She works as a senior correspondent at Outlook. She has covered issues of governance, health, crime, and conflict.
At a time when Assam’s political climate is deeply polarised, Chowdhury’s candidature has come to embody a larger generational question: can a young woman, entering politics barely weeks before polling, shift the conversation away from fault lines of identity politics?
Shortages triggered by West Asia tensions and disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz push small LPG cylinders out of reach, forcing Delhi’s most vulnerable to fall back on unsafe and unsustainable alternatives.
Kuki-Zo leaders meet CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh in Guwahati for an “ice-breaking” dialogue, even as protests and violence underscore the fragility of peace efforts.
A high-budget tennis-ball league promises opportunity to small-town players, but its mix of religion, identity, and sport raises deeper questions about what cricket in India is being asked to represent.
Long queues, rising black-market prices and shrinking meals mark the capital’s unfolding cooking gas crisis.
Top court to decide on independent probe as families challenge Gauhati HC order; postmortem findings pointed to assault before deaths.
Drawing from memory, reportage and personal loss, the author Hoihnu Hauzel pieces together stories of displacement, grief and resilience, documenting how ordinary lives were upended by the conflict.
The deceased have been identified as 42-year-old Thengin Baite, a resident of Thawai village in Kamjong district, and 35-year-old Thangboimang Khongsai, an internally displaced person (IDP) who was staying in Shangkai village in neighbouring Ukhrul district.
The exhibition does more than simply display Shetty’s 2005 installation, which was first staged in a fire-damaged Mumbai gallery awaiting demolition. It also borrows the title of that work, using it to frame the larger ideas and tensions explored in the show.
For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of ‘selective liberation’—the deployment of human rights language when aligned with US strategic interests and its relative absence when it conflicts with them
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