Angshuman Choudhury
Columnist at Hindustan Times
PhD-ing @NUSingapore & @KingsCollegeLon | ✍🏾 on Northeast India, Myanmar, politics | formerly @CPR_India & @IPCSNewDelhi | @Durham_SGIA alum | from Assam
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1 month ago |
thequint.com | Angshuman Choudhury
The SC has been persistent in its refusal to acknowledge the Rohingyas as refugees fleeing war and persecution. On 16 May, when presented with a petition citing media reports about the Indian government allegedly abandoning some 40 Rohingya refugees at sea near the southeastern coast of Myanmar, the Supreme Court of India’s immediate reported response was seemingly to doubt the claims.
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2 months ago |
thediplomat.com | Angshuman Choudhury
In October 2017, senior representatives and military officers from the six member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) – Thailand, India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal – met in New Delhi for the forum’s first multinational disaster management exercise. It comprised three components – a table top exercise, field training exercises on earthquakes and floods, and an after action review.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
indianexpress.com | Angshuman Choudhury
On February 4, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court, while hearing a petition on foreigner detention in Assam, asked the state government to start the process of deporting 63 detained “foreigners” to their supposed country of origin, understood to be Bangladesh.
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Jan 28, 2025 |
thequint.com | Angshuman Choudhury
In poll-bound Delhi, communally targeting minorities has unfortunately become a familiar political gimmick. Earlier this month, the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Delhi, VK Saxena, shot off a letter to the city’s police chief, urging him to conduct a “special campaign” to identify and expel “illegal Bangladeshis” and “Rohingya infiltrators” on “mission mode”.
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Sep 21, 2024 |
hindustantimes.com | Angshuman Choudhury
For long, New Delhi has framed India’s Northeast as a ‘gateway’ or a ‘land bridge’ to Southeast Asia – first through the Look East Policy (LEP) and then, its recent-most iteration, Act East Policy (AEP). Yet, as far as official diplomatic narratives are concerned, the region remains firmly within South Asia. But there are good reasons — both historical and contemporary — why one could see Northeast India as an extension of Southeast Asia.
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