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To grandpas with love

by Nitin A Gokhale

03 Sep/12

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Sitting by my father’s bedside in a Pune hospital last week, watching him struggling to recover from a stroke, I was suddenly hit by helplessness. And nostalgia. Helplessness because I couldn’t do anything but wait for the doctors to treat him. Nostalgia because now in his 81st year, father (can…

NORTH-EAST: Big Brother And The Seven Sisters

by Nitin A Gokhale

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28 Aug/12

General, Outlook

More than 15 years ago, Krishna Prasad, now Outlook magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, me and a photographer colleague, T. Narayan had traveled through three states of the North-east following a massacre of non-trial Bengalis in Tripura. Apart from the killing, we tried to make sense of the region’s varied challenges and…

Conspiracy of the guns

by Nitin A Gokhale

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28 Aug/12

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My friend, RN Ravi, who retired in May as IB’s Special Director was in-charge of the North-east for a number of years and knows the inside stories of how north-east is treated in the corridors of power. He has started writing on the region’s affairs quite regularly since he…

Assam: Deja vu tinged with sadness

by Nitin A Gokhale

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21 Aug/12

General, Rediff

For Indian Express journalist Samudra Gupta Kashyap–my closest friend and travelling companion in the north-east–and me, the latest violence in Kokrajhar is like rewinding an old film. In the past three decades, he–and I, till 2006–have reported on at least a dozen major ethnic/communal riots across the region. The…

by Nitin A Gokhale

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21 Aug/12

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