Sanjib Baruah
The writer is professor of political studies, Bard College, New York
Sat, Jun 04, 2022
Sanjib Baruah writes: It is an effort to expand or narrow an imagined ‘us’ against an equally imagined ‘them’.
Mon, Apr 04, 2022
It’s only prudent to repeal this Act now. Study its record to strengthen the foundation of Indian democracy
Sun, Mar 27, 2022
Sanjib Baruah writes: The ambivalence of many countries in condemning Russia has made the fault line between Europe and non-Europe visible
Wed, Jan 05, 2022
🔴 Sanjib Baruah writes: A year later, the ideas and values that underpinned the attack on their nation’s democracy continue to have purchase among many white Americans.
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
🔴 Sanjib Baruah writes: Even if half a century later, the civil war that split Pakistan has had a decisive impact on the ideological battle over India’s national identity.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021
Sanjib Baruah writes: Evictions have long been an explosive subject due to the region’s demographic and political history, as well as the displacement and dispossession caused by riverbank erosion.
Fri, Aug 27, 2021
Sanjib Baruah writes: Election victories under these conditions don’t guarantee political peace and stability as seen recently in Meghalaya and Assam-Mizoram border clash
Mon, Aug 02, 2021
Sanjib Baruah writes: If Afghanistan were to descend into civil war, he will have to share part of the blame, but only for his failure to master politics despite being dealt a bad hand
Sat, May 08, 2021
Sanjib Baruah writes: Despite the electoral failure of the anti-CAA platform, Gogoi’s victory might prove to be politically consequential in coming months.
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
It will continue to animate and shape the state’s politics in profound and unpredictable ways in the foreseeable future.
Mon, Jan 18, 2021
If Trump’s 2016 election victory was partly the result of a racial backlash against the Obama presidency, Biden’s public embrace of diversity and inclusion is sure to reinforce white resentment and disaffection.
Mon, Dec 28, 2020
It has become commonplace to talk of slavery as America’s original sin. But this narrative elides the story of the US as a settler colony — native Americans were forcibly removed before white settlers could use slave labour to cultivate those lands.
Mon, Nov 09, 2020
The pandemic forced states to adopt new rules to enable early and absentee or postal voting and to suspend some of the more onerous rules.
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
The fears about the possibility of a peaceful presidential transition point towards a crisis of liberal democracy that has uniquely American characteristics.
Sat, Aug 22, 2020
The fundamental question about who all the stakeholders in the Naga conflict are, still needs a satisfactory answer, one that is based on an in-depth mapping of the conflict.
Fri, Jul 24, 2020
Sanjib Baruah writes: Armed groups in Northeast India have a long track record of successfully claiming a share of development funds — with the complicity of elected and appointed public officials — both before and after signing “peace accords”. Nagaland may be the leader in this regard, but not an exception.
Fri, Jul 03, 2020
Anxiety about unintended consequences of a 1965 law lies behind politics of immigration in Trump's America.
Wed, Jun 17, 2020
In India, critics have legitimately called out the hypocrisy of elites who express digital solidarity with American protesters but ignore police violence and racial prejudice at home.
Thu, May 28, 2020
Society needs to regain moral compass, address plight of people in cities whose precarious livelihoods keep them steps away from destitution.
Mon, May 04, 2020
President Moon Jae-in’s left-leaning Democratic Party won a landslide victory in South Korea’s parliamentary elections last month, signalling strong public approval of the government’s handling of the crisi
Wed, Jan 22, 2020
India’s new official narrative is, at complete variance with the understanding that has informed Indian foreign policy so far. If Hindus were equally persecuted in East Pakistan/Bangladesh both before and after it broke away from Pakistan, why did India even bother to intervene in the war of liberation?
Tue, Dec 17, 2019
This is not the first time that a major country has adopted an ideology-driven refugee policy. There are lessons to be drawn from the experience of countries that had adopted similar policies before.
Sat, Aug 31, 2019
India is unlikely to deport to Bangladesh people who fail NRC test. But the millions who will become non-citizens will have fewer rights
Tue, Jan 15, 2019
Many view the citizenship amendment bill as a betrayal of BJP’s poll promise
Fri, Nov 02, 2018
India has displayed an ample supply of national self-confidence and pride in recent years. But the self-confidence has not translated into good public policy.