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Assam Burning
More than 40 people killed, over two lakh people displaced, hundreds of villages in flames, trains and bus services disrupted, large scale rioting, army called in to control the situation, curfew imposed in the violence-hit districts, refugees overflowing at relief camps, state government clueless, central government directionless, political leaders in...
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Assam Riots 2012: A saga of death and denial
This is a guest post by a friend and well wisher of Centre Right India. The author can be found on Twitter as @vivekbabaji While Tarun Gogoi may dismiss that the entire state of Assam is not burning and only a few districts are it also goes on to highlight the...
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Immigration Problem in Assam- A Backgrounder
A LOOK INTO THE BACKGROUND OF ASSAM CLASHES The recent riots in Assam have brought various questions which were lying in cold storage to the fore. This riot has also generated tremendous curiosity and war of words on the social media as to whether the riots were downright “communal”, or...
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Assam Riots: How Should India Deal with Illegal Migrants?
Like any other region of India, Assam too has seen large scale migration throughout history. Migrants from both the sub-continent and the east were accommodated and assimilated in the larger Assamese society. For instance, Ahoms who ruled Assam for over 600 years were descendants of ethnic Tai people from Burma....
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Illegal migration – A serious issue
This is a guest post by a friend and well wisher of Centre Right India. The author can be reached on Twitter at @IgnitedBrain This article attempts to explore the dangerous side of illegal migration that has plagued India for decades. The on going Assam riots have triggered a new...
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Assam Riots And The Media Prism
A terrible tragedy has been unfolding in the North-Eastern state of Assam for close to a week now. The bloody riots between the native Bodos – a predominantly Hindu tribe, and the Bengali Muslims have exposed the failure of the Indian state to guard it’s International Borders (IB) , and...