The assassination of Lafiqul Islam Ahmed, President of the All Bodo Minorities Students Union(ABMSU) is reminding the people of Assam, about its dark period of recent history. The period of late nineties in Assam with the AGP Government in State and BJP ruled coalition in Center had seen a bloody era of secret and extra-judicial […]
A case number 02/2014(STF PS) was registered with Sections 120(B) & 500 of IPC and 66(D) of Information Technology Act of India in connection of the case. Ironically the first thing that, it was needed to be proved was the picture of Parag Kumar Das put up by those websites was indeed of Parag Kumar […]
After the news Inhuman Cyber Crime by Jagaran, India TV, IndiLeak, NewsX, CanIndia to defame late Assamese Journalist published in Times of Assam dated February 07, 2014, it has been known that some of these media bodies involved have taken down the photo of Late Parag Kumar Das, which was showed as the picture of Paresh […]
By- Dhruba Jyoti Deka & Priyankan Goswami Congress i.e. Indian National Congress has proved to a total betrayer for the country, including Assam and the rest of North East. Here the question comes as,- is BJP the right option or will Narendra Modi’s wave reach the North Eastern corners of the country? The answer seems […]
It has more than 17 years. 17 long tearful years to a mother, a brother, wife, two children and other family members who have been denied of justice because their beloved son, brother, husband or father was the truest lover of his motherland. Every one of us who have lived through his times and those […]
On the evening of 9th December 1979, there were huge mass gatherings of Assamese at different places along the highway from Guwahati to Barpeta to protest and stop Abida Begum, wife of the then President of India Fakaruddin Ali Ahmad, from filing nomination of contesting in the Lok Sabha. Terming her as an illegal migrant […]
As I pen this down, our Facebook walls are filled with jokes, quotes and anguish of how the Indian Economy is going to dogs, how rupees rises up only when Dhoni tosses the coin and how price rise is affecting all of us. True, -If India would have been self-sufficient, the dollar value would have […]
As the country celebrates the 66th Independence Day, I recollect some memories of myself as a kid growing up in Assam, India’s troubled North East during the nineties. Independence Day to us was just an ULFAi diya Asom Bondho for me and every other kid in town. As a kid, it meant a day when […]
Edward Snowden, with his exposure of the demonic electronic-spying embryo operated by the United States and the United Kingdom that raised the most serious questions regarding privacy and freedom during our times, is going to become a name that history will remember for centuries. As this piece gets written, Snowden’s whereabouts are unknown and he […]
Last year, when a lady teacher named Jahnabi Mahanta Rajkonwar joined banned outfit ULFA, Assamese media published a notorious rumor that she had an affair with the outfit’s chairman Dr. Abhizeet Bormon. And the rumor was based on the source provided by controversial IPS(retired) officer G M Shrivastava, who was alleged as the man behind […]