Despite the 1951 Garg committee report warning against embankments, the institutions and ideas of the previous decades continue to run after their goal of flood control in the Brahmaputra basin with disastrous consequences
Arupjyoti Saikia and Jagdish Krishnaswamy write: Floods have played a key role in Assam's ecology. But increasing human footprint has affected the ability of flood plains to absorb water and transport sediment
This protest unpacks several layers of critical and interwoven faultlines that have remained buried within Assam’s modern history. In the forefront is the contested history of India’s regional nationalism.
