Outlook

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…

A Harvard mba and a priest, Father VM's calling are the deprived kids of the Northeast

Nobelity may embrace the redeemer; A ham-handed character assassin; Another Left turn?; Stardom files for its returns; How to delete the insurgency icon and Inside the diamond ring.

Assamese women’s groups are up in arms over a shocking incident in Nalbari district where the local administration arrested Rita Dutta and Rani Bhattacharyya, allegedly without a warrant, kept them in the Belsor police station for two days and ordered “virginity tests” on them after a news report said they…