Inspired by the words of Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, and other patron saints of American literature, I tell my students, in...

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The protests and the violence along with it spread like wildfire. To make matters worse we had Akhil Gogoi, leader of the Krishak Mukti...

There was an easiness in the winter breeze that blew on December 8, 2019. I say that because nature always has its way of indicating...

If liberal democracy has been the most successful political idea of the last 400 years, then the internet and social media more...

The following is a speech from the movie Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) delivered by the character Hans Rolfe played by Maxmilian Schell....

The lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the...

Before I begin, I would like to clarify that neither are my words an absolute truth, nor do I have any large-scale empirical evidence to...

“Babri now lay in rubbles. They are saying they have demolished the mosque.” “Really?! What do we do now Pranjit?” “Don’t worry Seema. We...

It is not surprising that Donald Trump is facing impeachment proceedings. It is surprising that he is finally facing impeachment...

This week Greta Thunberg appeared on the Ellen Show and met with Leonardo Di Caprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of her visit to Los...

In contemporary history of Assam, Parag Das is the most important thinker and activist who provided the ideological foundation for...

For a state so strategically situated and so economically vital, Assam has rarely ever found itself sharing any common history with the...