The Miya has no Human Right
A few videos surfaced from Darrang, Assam. In one of the videos, a poor man was seen running with a lathi in his hand towards the security forces. There were…
Sutputra Radheye
Resistance in translation
India and the world has seen a lot in the recent past, and these poems from the past mirror the importance of resistance when the times are tough. The purpose…
Lathis can cure Corona! Be a believer!
Let’s cure Corona. How? It’s pretty simple. Let’s enforce police forces on the streets, and inflict brutality on public. No questions asked. No answers looked for. Attack the Corona virus…
All Assam Students’ Union, Anti CAA protests and lack of women’s representation
Co-Written by Bhargabi Das and Sutputra Radheye In a remote village in lower Assam, a thio naam performance (a type of devotional song performed while standing, developed by the Vaishnavite…
Death Penalty And The Anti-Thesis Of It
There is always a debate on whether capital punishment, to be specific death penalty, should be abolished or retained for ordinary crimes. In my opinion, it should be abolished. In…
If there is peace
If there is peace- where does it live? how does it look? when to look for it? Is it in the lathis of police or the iron rods…
The Whistleblower of IIT, Guwahati Needs You to Stand in Solidarity
While the nation is fighting against the vehemently totalitarian governance of the central government, I stand here in solidarity with a man who dared to challenge the corrupt system, Prof…
‘ONE STATE, ONE LANGUAGE’ demands in Assam
With the recent uprising in Assam against Citizenship Amendment Bill, a parallel sentiment of ‘Assamese’ linguistic hegemony has erupted among the people, who are in favor of ‘One state, one…
The poor aren’t effigies for your protest
The voices rising from all the corners of Assam against the Citizenship Amendment Act (Bill) has divided Assam into two sects- one, which is pro-bill or honors the stand of…
ASSAM SHAN’T BLEED AGAIN- The Current Citizenship Amendment Bill Row
As we stand in the third decade of astructural economic reform, we must question every side of the coin about their intentions before taking any particular side. The same…
J. N. U.
J.N.U a university where voices speak up where streets protest where classes struggle where birds are still free where azaadi isn't just a word where democracy lives Sutputra Radheye: He…
The Rise of ‘Tele-Nationalism’ in Safron Era
Nation, and nationalism can be, at times, quite confusing terms at philosophical level of thinking. Why am I saying so? Because of a simple fact- every nation has a different…
Kashmir
a paradise weakening in the mist as the signals of light are jammed the houses smelling of local herbs boiled in the saucepans filled with water saline lanes have leaves…
The Bhakt
(This is a fictional scene with no direct or indirect relation with persons living or dead. Any name or scene is utterly co-incidental. The purpose of this poem is to…
Miyah
dappled bloody sheet and nineteen lakh bodies floating to the asphalt shores of Brahmaputra- naked and filled. Birds flying away, leaves falling cold sun setting low, moon bent till toe…
Questioning Democracy
Equality. Freedom. Justice. Secularity. Rights. Federalism. People’s government. That’s the general view of democracy we have in our minds. Democracy promises to incorporate all these values while administrating the institutions…
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