[Assam] Sanjib Baruah on Kakopathar

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060220/asp/opinion/story_5850159.asp The Telegraph (Calcutta) Monday, February 20, 2006 HOW THE STALEMATE MACHINE WORKS Sanjib Baruah The obvious lesson of Kakopathar is that counter-insurgency operations and negotiations towards peace do not go together

[Assam] Poaching in Kaziranga for Bin Laden

Thought this report in the London Guardian would be of interest. Sanjib Baruah http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,2073168,00.html?gusrc=rssfeed=1 Poaching for Bin Laden In the jungles of India, local animal trappers have a new breed of client: Islamic militants using the trade in rare

[Assam] Right to Information in Assam

RTI FINDINGS LEAD TO VIOLENT THREATS IN ASSAM Guwahati, May 20, 2007: Akhil Gogoi of Golaghat town in Assam has been a beleaguered man for more than a year now. His life under threat, he has been practically forced to go underground following multiple applications under the RTI Act that

[Assam] Protests against Ulfa in Assam

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070612/asp/opinion/story_7908619.asp NEVER A MOMENT TO BREATHE EASY Sanjib Baruah Telegraph (Calcutta) June 12, 2007 After yet another bloodbath carried out by Ulfa, Sanjib Baruah ponders whether negotiations can still hold the magic answer in Assam

[Assam] Impasse in India

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS VOLUME 54, NUMBER 11 JUNE 28, 2007 Review Impasse in India By Pankaj Mishra The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha C. Nussbaum Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 403 pp., $29.95 Last summer Foreign Affairs, Time, Newsweek,

[Assam] New Publication on Northeast India

by Sanjib Baruah PDF Format A number of armed conflicts smolder in Indias Northeastern border region. For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began in the 1950s, is one of the worlds oldest unresolved armed conflicts. With its controversial human rights record and sluggish

[Assam] Migrants expelled from Arunachal Pradesh

The Telegraph (Guwahati edition) Thursday, July 26, 2007 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070726/asp/northeast/story_8100239.asp# A migrants fight for survival GUEST COLUMN -SANJIB BARUAH The name Jamir Ali is perhaps fictional. But his story, recounted in the 2005 Arunachal Pradesh Human

Re: [Assam] Post Frontier Blues

that the magic of development will answer all our problems. Good wishes, Sanjib Baruah On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Chan Mahanta wrote: It seldom happens. Let us see, whether the suggestions in the book come handy to the Rulers or not. *** That is a function of how the citizenry , which would be your

[Assam] India's middle class failure

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/printarticle.php?id=9776 PROSPECT Magazine Issue 138 , September 2007 India's middle class failure by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad India's 200m-strong middle class is the most economically dynamic group on the planet, but is largely uninterested in politics or

[Assam] A New Documentary on Kashmir

There is a provocative new documentary film on Kashmir. The following review in Outlook magazine may be of interest to Assamnet. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20071004fname=ananyasid=1pn=1 October 12 2007. Azadi: Theirs And Ours By the logic of the Indian state, India is free

[Assam] India's Myanmar Policy

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071015/asp/opinion/story_8418724.asp The Telegraph (Calcutta), Monday October 15, 2007 Monday, October 15, 2007 EAST WITH BITS LEFT OUT --- A more imaginative Myanmar policy would do India good SANJIB BARUAH Most countries do public diplomacy abroad. In its

[Assam] Adivasi Politics in Assam

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071211/asp/opinion/story_8654412.asp The Telegraph, Calcutta. Tuesday, December 11, 2007 READING THE TEA LEAVES - The understanding of tribal status must be rid of colonial errors SANJIB BARUAH After the mayhem in Guwahati around the adivasi rally of November 24

[Assam] 20th anniversary

grown: both in numbers and in geographical distribution? Good wishes, Sanjib Baruah ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

[Assam] Assam, Don’t Hold Your Breath

Forbes India Magazine, 06 May, 2011 http://business.in.com/article/special/assam-dont-hold-your-breath/24462/1 Assam, Don’t Hold Your Breath In spite of successful elections, it’s too early to declare that the troubled state is on the road to recovery by Sanjib Baruah | May 2, 2011

[Assam] Indira Goswami Obituary by Aruni Kashyap

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2672271.ece The Hindu, November 30, 2011 A beloved daughter of Assam, writer, peacemaker Aruni Kashyap Indira Goswami, who died on Tuesday aged 69, was among India's most celebrated contemporary writers whose work spoke boldly and

[Assam] Lower Subansiri and the Politics of Expertise

From Assam Tribune, January 22, 2012 http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=jan2212,6,417,108,999,855 Lower Subansiri and the Politics of Expertise Dr. Sanjib Baruah The mobilization of a variety of highly credentialed experts to settle the controversy over the Lower Subansiri

[Assam] LC Jain, Assam and Mega Dams

Assam Tribune, February 5th 2012. http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/epaper.asp?id=feb0512/Page6 L.C Jain, Assam and mega dams Dr. Sanjib Baruah There are often references to the World Commission on Dams [WCD] and its 2001 report Dams and Development in the discussions on Lower Subansiri

[Assam] Dams and Livelihoods

The Assam Tribune, March 11, 2012 http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=mar1112,6,420,903,660,933 Dams and Livelihoods Dr. Sanjib Baruah A major focus of the debate on dams has been the safety of large dams in earthquake prone Northeast India. By comparison, much less

Re: [Assam] [assam] The Schoool where every teacher/student has an iPad

This reminds me of a New York Times report last year of a Silicon Valley private school - with children whose parents are in the high tech world -- that does not allow computers. I especially liked the argument of one of the parents: “At Google and all these places, we make technology as

[Assam] Dam Protests -- Reports from Lakhimpur-Dhemaji

Priyanka Borpujari has done some excellent reporting of the situation in Lakhimpur-Dhemaji area in the past few days involving the controversy over dams. Some of you may be interested. Sanjib Baruah http://priyanka-borpujari.blogspot.in/2012/05/damning-dam-protesters.htm http://priyanka

Re: [Assam] [asom] Text of the poem sagar dekhisa by poet Devakanta Barua

The exchange about 'Xagor Dekhisa reminded me of a translation of the poem that I did long time ago. Thought some of you may be interested. Good wishes, Sanjib Baruah HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE SEA? Devakanta Barooah Have you ever seen the sea? No? Never? Nor have I. I

[Assam] Whose Riveer is it Anyway?

Here is the link to a long article “Whose River is it Anyway? Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas.” Some of you may be interested. It will be available free on the website of the journal Economic and Political Weekly for four weeks.

[Assam] New York Times on the Exodus of Northeasterners

New York Times, Aug 18, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/world/asia/panic-radiates-from-indian-state-of-assam.html?pagewanted=all Panic Seizes India as a Region’s Strife Radiates By JIM YARDLEY BRAJAKHAL, India — Like a fever, fear has spread across India this week, from big cities

[Assam] Seminar Magazine issue on 'Assam-Unstable Peace'

...@vsnl.com. The December issue includes the following: THE PROBLEM Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York CONNECTED HISTORIES Yasmin Saikia, Professor of History, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, ‘RETURNS’ TO THE PAST: VIOLENCE, COUNTER-MEMORY

[Assam] Seminar issue on Assam-Unstable Peace

://www.india-seminar.com/ SEMINAR #640 December 2012 ASSAM: UNSTABLE PEACE a symposium on politics, society, culture and the challenges of reconciliation • THE PROBLEM Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York • CONNECTED HISTORIES Yasmin Saikia, Professor

[Assam] New York Times 'For Young Readers, a Chance to Work Off Library Debt'

This New York Times story with an Assamese journalist Priyanka Borpujari's byline might interest some of you. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/for-young-readers-a-chance-to-work-off-library-debt/ ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org

[Assam] Diwali for seven people deported to China from Assam

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/51-years-after-war-it-is-diwali-for-seven-people-deported-to-china-from-assam/1190511/0 Indian Express, November 3rd. 2013 Samudra Gupta Kashyap : Makum, Sun Nov 03 2013, 06:15 hrs 51 years after war, it is Diwali for seven people deported to China from Assam

[Assam] Race in India

Al Jazeera got me to comment on the race debate in India after the killing of an Arunachali student in Delhi. The piece may be of interest. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/02/student-death-india-racism-debat-20142197266693973.html SB

[Assam] Rajdhani to Arunachal and the Inner Line

This may be of interest to some of you. http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/dividing-line/ Indian Express, October 3, 2014 Dividing line By: Sanjib Baruah Northeast policy should dispense with archaic systems like the inner line There is a deep anachronism at the heart

[Assam] Our floods, their floods

Asian Age, October 15, 2014 http://www.asianage.com/sanjib-baruah-843 Our floods, their floods Sanjib Baruah There was a time when the charge of neglect by the central government was the staple of Northeast India’s politics. That is no longer the case. The region now features prominently

[Assam] Assamese woman wants to meet her Chinese parents deported during 1962 War

Indian Express, May 19th 2015 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/assamese-woman-wants-to-meet-her-chinese-parents-deported-during-1962-war/ Assamese woman wants to meet her Chinese parents deported during 1962 War Leong Linchi has been able to establish contact with her

Re: [Assam] Looking for right information

. Sanjib Baruah - Original Message - From: "Wahid Saleh - Indiawijzer" <w.sa...@indiawijzer.nl> To: supportachild-as...@yahoogroups.com Cc: "Assamnet" <assam@assamnet.org> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 5:33:48 AM Subject: [Assam] Looking for right inform

Re: [Assam] Looking for right information

. Hope all is well, Sanjib Baruah “Majuli is surrounded by a complex geological structure of sedimentary formation and tertiary sandstone in the Upper Brahmaputra Valley in northeastern part of India. The landscape is characterized in geo-tectonic discourse as vulnerable and particularly

[Assam] Assam Elections

This may be of interest: New election, old scars Veterans of the Assam Movement now fight polls. But the bitterness — and the issues — linger on. http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/assam-assembly-polls-2016-elections-assam-movement/