Tag: Assam
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,...
Bengali poet attacked by right wing extremists in Silchar, event cancelled
Kolkata: Poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay came back to Kolkata on Sunday morning after facing the wrath of Hindutva forces in Silchar, Assam. On Saturday, right-wing...
Official page of BJP West Bengal uses Islamist terrorist picture for the killing in Assam
Kolkata: A photoshopped version of the cover photo of author Paul Sutliff’s book – Civilization Jihad and the Myth of Moderate Islam has been...
Crowdfunding for Hindu Bengalis left out in NRC draft, people react in shock
Kolkata: Much before the publication of the final draft of National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Assam, a former leader of Hindu Samhati, a...
‘Under supervision of Supreme Court’ does not always mean fair play
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has tried to convince the people that the government has no role to play in the finalisation of the National...