Article by Sagarmoy Phukan and Aditya Bhuyan Introduction The quantity of municipal solid wastes generated in urban centres of Assam has been consistently rising over the years. Guwahati, the gateway… Read more The Chandrapur situation: Thoughts on waste management situation of Guwahati →
Article by Nayani Sarma Since the turn of the twenty-first century, scholars, journalists and activists from India’s north-eastern region have been regularly writing about environmental problems faced by this region.… Read more Introspection on the environmental education in India’s North-East →
Editorial by Sagarmoy Phukan and Pratyush Paras Sarma On 3rd June 2021, NITI Aayog published the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for India. As usual Assam’s performance has been still under… Read more How can Assam progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals →
Written by Deep Santu Pathak Northeast Indian (NEI) regions have been seeing various agitations, clashes, insurgencies and even attempts at annexation by neighbouring countries. The area has been a “disturbed… Read more “Conflicted” Northeast India: mired with socio-economic, political, ethnic & cultural identity →
Submitted by: Tanaya Hazarika Introduction Land struggles in India have increasingly been centred around a new type of activism, termed as ‘law struggles’ that includes collective action aimed towards achieving… Read more A Critical reflection on the legal framework around land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement in India. →
Written by Pratyush Paras Sarma The term creamy layer was first coined by Justice Krishna Iyer in State of Kerala versus NM Thomas, wherein he noticed that advantages of the… Read more The Creamy Layer Debate of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe →
Article by Gaurav Sarma Assam is the largest tea producing region in India, producing more than half of the tea output in the country with an approximate 507 million kg… Read more Assam Tea in the 21st Century: Prospect for Plantations towards a Thriving Tea Industry →
Palm oil and its derivative products are ubiquitous in our present day lives – its products used in everything from our cosmetics to car fuel. And its worldwide demand is… Read more Palm oil expansion in Northeastern India: The questions we need to ask →
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