Nightmare of Nellie – 33 years after a blood-soaked vote, Assam  still holds its breath during poll season 

31st Mar 2016, Quartz India

The only blood that sub-inspector Kabir Singh Limbo has seen spilled in the Nellie area has been in very bad road accidents on National Highway 37 as traffic whizzes past. Limbo has been in charge of the tin-roofed Nellie police outpost for a year-and-a-half. During monsoons, Limbo says, parts of the highway linking Assam’s Goalpara…

After biting the dust of the Gangetic plains, Modi needs to come home and stay home

11th Sept 2015, Quartz IndiaLeave a comment

For prime minister Narendra Modi, 2015 has been an annus horribilis, bracketed by the Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) waiting loss in the Delhi elections in February, and now the even more humiliating and momentous loss in Bihar.  Bihar has been bruited about, mainly by the BJP, as a referendum on Modi’s popularity. Modi heavily invested…