social groups – Itisaras

Affirmative Action – A Poisoned Chalice?

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Shriya Tandon 0 Comments affirmative action, Ashok Acharya, backward class, behaviour, Discrimination, diversity, dominant members, electoral incentive, fairness, family, inequalities, inferior, Justice, opportunity, policy, politicization, positive discrimination, reservations, social costs, social groups, suppressed classes, traditions and customs, upper class, validity, violence, vote bank politics, voters

The ghosts of social injustices in the past haunt us even today. And affirmative action was supposed to be its panacea. But, how effective has it been so far? Do such policies hold any rational ground today? Find out in this article.

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Assamese Nationalism and the Project of Enclosing History

April 21, 2020April 22, 2020 Editor 1 Comment Asomiya, Assam, Assam Accord, Assamese, Bangladesh, Bengal, Bengalis, Britain, Culture, Government, groups, historiographic, historiography, History, identity, illegal, linguistic, Memorandum, migrants, minorities, Miyahs, Muslims, National Register of Citizens, nationalist, Nellie Massacre, NRC, Pakistan, past, Postcolonial, present, social groups, Society

In the midst of an outbreak of violence all across India over CAA and NRC, one often fails to ignore the intricacies linked with the history of each region, especially that of Assam which initiate a different debate altogether. Don’t we all then agree that a rich understanding can only be achieved when these regional intricacies which form the collective, are together analyzed?