Share List Vijay Sardana Over the last few weeks, farmer protests have been in spotlight and dominated the national discourse. Thousands of agitators especially from Punjab and Haryana have escalated their protests choking several road links connecting to the Capital. A few farmers have unfortunately lost their lives too, presumablyContinue Reading
Share List DP Singh Punjab farmers have cut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s larger-than-life image to size. By doing so they have made amply clear that they will either have their way or highway. It is no mean task and perhaps only farmers can do. Some of the top opposition leadersContinue Reading
Share List S.S. This journey started a decade ago. In 2010, when I first stepped on the US soil, it was never a thought to settle in a foreign land away from family and friends. It was just not the unaccustomed weather and culture but even the fruits and theContinue Reading
Share List Ira A Puranik “We get to keep 70% of our payments per gig. It’s better than having our own parlour, at least we get regular clients.” Indu, an Urbanclap beautician is one of the 3 million workers engaged in short-term, non-permanent, platform based labour. Simply put, she isContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It was a chilly December morning in the year 2012, when Delhi and the entire India woke up to the torturous news headlines of a gruesome gang-rape. As the details of the crime emerged, one could not help but cringe and shudder at the thought ofContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It is the age of communication and precisely marketing communication where selling the idea is important and that is how ‘statesmen’ keep the masses informed or uninformed. Masses, naïve and predictably meek, are beguiled by the mantras manufactured by PR firms and chanted by cult leaders,Continue Reading
Share List Kanwaljit Singh The vast networks of mighty rivers – the Brahmaputra and Barak – in Assam make it prone to flood and erosion which pose major risk to the health of denizens of the State, increase disease fighting burden on the State – a hindrance to the overallContinue Reading
Share List Avinash Singh It was an out-of-the-blue message from a complete stranger! A line in introduction and this first year BA LLB student of Faculty of Law, Gauhati University wanted help in highlighting Assam floods. Amanpreet Kaur Washisht was to the point, brief and crisp and felt genuinely forContinue Reading
Share List Atlanta Mahanta Way back Assam was shaken by a massive earthquake of 8.6 magnitude on Richter scale. It made the mighty Brahmaputra to go topsy-turvy. The river has never been steady after that. The state saw 12 major floods from 1950 to 2010 before it became an annualContinue Reading
Share List Amanpreet Kaur Washisht It has become difficult to judge whether The Brahmaputra and Barak rivers during the monsoon are a boon or a bane, a cause of regular devastation in the land of Assam. Water is life but too much of anything is bad. Natural overload of rainsContinue Reading