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India’s Rice Trade Faces West Asia Turmoil

By Dipak Kurmi The intensifying conflict in West Asia has begun to cast a long shadow over India’s export economy, particularly the highly significant trade in rice. As the crisis...

NCERT, Democracy and Discomfort 

By Satyabrat Borah The recent controversy over the NCERT Class 8 social science textbook has opened up an uncomfortable...

India backs ‘Myanmar-led, Myanmar-owned’ peace process: EAM Jaishankar

New Delhi, Mar 4 : India supports a Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned peace process that can deliver lasting peace...

Why the World Keeps Choosing War Over Wisdom 

By Satyabrat Borah The world seems to be at war again, and for many people the feeling is not...

Barpeta’s Doul Utsav: Where Neo-Vaishnavite Devotion Comes Alive

By Dipak Kurmi In the richly layered cultural landscape of Assam, few places embody the spiritual and artistic vitality...
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Trump, Tariffs and the Rule of Law 

By Satyabrat Borah In American politics, tariffs have always been more than dry instruments of economic policy. They carry emotional weight, tapping into ideas of...

Meghalaya’s Fiscal Resolve and Developmental Ascent

By Dipak Kurmi When Meghalaya Chief Minister and Finance Minister Conrad K Sangma rose on February 23, 2026 to present his ninth consecutive state budget,...

Why Modern Wars Have No Endings

By Satyabrat Borah In the late 1940s, as the ruins of Europe were still smoking and millions were trying to rebuild lives shattered by the...

Congress at the Crossroads in Assam

By Dipak Kurmi The Assam unit of the Indian National Congress appears to be navigating one of the most turbulent phases in its recent political...

India’s Search for AI Sovereignty

By Satyabrat Borah When Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks about artificial intelligence on global stages, he is not merely talking about technology. He is talking...

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...
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