Paintings are probably the oldest form of historiography which has quickly developed into an art form. It started off as storytelling and later developed into something more complex and intricate. We have all seen, in person or through some media, the ancient wall paintings in caves to the famous Guernica. We have seen the Monalisa […]
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When we were young we used to get scared of the word pulis (Police). No, we were not any gangsters or local trouble making goons. We were scared because we were very simple folks without any connection with either ‘bad people’ or ‘good people’. It was the year 2001 and I was a six-year-old who
Of hopes and promises December 12, 2019. It was decided by organizations and artists protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that they shall all gather at the Latasil Ground to put up a demonstration against the government. But the demonstrations and protest rallies of the days prior had heated the system. Police and administration,
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Assam is situated in “one of the greatest routes of migration of mankind”. Over time people of different strains, particularly Indo-Chinese, Mongoloids poured into the region and added new cultural elements to the region’s population and culture complex, creating a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious society. This intermingling of cultures though having diversity among them gave
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The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 came into force on 10 January 2020 (Signed by the President of India on 12 December 2019). It was during those days that Assam saw another violent uprising against the said Bill. Although the central and state governments promised that there was no need to worry, the people of Assam
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