Guwahati: The word “transgender” – or trans – is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned to us at birth. Although the word “transgender” and our modern definition of it only came into […]
At midday June 27, wails and shrieks pierced the moist air in Rowmari Chapori, a village on a sand bar in the Brahmaputra river, inhabited by Bengali Muslims, in Assam’s Darrang district. The body of 17-year-old Noor Nehar Begum had […]
Almost three years after she was wrongly arrested, a 59-year-old woman was on Wednesday released from a detention camp for foreigners in western Assam’s Kokrajhar. By Rahul Karmakar Her freedom came less than 24 hours after officials started the process […]
A whopping additional 1,02,462 people have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), released on June 26. Explaining the exclusion, the NRC authority said, “The persons whose names appear in the Additional Draft Exclusion list are those persons […]
BARPETA, ASSAM: Complaints were filed against a little-known right-wing organisation on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a group of Muslim men in Assam and forcing them to utter slogans “Jai Shri Ram” and “Pakistan Murdabad” on Tuesday. Two FIRs were filed […]
North Lakhimpur: Amidst the election battle afflicted with communal undertones, the reports of a Hindu family donating their land for a Muslim burial ground brings a sense of relief that our foundational basis of harmony and fraternity yet exists. Breaking […]
Activists say 40 million Muslims and 30 million Dalits not on electoral rolls, raising fears of targeted suppression. The country’s election commission says nearly 900 million voters are eligible to vote in the seven-phase voting, which started on April 11 […]
In Assam, the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Bill have reopened ethnic and communal divides. For this series, Arunabh Saikia and Ipsita Chakravarty travelled across the state to find out how it affects voter choices. Two years ago, […]
GUWAHATI: Prominent Dalit and youth leader, and MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will curb all the basic rights under democracy if it is voted back to power. Mevani was in Guwahati to take […]
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the Triple Talaq Act come under cloud Pluralism and diversity are the strengths of modern democracy. Our constitution states that there should be no discrimination on the grounds of one’s language, culture, belief and gender. […]
