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The Burning Of Assam

28th Feb 1983, India TodayBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 22, 2024Leave a comment

The fuse has been burning for almost four years and the mood in the state has passed through all the faces of anger, despair and belligerence to arrive, on election eve, at the explosive. Gauhati has become unrecognisable. Once the citadel of lahe lahe, the Assamese philosophy of languor and peaceability, the capital now rumbles…

A State Ravaged

15th Mar 1983, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 18, 2024Leave a comment

It was beyond the ken of a civilised society, a blood­ spattered vindication of a heartless government’s sudden constitutional piety. The carnage began with a few deaths on February 2; during the next three weeks, it rose every day with dreadful ferocity: a dozen at Cha maria on the 12th, a hundred at Gohpur on…

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