[ad_1] The frontier state of Assam – incidentally the land of my birth – is today seething with animosity, fear and resentment. It is tearing apart. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has done all he can to weaponise the legitimate anxieties of the Assamese people concerning indigeneity and land, to manufacture and stoke hatred … Read more
[ad_1] In 1981, 60-year-old Tayub Ali’s family moved from Morigaon to a region on Assam’s border with Nagaland. “As there was no land in Morigaon and no way to earn a living, we came to Uriamghat,” he said. Both Assam and Nagaland claimed this region on the banks of the Regma river as their land. … Read more
[ad_1] “Twenty-five years ago, the Brahmaputra took away our home,” said 38-year-old Safiur Rahman Mondol. “Now, the government has bulldozed it.” Over two decades ago, Mondol’s home on a char, the temporary sandbar islands of Assam which are regularly swallowed by the Brahmaputra, was washed away. The family landed up 10 km away at Churuabakra … Read more