The Supreme Court of India commuted the death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers today on February 18, 2014.The three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have been spared the gallows. The judgment was delivered by a bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, which had reserved its verdict on the plea of […]
If you are already assuming that this is going to be a critical analysis of Madras Cafe in comparison with Dil Se, you are wrong in the first place. Dil Se, a movie set on the backdrop of insurgency in Assam was total failure from all aspects. It mis-represented the insurgency issue of Assam in […]
By– Priyankan Goswami Mother Teresa was awarded the Bharat Ratna after she became recipient of Nobel Prize for peace in 1979. If Irom Sharmila of Manipur gets the Nobel Peace prize for her more than decade long hunger strike to scrap a draconian inhuman Indian law called AFSPA, will the Indian State who always considered […]
It was disappointing that the square at Jalukbari near Saraighat, connecting the historic Saraighat Bridge, Gauhati University, the road to Guwahati and the by-pass around the city was named Rajiv Chowk. Not because we dis-respect the Late Indian Prime Minister who administered the Assam Accord to end six struggling years of Assam agitation in 1985. […]
By- Correspondent| Date- September 10, 2011 The Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has been often spoken about as something very close to the heart of people of Assam, as it was one of the outcomes of the blood of 855 youth who sacrificed their lives during the historic Assam agitation. The Refinery itself owes its existence […]