The new fault lines in the north-eastStarting

The new fault lines in the north-eastStarting

On the night of 9 December, as Parliament sat down to discuss sweeping changes to the country’s citizenship law, thousands of university students were marching on the streets of Guwahati. It was a repeat of similar protests which rocked Assam just a few months ago. The slogans were the same: Joi Aai Axom. The concern was the same—the rights of the Khilonjiya, a difficult to translate Assamese word which can at best be described as “indigenous”....