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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicAssam Ethnicity

Topic: Assam Ethnicity

Jadunath Sarkar fellows hit publishing big league. They reimagine India’s civilisational story

The graduation ceremony for Jadunath Sarkar fellows took place at Delhi’s IIC. It was attended by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and economist Dr. Shamika Ravi.

Finding the smoking gun that proved intel before Nellie massacre was ignored, covered up

Assam policeman's wireless message before Nellie massacre was ignored. How we came to know of its existence and then found it is the story we are telling now.

Bloodstained road to Nellie: Trail of destruction I saw after the 1983 massacre in Assam

I was there looking for trouble to report. And in that awful fortnight, when Indira Gandhi decided to force an election nobody wanted in Assam, you didn’t have to go looking for trouble.

Assam’s wave of ethnic anxieties now just an undercurrent. That’s what Modi-Shah achieved

In Assam, the issue of ethnicity has receded into the background. People seem more at ease talking about what every voter does — roads, welfare and even religion.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.