Studio Jirsong reaches Guwahati
SAMHITA BAROOAH Rabijita Gogoi’s engagement with bringing contemporary Assamese amateur theatre to the sensibilities of a relatively urban audience is
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Author: Samhita Barooah
Post 377 in post colonial India
SAMHITA BAROOAH Sec 377 is scrapped by Honourable Supreme Court of India on September 6, 2018. Hope that this decriminalisation
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Gaze at Masculinity
SAMHITA BAROOAH In today’s world public spaces are primarily dominated by men. There was a time when men were protectors
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Women in Sports: Trials and Challenges
SAMHITA BAROOAH FIFA fever was on and I was glued to the TV set for the last few days trying
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Knock, Knock, Its June 5!
SAMHITA BAROOAH The chirpy sparrow at the edge of the bamboo rooftop sighed, “Yet another year of plastic has passed.
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When Guwahati hosts…
SAMHITA BAROOAH Recently at a conference, I met someone prominent in the tourism business who shared a tip, “always remember
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Bodies Breach Borders
SAMHITA BAROOAH Bodies of human beings are just tools of repression, resistance and reform. Body politics in India has multi-dimensional
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Touch Me Not
SAMHITA BAROOAH Are we turning our children into ‘touch me nots’? All in the name of protection, preservation of social
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Guwahati: A city of diversity
SAMHITA BAROOAH Guwahati is a city of migrants, travellers, settlers and multiplicity of identities. This is a city in constant
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Has June 5 become a symbolic gesture?
SAMHITA BAROOAH June 5 is back and human connect with nature is moving against time. We are living in some
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