Nitin A Gokhale

There has once again been an outbreak of xenophobia in Assam and the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) is its carrier. Enraged students and unemployed youth have gone on an aggressive jobs-for-locals-only drive over the past fortnight. In two incidents last week, activists of AASU and the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva…

Those who strayed from the flock are proving the biggest stumbling blocks for the Congress as it makes an all-out attempt to win Meghalaya and retain Nagaland, which go to polls on February 26. In Meghalaya, former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma, a staunch Congressman till he formed the NCP…

Things may have quietened down a bit on the north-eastern front but for Sonia Gandhi and her party it’s 1-1. The Congress has lost Mizoram, which was perhaps expected, but has won Meghalaya. And though the party has failed to win a simple majority in the state, Sonia has had…

Caught between the twin millstones of grinding poverty, which is real, and glamour, a relentlessly beckoning mirage, more and more girls from the seven states (now it’s indeed ironic to call them Seven Sisters) in the Northeast are finding themselves in the coercive and dehumanising tentacles of the flesh trade…

Less than 18 months after he came to power with a resounding majority, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi simultaneously battles ill health and a recalcitrant PCC. So, while Gogoi undergoes treatment for back pain and other undisclosed ailments at New Delhi’s aiims, the state unit has seized the opportunity to…