By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 4 January 2021, p. 11. Intentionally presumptuous racism permeates the lives of North-easterners in metropolitan cities of India, which the new anti-racism bill also fails to take note of. Incidents of racism against Indians from the North-east are not new, especially during the last two decades in mainland metropolitan cities of India. The opening of […]
» Read moreProtests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Meghalaya are more about demanding the implementation of the Inner Line Permit system in the state Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 16 March 2020. On 28 February this year, a clash between protesters and supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act broke out in Ichamati village near the Meghalaya- Bangladesh border. One of the protesters […]
» Read moreAs the country simmers in protest against the amended Citizenship Act, tribal areas in the North-east have been uncannily calm. Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 20 January 2020. The Parliament of India passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on 11 December, and it received the assent of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, on 12 December turning the bill […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip The Statesman, (New Delhi), 12 August 2019, p. 14. The presence of faculty as executive members of students’ unions in colleges in India, particularly in the North-east, goes against the rationale with which the unions should be set up On 22 June this year, I got a chance to visit Churachandpur Government College for the first time. The […]
» Read moreIndian Express The region has emerged as an important battleground in this election. April 7, 2014 12:02:46 am By: Thongkholal Haokip With just 25 Lok Sabha seats, India’s Northeast has been a largely neglected region in electoral terms. However, in the era of coalition governments, because of the expectation of a fractured verdict in 2014, it has increasingly received political attention. […]
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