25 Years After the Oslo Accords, Peace Remains a Far Cry for the Middle...
In 1993 the Oslo Accords were struck in optimism, but a quarter of a century later little has changed - and there's no real prospect it ever will.
How the 1947 Sylhet Partition Led to Assam’s Politics of the Foreigner
Till the division, there were more Bengali speakers in Assam than Assamese speakers.
Caged in Concrete: An Adivasi Urban Nightmare
An Adivasi village within the megacity of Mumbai has been razed to make way for a Metro car depot, its inhabitants herded into matchbox-sized flats in an SRA building.
Breaking up Families? America Looks Like a Dickens Novel
The Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the “New” Poor Laws of England in the 1830s bear striking similarities in a Dickensian sense.
Azad and Houda (Part II)
Two refugees in transit find love, warmth and solace in each other.
Spectre of Statelessness Looms Over Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants in Assam
The government of the northeast Indian state of Assam appears poised to strip millions of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants of all constitutional rights and even render them stateless.
Struggles of the Sandbar People
Life on the sandbars, or 'Chars', in Assam's Brahmaputra River is a daily struggle for most living on them.
The Dicey Business of Repatriating Rohingya Refugees
How does one facilitate the return of those who do not even have a home to go back to?
A Century On, The Balfour Declaration Still Shapes Palestinians’ Everyday Lives
With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, irrevocably changed the political and geographic landscape of the Middle East.