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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Author: Samhita Barooah
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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Angular Development
SAMHITA BAROOAH Development is the new chanting mantra for notes, votes, resources and remedies. When we look at the context
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Downloading Burha Luit
SAMHITA BAROOAH If the Burha luit could speak, it would definitely clamour about its abundance and endurance. It for a
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Can women afford to strike?
SAMHITA BAROOAH Majority of Indian women struggle hard to make ends meet. Somehow making sure that their kitchen fire never
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Two at a time
SAMHITA BAROOAH reflects on two books on Northeast India — Temsula Ao’s ‘Once Upon a Life’ and Teresa Rehman’s ‘The Mothers
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Misogyny in political life: Samhita Barooah
SAMHITA BAROOAH Misogyny in political life is not uncommon across the world. Whenever women have raised their voices, fought for
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Moment of Pride!
SAMHITA BAROOAH How is ‘Pride’ such a pride for some or rather a very few of us? There is always
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