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Feb 21, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Vaishna Roy
On February 4, the Supreme Court directed the Assam government to start the deportation process of 63 foreigners currently lodged in the Matia transit camp in western Assam’s Goalpara district. This is the country’s largest detention camp and currently has 270 inmates. Before the Matia camp became operational in 2023, persons declared as foreigners in Assam were lodged in six makeshift detention centres located in jails at Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Tezpur.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Hegde |Sushanta Talukdar |Greeshma Kuthar |Saba Naqvi
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show,” is how Charles Dickens begins his semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, who recently retired as the Chief Justice of India (CJI), could not entertain any such doubt and would want to play the hero not only of his own life but in the lives of several others as well.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy
The fragile Naga peace process has plunged into uncertainty with the Naga rebel group National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) seeking a “third party intervention” to end the stalemate over the Framework Agreement it had signed with the Government of India (GoI) in 2015.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Talmiz Ahmad |Vaishna Roy
With the five-member Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud upholding the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which establishes the criterion for granting Indian citizenship to immigrants from the erstwhile East Pakistan living in Assam, the publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list of 2019 has got the final legal approval.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Sushanta Talukdar
The landmark judgment by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upholding the constitutional validity of the Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 has brought finality to the cut-off date based on which the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was updated and published in 2019.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Sushanta Talukdar |Anand Mishra
What does the Election 2024 verdict tell us? The overarching message is that the Narendra Modi-led BJP lost the majority for the 18th Lok Sabha and the Congress recovered to an extent from two crushing back-to-back defeats. But over and above these two major outcomes, it is the performance of the regional parties that dramatically impacted the electoral outcome of 2024.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Sushanta Talukdar |Anand Mishra |Ashutosh Sharma
The election results, which gave both the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance a far fewer number of seats than they had in the previous Parliament, surprised many. But now, attention has shifted to assessing what that would do to this version of a Narendra Modi-led government in terms of its behaviour and policies in different spheres.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Anand Mishra |Paromita Vohra |Shamindra Nath Roy
Manipur’s Jiribam district, a region with a mixed demography, had been relatively peaceful and largely unaffected by the violent clashes between Meitei and Kuki-Zo groups over the past year. That changed on June 6 when Soibam Saratkumar Singh, a 59-year-old Meitei farmer, went missing and his mutilated body was found later that day. Following the killing, several houses were set ablaze by armed miscreants, resulting in the forced displacement of about 2,000 people belonging to both communities.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Gautam Dheer |Anand Mishra |Ayesha Minhaz
The Congress has staged a comeback in the electoral politics of the north-eastern region, increasing its tally to 7 of the total of 25 seats in the region from 4 in 2019. Local Congress leaders attributed the improvement in the party’s performance to Rahul Gandhi starting his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur and passing through most States in the region. The BJP still dominated the election by winning 13 seats, the maximum from the region, but its tally was lower than the 15 it won in 2019.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Anand Mishra |Nirupama Subramanian |Sushanta Talukdar
Some pieces, they say, write themselves. This was one of those. The concerns we have raised over and over in these pages—about untrammelled power, the signs of full-blown megalomania and narcissism on display, the dangers of hate speech and the demonising of certain communities, the risks inherent in seeking an opposition-mukt Bharat—are not light concerns but come from an engagement with history and a recalling of what such indicators have invariably added up to.
