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Sanjib Baruah
The writer is professor of political studies, Bard College, New York
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To truly break with the past, Bangladesh needs robust institutions, not vendettaSubscriber Only
June 05,2025 07:45:26 AM
In view of the speed with which the interim government is proceeding to try Bangladesh’s ousted leader, it may be worth reflecting on the question of time and the pursuit of justice
Thu, Jun 05, 2025
Bangladesh needs reform. But is an interim government suited for that purpose?Subscriber Only
December 11,2024 17:04:31 PM
It should limit itself to modest but strategic reforms. Reinstating the non-party caretaker system to oversee elections could be the first step
Wed, Dec 11, 2024
Expert Explains: Making sense of the political upheaval in BangladeshSubscriber Only
August 07,2024 16:29:14 PM
How did things get so bad for Sheikh Hasina? Could she have done things differently? What happens next? Prof Sanjib Baruah explains.
Thu, Aug 08, 2024
Expert Explains: How the Northeast was ‘invented’, 52 years agoSubscriber Only
December 30,2023 13:13:15 PM
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act and the North-Eastern Council Act were enacted by Parliament on December 30, 1971. Together, they gave birth to Northeast India as an officially recognised and named entity that we know today.
Mon, Dec 30, 2024
Sanjib Baruah writes: Myanmar’s shadow in ManipurSubscriber Only
June 28,2023 07:30:54 AM
The 2021 coup in Myanmar triggered a refugee influx into India. The problem has been framed in Manipur in incendiary language, ignoring transnational kinship relations
Wed, Jun 28, 2023
Sanjib Baruah writes: A question from Manipur: Who is an ST?Subscriber Only
May 09,2023 15:44:13 PM
The category Scheduled Tribe privileges indigeneity over citizenships, and often leaves out the marginalised from the benefits of reservation
Wed, May 10, 2023
The Donald Trump Show is back: Will turning his indictment into a spectacle help the former US president?Subscriber Only
April 03,2023 18:54:00 PM
If the case against Trump advances, repeated mention of the charge of hush money to a porn star is unlikely to bolster his prospects. If the case falls apart in court, it will help him
Tue, Apr 04, 2023
Former President Donald Trump was not a candidate in the US elections, whose results were declared on Wednesday. But he cast a long shadow over themSubscriber Only
November 09,2022 20:02:52 PM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Election of a large group of election denialists to the Congress less than a year after the political violence at the US Capitol is significant — not just for its impact on Trump’s political fortunes. They do not accept the legitimacy of Biden's presidency
Fri, Nov 11, 2022
Bangladesh and India: Breaking the impasse on the Teesta water-sharing talksSubscriber Only
September 15,2022 04:06:26 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: It is time we consider having a moratorium on the engineering of the world’s last remaining free-flowing rivers–some of which fortunately, are in these parts of the world -- and rethink the framework of regional cooperation on water-related matters
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
What Trumpism in the US tells us about the dangers to democracySubscriber Only
August 25,2022 04:00:51 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Can a democracy – even the world’s leading one – make itself safe against its voters and the politicians they elect?
Thu, Aug 25, 2022
The dangerous intellectual fad of ‘civilisationism’Subscriber Only
June 04,2022 04:15:25 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: It is an effort to expand or narrow an imagined ‘us’ against an equally imagined ‘them’.
Sat, Jun 04, 2022
Time to bid goodbye to AFSPASubscriber Only
April 04,2022 04:38:04 AM
It’s only prudent to repeal this Act now. Study its record to strengthen the foundation of Indian democracy
Mon, Apr 04, 2022
UN’s Ukraine vote shows the racial subtext of global politicsSubscriber Only
March 26,2022 03:33:56 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: The ambivalence of many countries in condemning Russia has made the fault line between Europe and non-Europe visible
Sun, Mar 27, 2022
Why the nature of the Capitol attack is hotly contested in USSubscriber Only
January 05,2022 04:00:47 AM
🔴 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, Jan 05, 2022
What the 1971 refugees have to do with Indian politics todaySubscriber Only
December 15,2021 03:03:24 AM
🔴 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.
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
There is more to the evictions in Assam than the demands of ‘development’Subscriber Only
October 08,2021 03:50:33 AM
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.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021
How ideologies of national parties are domesticated by Northeast India’s grassroots politicsSubscriber Only
August 26,2021 03:55:29 AM
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
Fri, Aug 27, 2021
The predicament of Ashraf GhaniSubscriber Only
August 02,2021 04:05:41 AM
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
Mon, Aug 02, 2021
BJP’s Assam triumph has one caveat: Akhil GogoiSubscriber Only
May 08,2021 03:21:38 AM
Sanjib Baruah writes: Despite the electoral failure of the anti-CAA platform, Gogoi’s victory might prove to be politically consequential in coming months.
Sat, May 08, 2021
Despite ruling party’s silence, immigration from Bangladesh remains a theme in Assam politicsSubscriber Only
April 09,2021 03:07:20 AM
It will continue to animate and shape the state’s politics in profound and unpredictable ways in the foreseeable future.
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
Assault on US Capitol was based on white supremacist beliefs that has marked Trump’s politicsSubscriber Only
January 18,2021 02:00:34 AM
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, Jan 18, 2021
Appointment of a Native American as Interior Secretary is a step in accepting America’s colonial pastSubscriber Only
December 28,2020 04:33:41 AM
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, Dec 28, 2020
US has viewed democracy promotion as a foreign policy concern. It’s time it rebuilds democracy at homeSubscriber Only
November 09,2020 03:23:16 AM
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.
Mon, Nov 09, 2020
Can Americans count on a peaceful transition of political power?Subscriber Only
October 28,2020 03:59:48 AM
The fears about the possibility of a peaceful presidential transition point towards a crisis of liberal democracy that has uniquely American characteristics.
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
Question about stakeholders in the Naga conflict still needs a satisfactory answerSubscriber Only
August 22,2020 04:05:14 AM
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.
Sat, Aug 22, 2020Journalism of Courage
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