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It will be tough for the Congress in Assam

Subir Bhaumik

A few weeks back, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was in favour of advancing the assembly elections that’s normally due in early 2011. He was known to favour an election in November or perhaps even earlier. I am sure he will change his mind now. The opposition unity is growing in the assembly and outside it, as the rally held recently in Dispur amply demonstrated. The strength and popularity of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity led by Akhil Gogoi is also growing.

Dam It:China

Gail T.W.Thomas

India is often called the Big Bully by its South East Asian counterparts and for somewhat valid reasons. In recent times though, the tables have been turned by its biggest neighbour and an expansionist regime from the north.

It is true that China’s tactics against India have most often been underhanded. And inspite of both countries having a data sharing agreement on hydropower projects along the Brahmaputra, China, for several years now, has been denying the existence of any project on the river. But recent findings have shown that once again the ‘Red Dragon’s’ plans have been kept strategically secret. Reports reveal that ‘big brother’ has plans to build a mega dam on their side of the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet) which will have a 38 gigawatt hydropower plant.

Punishing the Maharajas of Tripura

P.B.K.Manikya

The Tripura rulers have been benevolent and liberal – a multi-social variegated society coexisted in harmony irrespective of faith, ethnicity and castes. The hill tribal ruler followed the tribal animistic and Vedic religion hand in hand without losing its distinct identity, and therefore, universal in its approach to humanism, thus, spiritually evolved, encouraging social fusion of different tribal and non tribal cultures.

This showed that the government and the governance of the day (rulers) were giving solutions to the people’s problems; otherwise there would have been tension within the state amongst different tribes. This only proves that even though there was a monarchial system, it was a government of consensus of different tribes with different cultures.