May 17 had been declared a day of statewide shutdown by a coalition of non-Bodo groups. However, it was imperative to meet Rajni Phukan who worked for Suma En…
On the evening of May 11, the front portion of a tanker containing 11,000 litres of diesel, on contract with NHPC, was set on fire in Thekeraguri village adja…
[A shorter version of this beautiful encounter was published in Open magazine, Vol 04 Issue 17 dated April 24-30, 2012. Below is a detailed, more intimate v…
(This article first appeared in The Times of India Crest edition , dated April 28, 2012) Pakistani protest band Laal uses music and satire to take Mar…
(This article first appeared in The Hindu , dated January 28, 2012) It took 14 years to make the 200-minute-long documentary “Jai Bhim Comrade” o…
On November 12 last year, 25 people congregated in a Bandra flat to prepare and eat momo. This delicacy was the magnet that drew about 20 Tibetans living in Mu…