own.

Kaustubh Deka
· Aug 30, 2017 · 10:30 am