How politicians from Assam and Mizoram escalated then downplayed the border dispute caravanmagazine.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from caravanmagazine.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The deepening fault lines in India, a process ably accelerated by the present regime which gives the colour of communalism to the most mundane and also important issues of governance
A guide to resolving the Assam-Mizoram issue thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
701 Caution: There are signs of an Assam-Mizoram rapprochement, but the temptation to politicise the strife does not augur well. PTI
Radhika Ramaseshan
Senior Journalist
History’s caprices have a way of catching up with the present times in the least expected ways. The shadow of the Partition has dogged and reshaped the history of three countries at all times but less seen and felt are the ramifications of a similar redrawing of borders demarcating the seven states of India’s Northeast that burst forth violently just when the troubled region seems to have made peace with itself. The irony could not have been starker when Assam and Mizoram went to ‘war’ recently. In ordinary circumstances, the use of the word ‘war’ to describe an intra-nation conflict might be unwarranted. But the sequence of events which erupted on the inter-state border between Vairengte (Mizoram) and Lailapur (Assam) last week reinforced the fragility of an entity that the BJP, like its predecesso
'Tukde-tukde toolkits' is back on Times Now, this time to help BJP on Assam-Mizo conflict newslaundry.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newslaundry.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.