The Assam connection of the Mediterranean in antiquity - Cleopatra in a Muga stola?
Dec 14, 2025Muga is the silk unique to Assam. It is produced nowhere else, and it has a Geographical Identity (GI) mark nowadays, to signify authenticity. It is distinct from Chinese, or any other silk found anywhere else. Though it was earlier believed that silk cultivation arrived in the Brahmaputra valley in the 2nd century before Christ, newer evidence shows that silk was used even in the Indus valley civilization, 2000 years before Christ, and microscopic and biochemical analysis of fabric from the Indus valley civilization site of Chanhu-Daru (Sind, Pakistan) shows the presence of Antherea Assamensis, or Assam silk.
How did Kukis in Imphal Amass Thousands of Crores?
Dec 14, 2025If the recent claims circulating in social media sources are indeed accurate—that Kuki-owned properties in the Imphal alone were valued at an astonishing Rs. 4335 crore before the unfortunate Manipur violence—it paints an inspiring picture of extraordinary growth achieved by minority Kuki groups, who are listed in the Schedule Tribe categories of Manipur.
Was 1966 the "First Attack on Parliament"? Why Historical Precision Matters
Dec 14, 2025In periods of sharp political disagreement, history is often made to work overtime. It is pressed into arguments, stretched across analogies, and sometimes asked to confirm conclusions that were already decided. One such claim, now gaining circulation, is that the violent cow-slaughter agitation of November 1966 constituted the “first attack on the Indian Parliament.” It is a compelling phrase, the kind that sounds settled the moment it is spoken. Yet it rests on a serious confusion—one that collapses fundamentally different kinds of events into a single, misleading category.
The New Face of Consumerism in India: From Acquisition to Accountability
Dec 14, 2025Indian consumers are prioritising responsible and ethical buying, influencing brands to adopt sustainable practices. This shift marks a move towards quality and accountability in consumption across the country
Music and the Politics of Resistance: Zubeen Garg and A Global Overview
Dec 13, 2025Music has played a vital role in political movements and resistances throughout history. It is observed that songs with powerful lyrics often become anthem for political resistances that motivate people to take actions, sometimes leading to major political changes. Being a student, researcher and teacher in the discipline of Political Science I have realized an invisible yet existential void between music and politics throughout the years. In the name of soft power, music has always been kept in a convenient distant from the ‘hard’ politics by political establishments across the globe.
A homeland torn asunder: Why India must fulfill its historic debt to the Kuki people
Dec 13, 2025In the grand narrative of India’s freedom struggle, some battles are etched in gold, while others are left to fade in the sepia of forgotten archives. The story of the Kuki people is one such poignant erasure—a saga of unparalleled resistance against colonialism and steadfast loyalty to the idea of India, met not with integration but with indifference and fragmentation.
Assam thunderstruck: How Post Malone’s sonic storm marked a new dawn for the Northeast
Dec 13, 2025When global music superstar Post Malone walked onto the stage in Assam, the roar that followed was not just applause for an artist—it was a declaration that the Northeast has risen to claim its space on the world’s cultural map. The concert, spectacular in scale and emotional in its resonance, now stands as a defining moment in Assam’s cultural transformation. It symbolised not only the arrival of a global icon but also the emergence of a region quietly but confidently asserting its identity before the world.
Beyond the Gun: Governance in the Northeast
Dec 13, 2025Northeast India faces governance challenges balancing security and development. Authorities work with communities to ensure inclusive growth and peace
Why Manipur should be Ground Zero for India’s 'Detect, Delete, Deport'?
Dec 13, 2025Manipur is central to India's efforts to curb illegal immigration through the Detect, Delete, Deport policy. Enhanced border control and agency coordination aim to secure the region and support local communities
Mini kingdoms on the brink: Manipur’s assault on Kuki chieftainship risks a northeastern uprising
Dec 12, 2025The Kuki-Zo Council’s (KZC) December 1 thunderbolt—objecting to “renewed attempts” to activate the Act—isn’t tribal intransigence; it’s a firewall against cultural genocide. In a state where 4,700 homes and 386 churches lie in ashes from May 2023’s inferno, forcing chiefs to relinquish lands without consent could detonate a revolution unseen in India’s delicate Northeast frontier.
President Murmu's Prayer at Govindajee Temple and Beyond Was A Plea for Manipur's Healing
Dec 12, 2025In the sacred precincts of Shri Shri Govindajee Temple in Imphal, on December 12, 2025, a moment of profound spiritual resonance unfolded during President Droupadi Murmu's two-day visit to Manipur. As India's first tribal President, whose life beautifully intertwines the nature-worshipping Sarna faith of her Santhal heritage, practicing Hinduism, and the meditative path of Brahma Kumaris, she approached the sanctum with deep humility.
Census vs. Fiction: How a debunked ‘illegal immigrant’ narrative fueled Manipur’s campaign against Kuki-Zo
Dec 12, 2025A narrative long dismissed as demographic “concern” is now exposing itself as the central engine driving Manipur’s spiralling violence. What happens when a claim disproven by the state’s own census becomes the justification for mass displacement—and the cornerstone of a political project reshaping an entire region?
NHRC finally says it out loud: A National Highway cannot be an ethnic border
Dec 11, 2025For thirty months, a national highway in India functioned like an international border—until a single citizen’s complaint forced the system to wake up. Now, with a deadline ticking toward January 4, the question is whether Manipur will finally reclaim its own road.
The Price of Your Battery: Youth, Rare Earths and Escalating Violence in Africa
Dec 11, 2025Every time we swipe, scroll, or recharge, we tap into a hidden global struggle. Few realise that Africa’s young miners are paying the highest price for the world’s clean-energy ambitions.
Towards a Win-Win Strategy for Meitei and Kuki in Manipur
Dec 11, 2025The only lasting way out of Manipur’s agony is a genuine win-win settlement between the Meitei and Kuki communities. Yet every honest observer knows that such a settlement will never emerge from the offices of politicians, the bunkers of militants, or the press statements of civil society organisations.
Rooted in Language, Soaring in Learning: NEP-2020 and the Northeast
Dec 10, 2025For decades, schools in the Northeast imposed languages foreign to children’s daily lives. English or dominant regional languages were treated as necessary for mobility, while tribal languages—Mising, Karbi, Tiwa, Rabha, Dimasa, Ao, Konyak, and Khasi—were ignored or sidelined.
A Cry from the Ashes: How India’s Manipur Betrays the Kuki-Zo on World Human Rights Day
Dec 10, 2025Over 60,000 Kuki-Zo people—indigenous tribes and mostly Christians—mark it not with celebration, but in the suffocating squalor of relief camps. They are haunted by the ghosts of over 300 torched villages and a relentless campaign of unpunished atrocities.
Vande Mataram: Revered, Not a Political Plaything
Dec 09, 2025Vande Mataram is not simply a patriotic song; it is a historical emblem that accompanied India’s struggle for freedom. Penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the late 19th century, it was sung at countless rallies, protests, and marches, infusing courage and hope into ordinary citizens who shared little but a vision of an independent India. Figures such as Subhas Chandra Bose and Aurobindo Ghose drew inspiration from its verses, and it became a unifying anthem across linguistic, religious, and regional divides.
RSS - A Century Of Service
Dec 09, 2025The history of the birth and growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is in many respects ,unique .Founded in 1925 by Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar with a handful of young men ,the sangh has now spread to nearly more than 80,000 daily 'Shakhas' are conducted or at frequent intervals leaving no part of the country untouched
Between Grief and Glory: What Post Malone in Guwahati Says About Us
Dec 09, 2025The Guwahati of 2001 was afraid. Not in any way we'd admit, of course. We dressed our fear in the language of cultural preservation, wrapped it in the legitimacy of post-insurgency trauma, called it pride. But underneath all those student protests and editorial think-pieces was a city that wasn't sure it could survive contact with the wider world.
A Tangled Border, A Fractured State: How a Fence in Manipur Deepens India's Divisions
Dec 09, 2025Last week, in the remote hills of Manipur’s Chandel district, unidentified individuals cut through 100 to 200 feet of newly erected steel fencing along the Indo-Myanmar border.
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