migration
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Two Colonisations, One Border: What the Data Actually Says About Bengal’s Post-1971 Demographic Story
X.T.M argues census data tell two stories of demographic change in eastern India: Bengali Hindus settled Tripura with state sanction, while Muslim growth in Assam and Bengal border districts is…
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They forgot who they were?
The author notes that linguistic and genetic evidence puts the Romani’s departure from the subcontinent around 1000 AD, with roughly 30 per cent South Asian ancestry, and finds it curious…
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Moving out of India: The bigger picture
The author, who moved to the US two decades ago, offers young Indians a big-picture view of emigrating now that India’s growth has narrowed the material gap, weighing career and…
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Gandhians with Guns (savage Avatars)
The poster says Western liberals romanticise tribal ‘sacred lands’, and that the Bodo violence against alleged Bangladeshi Muslim migrants draws on the 1960s Bangal Kheda movement against Bengalis, so civil…
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Army in Bodo-land (31 dead, 1000x flee homes)
On the killing of 31 in Bodoland, the poster argues that parties have exploited migrants for votes, that the violence has acquired an unnecessary religious colour, and that Modi’s call…
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Bodo vs. Muslim battle restarts (Kokrajhar, Axom)
On renewed killings of Muslim villagers in Assam, the poster argues that tribal and upper-caste groups have united against alleged illegal Bangladeshi migrants, wonders about church activists’ silence, and says…
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Cafe Le Whore and other stories
The poster recommends Moazzam Sheikh’s new short story collection Cafe Le Whore as brilliant, original and funny, a fresh Pakistani-American voice writing human stories about migration, Lahore and San Francisco,…
