Rajeev Bhattacharyya

3 days ago | thediplomat.com | Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Conflicts in the Northeast are multilayered and covert, ranging from the political and social to the environmental, and with cross-border linkages. Subscribe for ads-free reading India could be more vulnerable in its border region of the Northeast than along its western frontier with Pakistan, which has continuously hogged the limelight. The Northeast is the most strategic region of India, sharing a 5,484 km-long border with Bhutan, China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.

3 weeks ago | thediplomat.com | Rajeev Bhattacharyya

This lizard species, which is valued for its use in traditional medicine in China and Southeast Asia, can earn a smuggler around $70,000 per lizard. Subscribe for ads-free reading Among the several endangered wildlife species that continue to be smuggled out of India’s Northeast is a nocturnal lizard called tokay gecko, which commands an extremely high value in the grey markets of China and Southeast Asia.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has made a strong case for India’s increased engagement with the country’s resistance movement aimed at toppling the military regime. “This is the right time for India to intervene aggressively in Burma (Myanmar) in support of the NUG and Spring Revolution,” the NUG’s media representative in India Aung Nay Nyo, who is also a journalist with the NUG-affiliated PVT media outlet, told The Diplomat.

1 month ago | thediplomat.com | Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has made a strong case for India’s increased engagement with the country’s resistance movement aimed at toppling the military regime. “This is the right time for India to intervene aggressively in Burma (Myanmar) in support of the NUG and Spring Revolution,” the NUG’s media representative in India Aung Nay Nyo, who is also a journalist with the NUG-affiliated PVT media outlet, told The Diplomat.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Rajeev Bhattacharyya

The Indian government’s efforts to normalize the situation in conflict-ridden Manipur has met with limited success, revealing the deep and multi-layered faultlines in the border state that has been burning for almost two years. Supreme Court Justice B R.