Guest post by BONOJIT HUSSAIN and MAYUR CHETIA
স্বৰ্গত ৰুচি নাই, যাওঁ মই ভাটিখানালৈ
জুৱাৰী-মদপী-বেশ্যা-সিহঁতকো মেলত গোটাই
মনৰ চিতাৰ ছাই উৰুৱাই গাওঁ আশাবৰী :
আকাশত উৰা মাৰে জাকে জাকে ফিনিক্স চৰাই !
I have no desire for heaven,
Instead I go to the brewhouse,
Gamblers, drunkards, prostitutes – bringing them together
I sing of hope, sprinkling ashes from my soul’s pyre:
In flocks the phoenix flies to the sky.
Guest post by ANKUR TAMULI PHUKAN
Many of us who have been studying the political process in Assam were surprised when we received the news in December 2009 that Chairman Arabindo Rajkhowa and some of his colleagues of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had been arrested in Bangladesh. This moment had to come some day, but we were not prepared to face it. We were familiar with the brave and somewhat legendary image they had created for themselves and needed time to believe that they could be defeated. Continue reading My Days with Nationalism in Assam: Ankur Tamuli Phukan
This is a guest post by ARUNI KASHYAP
In the beginning of this month, the anti-talks faction of NDFB carried out a state-wide massacre of non-Bodos, mostly Hindi speaking settlers in Assam in a revenge-killing spree after Mahesh Basumatary, who allegedly was a cadre of NDFB, was killed by the Indian security forces in Assam’s Sonitpur district. The Bodo militant organisation claimed that the person was an innocent civilian and wasn’t linked to their organisation in any way while the security forces claimed otherwise. A recent report aired in a local television news channel DY365 records the victim’s family and his resident village’s viewpoint that matches with the claims of the NDFB. Continue reading On the November Massacres in Assam: Aruni Kashyap
KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 