Nandita Haksar
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Leaving home on 17 October 2011, Nandita Haksar and her husband, Sebastian Hongray, drove across Nepal to reach the Chicken Neck, the slim strip of land which connects the Northeast to the rest of India. From the Chicken Neck, they went up to the one of the easternmost towns of the country, Mayodia in Arunachal Pradesh. Making a U-turn in Mayodia, they swept south to the town of Moreh, a busy centre of trade (both legal and illegal) on the border between India ...
For the first time a Naga and Indian human rights activist have jointly written a book on how military rule has been imposed on the peoples of the North East by a democratic Indian State.
The focus of the book is the unspeakable horrors committed by the Indian security forces during a counter-insurgency operation code-named Operation Bluebird and how ordinary Naga villagers with the help of a small group of lawyers and activists fought for justice against the ...
This resource book is brimming with ideas of activities for school children and also for courses at the graduate level. It will also useful for those who want to do research. The book is by a human rights lawyer challenging the way Nagas have so far been represented in history and in anthropology. The resource book deals with the impact of globalization on every aspect of Naga society from the dress code and fashions; traditional cooking to fast food and art to ...
The parliament attack case has generated many controversies but in this book Nandita Haksar throws light on the range of political, legal and historical issues that have arisen in the campaign to save two Kashmiri men from the gallows. She does this through a series of open letters written to public figures, personal friends and comrades, in which she links the immediate issues of the campaign with the larger problems of secularism, nationalism and democracy. ...