Game Changer: Peace Bonanza and Development – Modi’s trump card for Assam
A tryst with peace, destiny and development. A festive atmosphere prevailed in Kokrajhar to celebrate the Bodo accord. The All Bodo Student’s Union (ABSU) and NDFB organised a bike rally and native residents More...
Why Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 must become a Law
In 1947 India was partitioned into two and Pakistan and Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan) came into existence. The partition was not just an administrative renaming of land. It caused millions of Hindus to become More...
Temples and Treats of Assam
We landed at Guwahati in the afternoon, an hour journey from Kolkata by air. The Brahmaputra is a grand river splitting Assam roughly in the middle forming upper and lower Assam. Kamarupa, the ancient Assam kingdom, More...
Looking Back At Linguistic Prejudice Against ‘Hindi Medium’ Prime Minister Modi
Note to the readers: On 26 May 2017, the third anniversary of the Modi Government, PM Modi was in Assam where he inaugurated India’s longest bridge and also laid the foundation for an AIIMS and an AIRI for the More...
Will Assam be Muslim majority in the next 40 years?
This article has been co-authored by Shanmukh, Saswati Sarkar, Dikgaj and Aparna Assam has seen rapid change in religious demography, since the beginning of the twentieth century. From 14% minorities in 1901, the More...
Census 2011 Religious Data: Truth About Muslim Growth Rate
The recently released data of religious census is an eye opener for many. While Hindus have first time been enumerated below 80%, Muslims have registered the highest growth rate in the last decade with 24.6%. This More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus: Part 3
Read the previous parts here. III. The North At this point, we can see the figures for the northern region, consisting of Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh., which will obviously be different from the two regions More...
Subramanian Swamy: A Hindu fighter everyone fears
The various reactions to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy’s remark that mosques are mere buildings are typical: the man is a bigot, communal, divisive, etc. And again, typically, nobody has refuted More...
Lachit Borphukan must become a household name
The famed historian and scholar Sitaram Goel once stated: Hindu Dharmashãstras have enjoined upon every Hindu to repay according to his or her capacity the rishi-riNa, that is, the debt we owe to our seers and More...
Remembering a forgotten saint: Srimanta Sankardev
Often when we talk of national integration and unity, there are voices which state that it is incorrect to assume that India is one nation. The reason given is many residents of certain states may feel themselves More...