Dr Saurabh Jha and I wrote a play on this issue, which was performed by students at Ashoka University.

Along with much of India, the people of Assam also took a more serious look at the MP after he introduced the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi-led government in August last year. In his fiery speech, Gogoi had, among other issues, focussed on Manipur and questioned the prime minister’s silence.

The Nellie massacre of 1983 killed thousands in Assam. In the larger Assamese society, the tragedy is either underplayed or justified.

Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta's admonition of those who applied for jobs in the police department and demanded results on time reflects the demand for a republic of assent.

As the editor of 'Goriyoshi', a monthly magazine, Lakshmi Nandan Bora guided and published a generation of writers in Assamese.

When I was an MA student, the Delhi University professor taught me how linguistic purism operates and is intrinsically connected to the construction and maintenance of a national identity.

Jyotirmoy Talukdar translates the poem 'Moi Axomiya', which narrates in first person the tale of Muslim Mughal soldiers who fell in love with Assam's beauty and decided to stay back.

Friends of Akhil Gogoi that had left him after bitter squabbles were, in fact, the ones most desperate to see him come out of jail and lead movements from the front.

Members of the All Assam Students’ Union have filed lakhs of indiscriminate objections on the inclusion of names that sound Bengali Muslim in the final NRC draft.

The famed producer, formidable actor and founder of Kohinoor Theatre, a leading mobile theatre company of the state, compelled all classes to pay heed to this unique theatre form.