Tag: Assam
India’s migration politics will topple Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina
India's migration politics — an assertion that there are 40 million Bangladeshi migrants illegally living in India and that they must be pushed back...
From labours constructing detention centers to Army man serving at border all face the wrath of NRC Assam process
Delhi: Forty-nine-year-old Pradip Kumar Saha, from Assam's Ranopatti, cast his vote in the 1989 General Elections, but in 2002 he got listed as a...
To NRC or Not: West Bengal Resolution against NRC builds up political steam in the state
Kolkata: On September 7 West Bengal became the first Indian state to officially protest against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam,...
Bring Resolution in West Bengal Assembly to stall NRC process in Bengal demands Anti-NRC forum
Kolkata: After the final list of National Register for Citizen (NRC) in Assam was released on Saturday the first protest against it took place...
Garos in West Bengal village losing matrilineal identity
Kolkata: Gabrielle Bertrand in her book ‘Secret Lands Where Women Reign’, wrote, “Recalling my first contacts with that Garos community which has preserved its...
Kolkata’s First NRC Victim to Walk Out ‘Stateless’ of Detention Camp in 2020
Kolkata/Guwahati: Fifty-year-old Asgar Ali, a carpenter by profession, will be reuniting with his family in 2020 after completing his three-year-detention in Goalpara detention centre,...