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Rajeev Bhattacharyya
Rajeev Bhattacharyya is a senior journalist in Assam in India’s northeast.
Rajeev Bhattacharya is a senior journalist in Assam in India’s northeast. He has worked with The Telegraph, The Indian Express, The Times of India and Times Now, and was the managing editor of Seven Sisters Post. He is a Chevening Fellow and author of “ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn” (2023), “Rendezvous With Rebels: Journey to Meet India’s Most Wanted Men” (2014 ), “Lens & The Guerrilla: Insurgency in India’s Northeast” (2012), and Paresh Baruahr Sandhanot ( 2013 and in Assamese). He reports on India’s northeast and its border regions with Myanmar, Bhutan, China and Bangladesh. Follow him on X.
May 12, 2025
Why India’s Northeast Frontier is More Vulnerable Than Its Western Border with Pakistan
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
Conflicts in the Northeast are multilayered and covert, ranging from the political and social to the environmental, and with cross-border linkages.
April 22, 2025
Why Are Tokay Geckos Being Smuggled Out of India’s Northeast?
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
This lizard species, which is valued for its use in traditional medicine in China and Southeast Asia, can earn a smuggler around $70,000 per lizard.
April 08, 2025
‘Right Time For India to Intervene Aggressively In Myanmar’: NUG
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The appeal came days before the Indian prime minister met junta leader Gen Min Aung Hlaing in Bangkok.
March 28, 2025
Conflict in India’s Manipur Takes a New Turn With Intra-Community Clashes
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
In recent weeks, Meitei militias have clashed, as have Zomi and Hmar groups that came together against the Meitei majority.
March 24, 2025
Concept of ‘Greater Mizoram’ Gets a Shot in the Arm From Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The coming together of areas inhabited by communities in India’s Mizoram and Myanmar’s Chin State has New Delhi’s tacit support. Myanmar’s junta is not amused.
February 16, 2025
President’s Rule Imposed in Disturbed Manipur in India’s Northeast
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The move came days after the resignation of the border state’s controversial chief minister.
February 07, 2025
Coal Mine Disaster in India’s Assam Opens Can of Worms
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and politicians.
January 13, 2025
India Reimposes Restrictions on Foreign Nationals Visiting Three Northeastern States
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
There have been instances of foreigners engaging in activities considered harmful to national security in the volatile region.
January 08, 2025
India’s Response to World’s Largest Dam in China Faces Local Opposition
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government secrecy over the project.
December 28, 2024
5 Factors That Catapulted Arakan Army to Unprecedented Success Against the Myanmar Military
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The AA has entered into alliances and built on terrain and other advantages to emerge as a formidable organization in Rakhine State.
December 23, 2024
Smuggled Commodities From India and Bangladesh are Lifelines for Myanmar’s Arakan
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
But they may not be enough to prevent an impending crisis in Arakan brought on by scarcity of essential commodities and soaring prices.
December 01, 2024
Traveling Through Myanmar’s War-Ravaged Arakan
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
In the region of Myanmar now held by the Arakan Army, the impacts of war and decades of economic neglect are easily visible.
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