Garo Hills farmers exposed to making of ‘new age fibres’
Shillong, Feb 21: What was once discarded as agricultural residue in Garo Hills is now being reimagined as a launchpad for rural textile entrepreneurship...
Epstein, Elites and Accountability
By Satyabrat Borah
The name Jeffrey Epstein has become more than the name of a man. It has turned into a symbol, a shorthand for...
Toward Resolution in the Naga Peace Process
By Dipak Kurmi
Few issues in Nagaland evoke as much collective emotion and enduring uncertainty as the unresolved Naga political question. Often described as one...
AI Impact Summit 2026: Meghalaya draws attention with steps to empower health workers
Shillong, Feb 20: Meghalaya has placed frontline health workers at the heart of India’s artificial intelligence ambitions, with the State Health Systems Resource Centre...
India–France Strategic Partnership Enters a New Phase
By Dipak Kurmi
The elevation of ties between India and France to a Special Global Strategic Partnership marks a defining moment in the evolution of...
Two Hundred Years of Yandabo: A Treaty, a Turning Point
By Satyabrat Borah
As the bicentenary of the Treaty of Yandaboo approaches, Assam finds itself standing at a quiet but deeply significant historical threshold. Two...
Can Indian IT bridge the AI ‘Deployment Gap’?
By Dipak Kurmi
In the mid-to-late 1990s, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen introduced the influential concept of “technology overshoot,” arguing that companies frequently innovate...
Troubled Waters at Great Nicobar
By Satyabrat Borah
Troubled waters is an apt phrase when one looks at the Great Nicobar Project not only because it involves the sea, ports...
When Childhood Meets the Algorithm
By Satyabrat Borah
The idea that a government might seriously consider banning social media for children under the age of sixteen would have sounded extreme...
The Sacred Arc of Ramadan
By Dipak Kurmi
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, unfolds each year as a season of profound spiritual awakening for more than...
Ali Aye Ligang and the Living Culture of the Misings
By Dipak Kurmi
Agriculture, with its intrinsic connection to human survival, culture, and collective memory, has remained the beating heart of civilizations since time immemorial....
SORRY PLUTO, BUT THAT’S HOW SCIENCE WORKS
By Bhaskar Saikia
Every year on 18 February, astronomers and space enthusiasts observe Pluto Day, marking the discovery of Pluto in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh....
