The writer is professor of political studies, Bard College, New York
June 28,2023 07:30:54 AM
The 2021 coup in Myanmar triggered a refugee influx into India. The problem has been framed in Manipur in incendiary language, ignoring transnational kinship relations
Wed, Jun 28, 2023May 09,2023 15:44:13 PM
The category Scheduled Tribe privileges indigeneity over citizenships, and often leaves out the marginalised from the benefits of reservation
Wed, May 10, 2023April 03,2023 18:54:00 PM
If the case against Trump advances, repeated mention of the charge of hush money to a porn star is unlikely to bolster his prospects. If the case falls apart in court, it will help him
Tue, Apr 04, 2023November 09,2022 20:02:52 PM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Election of a large group of election denialists to the Congress less than a year after the political violence at the US Capitol is significant — not just for its impact on Trump’s political fortunes. They do not accept the legitimacy of Biden's presidency
Fri, Nov 11, 2022September 15,2022 04:06:26 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: It is time we consider having a moratorium on the engineering of the world’s last remaining free-flowing rivers–some of which fortunately, are in these parts of the world -- and rethink the framework of regional cooperation on water-related matters
Thu, Sep 15, 2022August 25,2022 04:00:51 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Can a democracy – even the world’s leading one – make itself safe against its voters and the politicians they elect?
Thu, Aug 25, 2022June 04,2022 04:15:25 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: It is an effort to expand or narrow an imagined ‘us’ against an equally imagined ‘them’.
Sat, Jun 04, 2022April 04,2022 04:38:04 AM
It’s only prudent to repeal this Act now. Study its record to strengthen the foundation of Indian democracy
Mon, Apr 04, 2022March 26,2022 03:33:56 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: The ambivalence of many countries in condemning Russia has made the fault line between Europe and non-Europe visible
Sun, Mar 27, 2022January 05,2022 04:00:47 AM
🔴 Sanjib Baruah writes: A year later, the ideas and values that underpinned the attack on their nation’s democracy continue to have purchase among many white Americans.
Wed, Jan 05, 2022December 15,2021 03:03:24 AM
🔴 Sanjib Baruah writes: Even if half a century later, the civil war that split Pakistan has had a decisive impact on the ideological battle over India’s national identity.
Wed, Dec 15, 2021October 08,2021 03:50:33 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Evictions have long been an explosive subject due to the region’s demographic and political history, as well as the displacement and dispossession caused by riverbank erosion.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021August 26,2021 03:55:29 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Election victories under these conditions don’t guarantee political peace and stability as seen recently in Meghalaya and Assam-Mizoram border clash
Fri, Aug 27, 2021August 02,2021 04:05:41 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: If Afghanistan were to descend into civil war, he will have to share part of the blame, but only for his failure to master politics despite being dealt a bad hand
Mon, Aug 02, 2021May 08,2021 03:21:38 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Despite the electoral failure of the anti-CAA platform, Gogoi’s victory might prove to be politically consequential in coming months.
Sat, May 08, 2021April 09,2021 03:07:20 AM
It will continue to animate and shape the state’s politics in profound and unpredictable ways in the foreseeable future.
Fri, Apr 09, 2021January 18,2021 02:00:34 AM
If Trump’s 2016 election victory was partly the result of a racial backlash against the Obama presidency, Biden’s public embrace of diversity and inclusion is sure to reinforce white resentment and disaffection.
Mon, Jan 18, 2021December 28,2020 04:33:41 AM
It has become commonplace to talk of slavery as America’s original sin. But this narrative elides the story of the US as a settler colony — native Americans were forcibly removed before white settlers could use slave labour to cultivate those lands.
Mon, Dec 28, 2020November 09,2020 03:23:16 AM
The pandemic forced states to adopt new rules to enable early and absentee or postal voting and to suspend some of the more onerous rules.
Mon, Nov 09, 2020October 28,2020 03:59:48 AM
The fears about the possibility of a peaceful presidential transition point towards a crisis of liberal democracy that has uniquely American characteristics.
Wed, Oct 28, 2020August 22,2020 04:05:14 AM
The fundamental question about who all the stakeholders in the Naga conflict are, still needs a satisfactory answer, one that is based on an in-depth mapping of the conflict.
Sat, Aug 22, 2020July 24,2020 04:00:08 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Armed groups in Northeast India have a long track record of successfully claiming a share of development funds — with the complicity of elected and appointed public officials — both before and after signing “peace accords”. Nagaland may be the leader in this regard, but not an exception.
Fri, Jul 24, 2020July 03,2020 00:31:06 AM
Anxiety about unintended consequences of a 1965 law lies behind politics of immigration in Trump's America.
Fri, Jul 03, 2020June 17,2020 03:00:03 AM
In India, critics have legitimately called out the hypocrisy of elites who express digital solidarity with American protesters but ignore police violence and racial prejudice at home.
Wed, Jun 17, 2020May 28,2020 04:00:31 AM
Society needs to regain moral compass, address plight of people in cities whose precarious livelihoods keep them steps away from destitution.
Thu, May 28, 2020