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Northeastern View | Fresh influx of refugees into southern Mizoram reveals new complications in western Myanmar

India, May 10 -- On May 7, The Mizoram Post, citing sources, reported that more than 40 Myanmar nationals had entered a village in southern Mizoram's Lawngtlai district on 30 April from Paletwa in sou... Read More


Northeastern View | One year on, restive Manipur continues to simmer as the state looks away

India, May 3 -- Exactly a year ago, Manipur convulsed into a devastating ethnic conflict that has refused to ebb. The repeated cycles of violence have etched neat lines between the state's dominant Me... Read More


Northeastern View | The fear of being unsettled haunts the Chakmas, Hajongs of Arunachal Pradesh

India, April 24 -- On April 22, Union minister from the BJP, Kiren Rijiju, who hails from Arunachal Pradesh, indicated at a press conference in Itanagar that members of the Chakma and Hajong communiti... Read More


Northeastern View | In Manipur, what does violence hold out for voters?

India, April 17 -- On April 15, Union home minister Amit Shah flew to Imphal as part of his election campaign trail. Making a pitch for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of chief minist... Read More


Northeastern View | Waiting for "Act East" panacea a decade on

India, April 11 -- From the start, India's Act East Policy (AEP) - unveiled by the Narendra Modi government in 2014 as an upgrade of the Look East Policy (LEP) of 1991 - had the development of Northea... Read More


Northeastern View | What's in a name? Territorial dominance, for one

India, April 5 -- Last month, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh, the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) issued a strong protest. "China strongly deplores and fir... Read More


Northeastern View| In the face of Chinese ingress, India holds Bhutan tight

India, March 27 -- Among its neighbours, few are as close to India as the mountain kingdom of Bhutan. Their mutual understanding has braved some of the roughest years of South Asian geopolitics. But, ... Read More


Northeastern View | The demand for a separate 'Frontier Nagaland' state has a colonial history

India, March 24 -- On March 19, 2024, at a public meeting in Tuensang, the main administrative centre in eastern Nagaland, local civil society members made a momentous proclamation on behalf of the pe... Read More


Northeastern View | Making sense of Assam's discordant response to the CAA

India, March 15 -- When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government tabled the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha in December 2019, massive protests erupted across several states in India. ... Read More


Northeastern View | Why the recent Karbi-Hindi tensions in Assam is a tricky situation for the BJP

India, March 8 -- In late February, the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) ordered the eviction of more than 2,000 families belonging to the Hindi-speaking Nonia community living in various parts... Read More