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Angshuman Choudhury
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Northeastern View | How the amended FCA can change the course of NE politics

The framework of national vs ecological security set up by the act is dangerous. The SC’s interim order gives us pause enough to go back to the drawing board

Dzukou Valley in Nagaland is sacred to the Angami Naga tribe (Instagram/@jitofalltrades)
Published on Feb 21, 2024 07:58 PM IST

Northeastern View | Why is Manipur still on the boil?

It has been over nine months since the ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities began. Here are three reasons why violence continues to erupt

Manipur has been in the throes of ethnic violence between the majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis since May 3 last year. (PTI)(HT_PRINT)
Published on Feb 16, 2024 06:18 PM IST

India’s relationship with Myanmar’s Arakan Army — it’s complicated

An alleged betrayal of Arakanese rebels 26 years ago continues to affect India's strategic interests. At stake is a multi-crore rupee Kaladan project

Smoke is seen bellowing from a Myanmar Border Police post following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army, an ethnic minority army, in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Nearly a hundred members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army, an official of Bangladesh's border agency said Monday. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)(AP)
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 05:47 PM IST

The ULFA deal is a lesson on geopolitics, messaging and factionalism

The historic deal signed with the pro-talks faction of Assam’s oldest insurgency group, and India is a watered-down version of the group’s early demands

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with members of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) during signing of a peace accord between ULFA and the central and Assam governments, in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI)(HT_PRINT)
Published on Feb 06, 2024 08:38 PM IST

The open border policy between India and Myanmar has a long historical legacy

The Nagas, Mizos and other ethnic communities with cross-border familial ties always saw the demarcated boundary as nothing more than a colonial vestige

People who fled Myanmar carry their belongings across a bridge that connects Myanmar and India at the border village of Zokhawthar, Champhai district, in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram (REUTERS PHOTO)
Published on Jan 29, 2024 08:33 PM IST

Who is the Manipur group that signed a historic truce with the Union government?

UNLF's story isn’t simply one of ideological and military defiance. It also shows how a socialist anti-State insurgency can turn into an inter-ethnic conflict

Members of banned group UNLF after signing the peace agreement. (Amit Shah/X)
Published on Dec 15, 2023 07:11 PM IST

Unpacking Mizoram’s stance towards Myanmar’s Chin refugees

As more refugees pour into Mizoram from Myanmar, a look at the ties that bind the people across the borders, and historical disquietude that underpins it

Champhai, Nov 14 (ANI): Refugees at a camp after entering from Myanmar into Mizoram's Champhai following clashes between armed resistance forces and the military junta, in Champhai on Tuesday. (ANI Photo)(ANI Pic Service)
Published on Dec 02, 2023 01:51 PM IST

Myanmar's armed rebellion against the junta over the years

As Myanmar's ethnic armed organisations band together to challenge the military junta in power, their vision has become a national revolutionary goal

Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army pose for a photograph with the weapons allegedly seized from the Myanmar’s army outpost on a hill in Chinshwehaw town, Myanmar, on Oct. 28, 2023 (The Kokang” online media via AP)
Published on Nov 20, 2023 05:22 PM IST

India’s key role in 21st century non-alignment

As Covid-19, the climate crisis, and Russia’s war in Ukraine exacerbate inequities in the world order, there is a strategic relevance for India to be a leader of developing nations in their quest for equity and autonomy

India’s stature and the call for renewed leadership emanates from the power of her example. It is the resilience of the Indian democratic project that distinguishes India as a non-western global leader like no other. (ANI)
Published on Aug 24, 2022 09:05 PM IST
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