Suraj Gogoi @char_chapori Twitter profile

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Suraj Gogoi

10 months

Happy to share my essay on Miya museum and the question of minority in Assam for @fountainink

The sealing of a Miya museum and the arrest of its founders under terror charges shows how the majoritarian gaze is affecting this minority in Assam.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 month

A portrait of Muslims in India. 11 homes of Muslim families demolished for having beef in their fridge. Residents protested in Vadodara for allotting a flat to a Muslim woman. A hospital & doctor's car attacked for treating a Muslim patient in Telangana. All in just last week.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

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This is just a glimpse of floods in Assam every year. It takes place not once but many times. It is despite such flooding that people are expected to retain documents to prove citizenship that goes back beyond 1971. That is just one of the image of violence of NRC for you.

Zia Haq

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A farmer in Assam’s Duliajan, an oil-rich region, struggles to save his calf from surging flood waters. Devastating flooding has impacted over a million people, killed 46 and swept away houses, embankments and bridges. 28 districts have been inundated.

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3 years

It is time we collectively write an obituary of Assam. Time has indeed come. My homeland, language and culture in their current form and interest is unredeemable. It has become necrophilic, grotesque, anti-human and evil. This is the last sky. I am ashamed and horrified.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

10 months

Today is the anniversary of the brutal murder of Moinul Haque. That image is hard to escape our memory, of him being shot down & Bijoy Bania jumping on his mutilated body. Sharing this piece I wrote for @scroll_in in Haque's memory.

Fury is past, nothing but fear: Reflections on Moinul Haque’s killing in Assam, one year later

A meditation on the relationship between ritual and politics in New India.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

The image clicked by Champak is so very powerful. A little boy trying to vent his anger with a catapult, aiming towards the raging fire in the Baghjan blowout. The river Dangori separates the catapult and the blowout site.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

In Solidarity with Prof Kham Khan Siang Haushing @kksuanh An FIR has been filed against him. This is very unfortunate and uncalled for. This reveals the philistinism, insecurity and violence. It infact gives more legitimacy to his voice. More power to you, Professor.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

Social waste discarded by the NRC machine in Assam. Morally the guilt should touch anyone who support NRC. Your subjectivity, caste and religious location doesn’t absolve your complicity in enabling such a monstrous juridico-political infrastructure of the state.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Meitei intellectuals hitting rock bottom of shame. Bimol Akoijam on Manipur: "The colossal violence of the Partition was possible because of the collapse of moral compass under pressure from the frenzy generated by the separatist & exclusivist agendas of communal politics."

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

In 2017, Yogi Adityanath was present in a stage where a comment was made by a co-speaker that mothers and daughters should be pulled out of their graves and raped. Today, a rape victim’s family was denied the basic human decency of attend the last rights.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

Some homemade beef rendang for lunch.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Portrait of a Muslim's life in India Husband is killed. The very next day their house is bulldozed. As you grieve the death, the surviving family members have no roof to live under. You are then called illegal, arrested, & potentially charged with UAPA

Assam Police arrest wife, daughter of fish trader who allegedly died in custody

Six persons have been held for allegedly torching a police station. UAPA has been invoked in another case.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Not trying to fool around! I received my PhD today from NUS. Today of all days. I share this small achievement with everyone who has spent time with me & shaped my ideas. Thank you to everyone who gave me hope, courage & support with their friendship.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 months

Yogendra Yadav is shooting his ideas everywhere now. One ought not to forget that he supports NRC.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

1/Who killed Safikul Islam? How can we think of its connection to Bhawarlal Jain's murder? Islam, a fish seller, was brought to the Batadrava Police Station in Nagaon, Assam for being drunk. Cops from the station had allegedly demanded "10k rupees & a duck" as bribe from him.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Over 100 people have died by suicide over the fear of being sent to a detention centre or being marked out. This anxiety keeps people in constant fear of the police or any state authority forcing them to change houses, avoid roads and often try to remain out of public view.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Zizek writes about Manipur ( gets it right & speaks about Kuki victimhood) & myth of neutrality, of laws, state and more. Wait is now of Fuhrers from JNU to respond with their ethnofascism and you don't understand the 'ground reality' type gospels.

Manipur Is Not Only in India - The Philosophical Salon

To a Western European with a vague knowledge of Italian, “Manipur” automatically associates with “mani pulite” (pure hands), the big anti-corruption campaign in the early 1990s that changed the whole...

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

@veronixgregorio Also, they often come to enjoy the resources of the “weak”.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

For Himanta, Miya Muslims in Assam are incapable of becoming human, one who have a right to culture, life & religion. They are seen as only capable of becoming jihadi, scavenger, cancer, etc. Mind you, he doesn’t lack any audience in Assam, with or without BJP.

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@BBCHindi

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असम के मुख्यमंत्री हिमंता बिस्वा सरमा बोले- 'महंगी सब्जियों के लिए मियां मुसलमान ज़िम्मेदार' पूरी ख़बर-

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Suraj Gogoi

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3 years

NRC is a barbaric document. I am deeply ashamed that this evil was harvested in Assam. The final switch will soon be pulled, an evil touch of Assamese nationalism. To the intellectuals who support it, I condemn you with every atom in my being.

Centre asks Assam to immediately issue rejection slips to NRC-excluded

Over 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants were left out of the final register that took five years to compile.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Some thoughts with @Apoorvanand__ on the use of Jihad by right wing in India and attacks on Muslims in Assam. Their constant vilification by both Hindutva forces and Assamese nationalists continues unabated.

The Wire

@thewire_in

2 years

'Jihadi' activities are hard to define legally but the term has a great purchase in the minds of the constituents of the BJP. 'Jihadi' is one of the tropes used by the state administration to vilify Muslims in Assam. | @Apoorvanand__ and @char_chapori

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

5 years

Wonder why Northeast India opposes CAB-CAA and not NRC? Do you want to read some alternate views of students from Northeast who oppose both and also show how they are part of the same coin? If these questions bother you, browse through this reading list.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Nazimuddin and I wrote this reflective and emotional piece on Post-historical political necrophilia in Assam. Please give it a read.

Post-historical POLITICAL NECROPHILIA IN ASSAM | Countercurrents

We are shaken and frozen. Is this the last sky? We can hardly gather words to write this. Assembling them to describe the heinousness of the crime we saw is

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Today is the anniversary of the Nellie massacre that took place in 1983. In this piece, I write against the amnesia of the Nellie massacre & turn to the discourse of martyrdom and political emotions to think about Nellie and more.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

7 months

The state killed Boyat Ali. He was evicted & left in the cold without shelter. He died homeless. Yet you see people questioning his citizenship & how can he be someone from Assam. His death & existence become nothing. Hospitality evaporates, evil takes over the mind. Brutal.

NORTHEAST TODAY

@NortheastToday

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#Assam | In a tragic incident, Boyat Ali, a 55-year-old resident of Pancharatna NC village in Goalpara, Assam, succumbed to extreme cold weather conditions after being evicted from his home during a joint operation by Goalpara administration and the forest department.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Vocational update I shall join the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences @ RV University this August as an Assistant Professor. I am happy to return to Bangalore after a decade, this time to both learn and teach.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Ethnofascist restaurant near Guwahati airport refusing to serve food to people having "doubtful citizenship" or "illegal immigrants". This is an apt indicator of the extent of social decay in Assam. PC: Parth Protim Borkotoky.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

Today is another example of how Dalits are twice-humiliated, even after their death. Political necrophilia has been a dominant political language of the far right and the upper caste in India which survives with disturbing impunity.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

What does an Assamese mother look like? Many are apparently offended by how this woman is being described. I urge them to spell out how an Assamese mother looks & if there is an accepted definition of an Assamese? Trying to find one led to & sustains violence of minorities.

Sahin Dafader

@SahinAleya

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An Assamese mother sings about the continuous oppression of Muslims in Assam. Hemant Biswa Sharma's misrule has been highlighted there.

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Suraj Gogoi

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1 year

Love Jihad is now a part of public policy in Assam. Also, just casually and officially, Rohingyas are declared as “infiltrators, smugglers and insurgents” and increased surveillance on them is recommended.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

5 years

NPR is happening. Union cabinet approves a fund of 8500 crore to update NPR. Brace yourself to be marked as 'usual residents' from April 2020. Or, we can RESIST. REFUSE. I will.

Union Cabinet clears Rs 3,900 crore plan to update NPR, once powered by UPA govt

The exercise will start from April next year. It is a list of “usual residents” of the country.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

From the killing fields of Assam A detailed report on the custodial death of Asiqul Islam, a 20 year old in Assam.

Rokibuz Zaman

@ROKIBUZZAMAN2

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“We have never seen a pistol..They planted the pistols” A custody death in Assam led to the burning down of a PS which led to demolition of the houses of the accused and then another custody death. This time of a student who had surrendered. @scroll_in

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@char_chapori

2 years

5/Adding to the agony, today Nagaon administration demolished the properties of those accused in burning the police station yesterday. This includes the hose of Safikul Islam. Calls for genocide looms in the air. This is another victim of double victimhood of the Muslim

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Here are some questions: Do Meities have no agency at all? Are they all behaving due to "provocations"? Have they no power at all? First, Bimol blamed geo & colonialism alone for the crisis, now "communal politics" for assault on women? This is as good as blaming the victim:

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@char_chapori

2 years

3/In both the cases the real cause and victimhood is wiped off. Yes, Jain was the victim, but he was killed because the perpetrator thought he was a Muslim. In Islam's case, his death is not even discussed but how now Bangladeshis are taking over Assam take precedence.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

5 months

How are NRC and CAA related? With CAA, Bengali origin Muslims, predominantly Miyas, in Assam become the official/political and primary victims of NRC. This is only one affinity.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

2/ When his family came to look for him, they were told that he was unwell & admitted to a hospital. They found him dead & kept in the morgue. How did he die is the question? But it also raises the question of how police have been taking life of people very cheaply in the state.

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Suraj Gogoi

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2 years

4/The angry mob who upon knowing that Islam was killed set fire to the police station. They are now profiled by Assamese nationalist, including media, as Bangladeshis, illegals & so on. We see how things are deflected to make a demon out of the Muslim erasing their victimhood.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Not surprised that AAP, Assam is peddling anti-Muslim hate & profiling. In this letter, it calls for stricter actions agains jihadi & anti-national forces in Assam. A singular act of the police station being burnt in Batadrava have led to the profiling of all Muslims in Assam.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Like women for facing violence at the hands of men. Miyas for being Muslims for the violence they face. Victims of Nellie for being in Assam. This is how all perpatrators wash their hands. I am in no doubt anymore, that you are one. Your repressed violence is for all to see.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 months

What would you call people who oppose CAA & support NRC? One such profile is of the Assamese ethnofascist, the other types are the likes of Yogendra Yadav & Shekhar Gupta. @angshuman_ch & I decoded their selective politics on NRC-CAA in this piece in 2019.

Yogendra Yadav and Shekhar Gupta vouch for a monolithic Assamese identity; get history and politics...

It is a logical fallacy to support NRC and oppose CAA, as both feeds into each other.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Another Meitei nationalist and intellectual, Bhagat Oinam here says rape is a normal in India insinuating why fuss about Manipur. Earlier he had profiled Kukis and Nagas as ‘headhunters’. He also rationalised it as a tactic of violence that ‘civilised’ Meitei should turn to.

obsiquous_guy

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Bhagat Oinam, a professor of JNU said that rape is a common thing for India. It seems as though he is justifying the recent viral video where tribal girls and women are paraded naked by meitei men and he seems to be against Parliament discussion about crimes on women. #Manipur

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

Finished a chapter, cooking biryani today!

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Suraj Gogoi

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4 months

How to speak about oneself without speaking about it.

NDTV

@ndtv

4 months

Congress Leaders Most Vocal Against BJP End Up Joining It: Himanta Biswa Sarma

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

I write about how eviction has become normalised in Assam & where the majority of its victims are Muslim minorities. Eviction is not just related to rent but is mired in Assamese ethno-politics that desires an elimination & uprooting of the "Bangladeshi".

The Quint

@TheQuint

3 years

#Opinion | "For the Assamese & Hindu nationalists alike, the Muslim in Assam is a definite enemy who is continuously targeted through various legislations," writes @char_chapori .

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Suraj Gogoi

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1 year

This is an example of being a talkative mute akin to Alexis de Tocqueville who justified Algerian colonial oppression by France, although remained critical of American slavery. There is more.

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Suraj Gogoi

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3 years

Neither Assam nor Mizoram treats its minorities with dignity or equality. The Assam-Mizoram conflict is an interesting clash of two types of legitimate violence. In this two-part series for @TheQuint , I write about borders & the NE.

Assam & Mizoram CMs Clashed, But It’s Minorities Who Suffer In The Northeast

It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state's interests and sovereignty.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

All Assam Students' Union and AAGSP, during the peak of the Assam Movement in 1981, submitted a proposal to the Centre in which shooting people if found to be crossing the border without documents was one of their suggestions. So much for being non-political.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Summertime but feels like spring @manoranjanpegu and I have signed a book contract with Routledge to write about social and political life in contemporary Assam by situating the figure of the tribal in conversation with caste Assamese society and nationalism.

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@char_chapori

2 years

Mosques set on fire. Assault on students in the capital of India. Linguistic assaults on minorities. Hate and violence has become respectable in New India.

Pieter Friedrich

@FriedrichPieter

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Chaos in Madhya Pradesh, central India, as a mosque set on fire by Hindu nationalist rioters.

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Suraj Gogoi

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3 years

The Australian brutally obliterating Sanghi dreams. @australian showing an apt display of parrhesia, the courage to tell the truth with the right set of emotions, and commitment. This is doubly important with dread, despair, and darkness around. Thank you!

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

8 months

This starts tomorrow! I will be talking about centrality of death to politics. From Gaza to NRC, I hope to take multiple stories as guide to navigate the topographies of death and politics.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 month

Foucault passed away 40 years ago on this day. Sharing this well known conversation between Chomsky & Foucault on power, violence, institutions and justice.

Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Power vs Justice (1971)

A few clips of Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault discussing justice, power, and the notion of human nature in their famous 1971 debate. This is a version of a...

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

5 months

Kolkata Circa 2020.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Such vulnerable people are called "settler colonialists" in Assam by activists and academics alike. NRC is a form of punishment. What more proof shall suffice?

Angshuman Choudhury

@angshuman_ch

3 years

Remembering a tragedy / On this day, 2 years ago, at least 40 people from Sontali ( #Assam ) were injured & 2 killed when the bus they were traveling in to attend their #NRC reverification hearings overturned as it hit a truck ferrying burning hot tar (which fell on them). +

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Suraj Gogoi

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2 years

Please join us for this event on minority, citizenship and racism hosted by Stanford South Asia Working Group. I will be in conversation with Shikha to discuss the figure of the “citizen-subject” in South Asia. Kindly register if you are interested.

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Suraj Gogoi

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2 years

This is evil. If this is not a sign of sickness, I don’t know what is. The limits of Hindu majoritarian politics, reason & logic are unknown & infinite. Anything can be turned against a Muslim in this country. How will they live? This is the last sky.

Muslim eatery owner arrested in UP for packing meat dishes in newspaper with images of Hindu deities

Mohammad Talib was detained on a complaint by a member of Hindu Jagran Manch.

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@char_chapori

2 years

Eliminating the minority is not just a naked fantasy, it is increasingly normalised in acts of the majority in everyday life. This is enough proof and a reminder that hate has been sufficiently weaponised in India. This is terrorism.

Asaduddin Owaisi

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कुछ देर पहले छिजारसी टोल गेट पर मेरी गाड़ी पर गोलियाँ चलाई गयी। 4 राउंड फ़ायर हुए। 3-4 लोग थे, सब के सब भाग गए और हथियार वहीं छोड़ गए। मेरी गाड़ी पंक्चर हो गयी, लेकिन मैं दूसरी गाड़ी में बैठ कर वहाँ से निकल गया। हम सब महफ़ूज़ हैं। अलहमदु’लिलाह।

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3 years

On HindiDivas I am reminded of the fear I saw in people not knowing how to speak Hindi, particularly in front of the Army. This fear arising from this lack of knowing the language adds to the symbolic achievement of AFSPA and policing in the NE.

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@char_chapori

2 years

Today is the anniversary of Nellie genocide that took place in the middle of Assam Movement in 1983. It is the most significant but not the only bloody trail left by Assamese nationalism. @angshuman_ch & I remember those forgotten & erased victims.

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The carnage should have been followed by attempts at truth-telling but 39 years on, none of that has happened, write @char_chapori and @angshuman_ch . #nelliemassacre

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My brief take on Islamophobic comments made by Assam’s CM. The comments reveal his narcissism where roles are reversed and Muslims are seen as enemies, despite being victims. @scroll_in

Assam chief minister’s attack on Barack Obama shows how Islamophobia is dulling India’s soul

Indian Muslims, despite being victims, are seen not only as guilty, but enemies too.

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@char_chapori

4 months

CAA will make religion ubiquitous to public policy, bureaucracy and citizenship. It will grown everywhere. India in the “iron cage” of a total religion now. Wake up!

Government to record parents’ religion to register births

Parents will now be required to separately record the religion of both the child’s father and mother, according to Model Rules drafted by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs

www.thehindu.com

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@char_chapori

2 years

Zubair is a citizen with parrhesia—the courage to tell the truth and make truth. He is a type of citizen we all should aspire to be. But as a minority-citizen to have such courage & share such responsibility for truth makes him a citizen of humanity.

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We have been saying this since 2019 that you can’t understand CAA without NRC in Assam. This affinity between the two were planned & organically related. The NRC machine’s full potential is exposed with CAA & vice versa. The new citizenship game begins. Regional meets national.

Rokibuz Zaman

@ROKIBUZZAMAN2

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Three lakh to six lakh of those excluded from the NRC could apply for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

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Suraj Gogoi

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5 months

On Nellie Massacre’s anniversary, I wrote about how the caste Assamese enjoys a “wage of indigenousness” in comparison to the veiled bodies of Bengali-origin Muslims of Assam. Their sub-human treatment has only grown since Nellie, like ivy on the wall.

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@char_chapori

3 years

No. Caste is elementary to Assamese consciousness and nationalism.

Jayanta Kalita

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Caste-based society is an alien concept in Assam and the rest of NE. Perhaps, govt could have offered incentives for interfaith marriages. But then, there are more pressing issues that require urgent attention

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2 years

Slowing down in Sadiya with mom’s favourite summer snacks—fried crickets! Ideal with some rice wine.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

This is mother of most footballer biographies. What a childhood! What a fantastic player, now a world champion. Someone said Latin American football doesn't have any character left. They should read this. Football is culture for them not just a sport.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

In times of barbaric narrowness of nation-states, Nepal’s commitment to vaccinate its 20,000 refugees against Covid deserves a robust appreciation. Such a humanitarian gesture is urgently needed across the world. Shine on!

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 months

Looking forward to attend this workshop at CSDS. I will present a paper exploring the relationship between rights and surveillance in the NRC process. In particular, I will explore the moral economy of surveillance of both state and society critical to evaluate citizenship.

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3 years

On Darrang murder Late realisation that, perhaps the article was not accessible for many. Hope this is readable.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 months

Communalism Update Assam at it again. This is neurosis.

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@scroll_in

4 months

Assam: Sale of land between individuals from different religions restricted for three months

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5 months

AASU getting another lifeline for its parasitic politics that only benefits the caste Assamese. We are “different” narratives loading.

Press Trust of India

@PTI_News

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VIDEO | Members of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) stage a protest in Guwahati against the Centre's decision to implement the CAA.

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Suraj Gogoi

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Intolerance much. Not just a problem of the Congress. Most liberals in India share extreme discomfort & can't digest the idea that Muslims can contest elections & have an independent voice. This perpetual targeting of Owaisi is a testimony to the erosions of the idea of India.

Alka Lamba 🇮🇳

@LambaAlka

2 years

इस नफ़रती ट्टु को पहचानों तो जाने...? Hint: इन्हें इनके कपडों से पहचानों 🤣.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

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Individual actions draw a lot of inspiration and impunity from the state. The state too is nourished by such individual actions. Since this happened in Assam, the weight of the word Bangladeshi is used with very specific intent and awareness of the victims.

Nikita Jain

@nikita_jain15

2 years

We had booked an Uber for Kamakhya in #Guwahati . The online was payment but he wanted cash. He then got aggressive and beat @MohdAbuzarCh with a rod. When we said we will file a complaint he tried to run over my colleague with his car. He also called us Bangladeshi @assampolice

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

We write on police brutality in Assam by anchoring Safikul Islam's custodial death & the subsequent harassment, arrest of his family & unlawful demolition of their home. A singular incident becomes sufficient and additional means to call all Bengali Muslims as terrorists.

The Quint

@TheQuint

2 years

#Opinion | "Regional media has erased the custodial death of #SafikulIslam and the demolishing of homes. The whole narrative has shifted to a single point, ie, the burning of the police station," write @char_chapori & Nazimuddin Siddique.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

All Kukis must oppose NRC. This is that time. Profiling & targeting someone as "illegal", as if they are things & not people, is the logic of NRC. It is a legal & bureaucratic maze that manufactures suspicion & paper trail, leaving many stateless, wounded. In solidarity, Prof.

Kham Khan Suan Hausing

@kksuanh

1 year

There is a deliberate falsehood campaign against my electoral ID. Willful spread of lies without knowing the truth about my background is a serious legal matter. Think twice before you post #ManipurViolence

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Lies & hate have become the rituals of New India. NRC violates the lives of citizens & turns them into subjects. Just in Assam, 1.9 million people are rendered doubtful, imagine how many more will be subjected to statelessness slowly but surely with NPR.

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

3 years

Happy independence day India. Independence from these lies, deceit and manipulations. May we stay together in the face of everyday polarisation

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 months

Rakibul Hussain (Congress) from Dhubri (Assam) won by a margin of over 10 lakh votes, defeating Badruddin Ajmal.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Free flowing anti-Muslim hate and profiling of “Bangladeshis” in Assam as rapist, thief, dacoits, and a threat to law and order. This is organic to Assamese nationalists, centuries old. Not an imported variety of hate and disgust for the minorities. Please watch this report.

News18

@CNNnews18

2 years

#MegaExclusive | Hectares of Satra land in #Assam occupied by Bangladeshis. Prodip Hazarika, MLA Assam in an #Exclusive conversation with CNN News18. @PreetyAxomia shares #Live details. Watch #NationAt5 with @AnchorAnandN .

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

The Eye of Dzuko Valley watching over borderlands.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL. Rohingya is a human. Bangladeshi too are humans. Apparently, Bengali = Illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya.

Paresh Rawal

@SirPareshRawal

2 years

of course the fish is not the issue AS GUJARATIS DO COOK AND EAT FISH . BUT LET ME CLARIFY BY BENGALI I MEANT ILLEGAL BANGLA DESHI N ROHINGYA. BUT STILL IF I HAVE HURT YOUR FEELINGS AND SENTIMENTS I DO APOLOGISE. 🙏

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

My views on the movie Anek which profiles northeast with the same mainstream gaze. In its singular narrative, it blankets NE as a homogeneous zone filled with violence, including the desire to save it for the nation.

Anek’s ‘Saviour Complex’: Northeast Needs to be ‘Understood’, Not Saved

The movie is a regressive return to the colonial gaze that sees the Northeast as just a frontier.

www.thequint.com

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

After the Darrang murder, Assamese vernacular print media is filled with news & concerns of "illegal", "encroachers", "foreigner", "final solution", & all other qualifiers and descriptions that collectively vilify & demonise the figure of the "Bangladeshi".

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

5 years

In this jointly written article with @angshuman_ch , we critique the conscious efforts of a few Assamese nationalist and sympathisers to erase the anxieties, humiliation, and dispossession one had to undergo through the NRC process.

A narrow nationalism again

The positions held by some intellectuals on the NRC only further legitimise a rapid descension into regional exclusivism

www.thehindu.com

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Prominent Kuki civil society groups like Kuki Inpi, Manipur are in favour of NRC in the state. There is a consensus between the state & large section of Meities for NRC. Don't be mistaken, the both want NRC. In time, the "illegal immigrants" will be thrown under the bus.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Destroying homes of the accused is a draconian abuse of power. Normalisation of such use has turned our democracy into a nightmare for minorities & completely eroded the ethico-political of the state. One is left to stare in horror if there are any limits to violence in India.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

11 months

Let’s correct it. Citizens protesting against potential illegal eviction by the Assam government. Unable to provide social infrastructure for all citizens, Muslims are singled out and blamed for governments incapability and failure.

Megh Updates 🚨™

@MeghUpdates

11 months

Assam: illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are protesting against eviction notice on illegally encroached govt land in Dubri. Illegal Bangladeshi muslim immigrants have changed demographic landscape of Assam, leading to displacement of indigenous communities in many districts & govt

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

10 months

We have run out of vocabulary to describe the evil and violence Muslims are facing in India. No human being deserves this. There is a project of annihilation.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Iqbal compared Indian Muslims with the Jews. Although the context is different now, the condition of Muslim subjects has become most fragile & vulnerable. They are body without organs & can be killed anywhere, anytime. Only they know the real measure of this new fear & terror.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Vernacular Surveillance Tagging Assam CM, Samujjal Bhattacharya, & Assam Police for anything critical on Assam is the new norm and pre-occupation of Assamese nationalists. The profile of the nationalist is also very plural--academics, journalists, novelists, artists, you name it

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

On Graffiti and Assamese politics Akhil Gogoi is still in jail. Anga Art Collective based out of Guwahati made a graffiti where Gogoi is seen raising his arm amidst many policemen surrounding him. The artists felt unsafe about the consequences & covered it up with white paint.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

The York Film Festival (13-15th Aug) on Citizenship in India has assembled an exciting list of short films. For the film "Miya poetry: The poetry of resistance" I will be in conversation with Prof Yasmin Saikia & @abdulkazad . Please tune in.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Now this gives a motive. Eviction, nationalism and creation of statelessness—an organic relationship. The right wing reaping harvest of Assamese nationalism.

atanu bhuyan

@atanubhuyan

3 years

Out of 10,000 people evicted in Gorukhuti, name of 6,000 people missing in NRC: CM @himantabiswa

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

3 years

Assam is officially a Hindu state now as the horns of its state animal is purified by such a public ritual. The slaves of Assamese nationalism will have lucid dreams tonight.

Himanta Biswa Sarma

@himantabiswa

3 years

Today is a historic day for Assam & India. We have taken an extraordinary step of burning stockpile of 2479 horns of single-horned Rhinos, first-of-its-kind globally in volume terms, pursuing vision of Hon PM Sri @narendramodi of putting an end to poaching in Assam 1/2 @PMOIndia

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

NRC is the new Assamese religion that transcends the state, society and the public sphere. This sacredness of NRC makes intolerance socially respectable and even desirable.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

4 years

Yogendra Yadav is a supporter of fascist and xenophobic designs. Be it Assam NRC or asking people to lay roses for two fascists to peacefully roam the streets where people get lynched with shocking regularity. Here is an article showing his portrait:

Yogendra Yadav and Shekhar Gupta vouch for a monolithic Assamese identity; get history and politics...

It is a logical fallacy to support NRC and oppose CAA, as both feeds into each other.

www.firstpost.com

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

@Apoorvanand__ and I write about weaponisation of food prices, fascism, vernacular violence and Miya Muslim question in Assam. Please do give a read Rising tomato prices: The latest weapon against Muslims in India via @AJEnglish

Rising tomato prices: The latest weapon against Muslims in India

Assam state’s leader has blamed Bengali-speaking Muslim vegetable vendors for price spikes. It’s absurd but dangerous.

www.aljazeera.com

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

1 year

Meiteis blame the Kukis. Profile them as narco-terrorists, illegal & more. The ruling party blames external forces in Myanmar. We are being guided by a 'pure' party & society towards a myopic and violent world. That's some narcissism, obscenity & purity in guise of a victim.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

This case captures the real spirit of NRC. Families are struggling to live together. They are humiliated & torn apart. Justice & human rights are utopic for victims of NRC. This is such a tragic case that paints the everyday reality of the NRC process.

Angshuman Choudhury

@angshuman_ch

2 years

Father of 15-yr old boy with mental illness tells him to "go to Bangladesh" in a fit of anger. Boy runs away & when caught by cops, tells them he is going to Bangladesh. Cops detain him, refer his case to Foreigners Tribunal & he is declared a foreigner.

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Suraj Gogoi

@char_chapori

2 years

Why is anyone surprised with the idea of new NRC? Reverification or new NRC is a logical conclusion. There will never be a final NRC. Period. Also, where are those free and fair NRC minds? Back to the fence, changing colour or liberated?

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