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Misery unites the bizarrely diverse weather patterns in India. While a large part of the country is facing a severe drought, Assam and other parts of the Northeast are facing a deluge. Floods are not new in Assam but this monsoon, the turbulent Brahmaputra and its raging tributaries have wreaked…

A new sherrif for the seven sisters, Ashes and diamonds, Index fingers, Splitting some more atoms, A little bit of federal itch and A messy balance sheet.

The Indian government, after years of hesitation, has finally decided to extend its counter-insurgency operations against militant groups in the Northeast to neighbouring countries Bhutan and Myanmar. It’s common knowledge that many Northeast militant groups like the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)…

If one is in Assam, can the foreign national question be far behind? Even a drive to evict encroachers from reserved forest land, initiated by the state government, is haunted by the spectre of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. So much so that the drive has been slowed down. The Opposition—the Asom…

Guwahati will, from now on, no longer scrape the sky. And Assam’s real-estate developers are thoroughly disappointed. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi gave them a rude shock when he took personal initiative to ban all up-coming high-rise buildings. “Unchecked growth of high-rise buildings was adversely affecting the environment and would have…