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Sangmuan Hangsing

Manipur, New Delhi
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Covers:  I cover topics related to borderland studies, development policies in Northeast India, indigenous rights, governance, minority issues, regional politics, the Act East Policy, and inclusive development
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Beyond Naypyidaw: India's Myanmar Policy Needs a Borderlands Strategy

Beyond Naypyidaw: India's Myanmar Policy Needs a Borderlands Strategy

India's Myanmar policy must move beyond Naypyidaw: fragmented authority across the borderlands now determines…

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From borderland to India’s strategic resource frontier

From borderland to India’s strategic resource frontier

As India's search for critical minerals intensifies, Northeast India is increasingly entering national strate…

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How Manipur's prolonged conflict is reshaping communities

How Manipur's prolonged conflict is reshaping communities

Manipur violence is expanding, with the killing of church leaders highlighting a wider pattern of Kuki and Na…

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India-Vietnam Relations and the Uneven Geography of Act East

India-Vietnam Relations and the Uneven Geography of Act East

India-Vietnam relations are entering a phase where strategic convergence is moving faster than the geography …

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An impossible fight: Why peace in Manipur keeps losing ground

An impossible fight: Why peace in Manipur keeps losing ground

The killing of three church leaders in Manipur last week generated grief across communities already exhausted…

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Book Review | Zoramthanga's Memoir Stays With The Insurgency And Leaves The Peace At A Distance |...

Book Review | Zoramthanga's Memoir Stays With The Insurgency And Leaves The Peace At A Distance |...

'From Guerrilla Fighter to Chief Minister', published by Penguin Random House in 2026, is written by the form…

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The Missing Frontier in India-Australia Relations

The Missing Frontier in India-Australia Relations

India and Australia have moved closer over the past few years in ways that are easy to follow. Defence cooper…

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Global Shocks, Uneven Transmission: The Northeast in India's Supply Chains

Global Shocks, Uneven Transmission: The Northeast in India's Supply Chains

Global disruptions move unevenly through India's supply chains and trade networks, reinforcing constraints in…

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How the India-Myanmar Border in the Northeast is Being Misread

How the India-Myanmar Border in the Northeast is Being Misread

The border is often spoken of as if it already exists in a fixed and continuous form, as if the line has been…

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Why Manipur's Census faces a crisis of trust

Why Manipur's Census faces a crisis of trust

The anxiety does not rest on procedure alone. It draws from a longer memory. Manipur Census figures from the …

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Peace in Manipur calls for more than talks in Guwahati

Peace in Manipur calls for more than talks in Guwahati

A meeting held outside the state, with a formation that had earlier been set aside, does not settle the quest…

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Ecological Sacrifice At The Altar Of Frontier Development In The Great Nicobar And Arunachal Prad...

Ecological Sacrifice At The Altar Of Frontier Development In The Great Nicobar And Arunachal Prad...

As India expands its infrastructure footprint from the Nicobar Islands to the eastern Himalayas, the critical…

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Recalibrating Act East from the Northeast India: Connectivity, Geopolitics and Frontier Governanc...

Recalibrating Act East from the Northeast India: Connectivity, Geopolitics and Frontier Governanc...

India's Act East Policy is anchored in a spatial imagination that situates the Northeast as the country's nat…

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Recalibrating Act East from the Northeast India: Connectivity, Geopolitics and Frontier Governanc...

Recalibrating Act East from the Northeast India: Connectivity, Geopolitics and Frontier Governanc...

India's Act East Policy is anchored in a spatial imagination that situates the Northeast as the country's nat…

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Service Economy, Caste Memory And The Racialisation Of Northeastern Bodies In Urban India | Outlo...

Service Economy, Caste Memory And The Racialisation Of Northeastern Bodies In Urban India | Outlo...

The labour of Northeastern workers is indispensable to urban service infrastructures, yet their identity rema…

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When a town listens to its rivers: Women-led restoration in Churachandpur

When a town listens to its rivers: Women-led restoration in Churachandpur

On a March morning in 2023, people began gathering along the banks of the Tuitha river near the Lajangphai-Th…

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Women and youth are reclaiming Churachandpur's rivers and green spaces

Women and youth are reclaiming Churachandpur's rivers and green spaces

Lamka, a fast-growing town in Manipur's Churachandpur district, stands at a crossroads. Hills that once held …

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Plantations in MP, forest loss in Arunachal: The uneven geography of green compliance

Plantations in MP, forest loss in Arunachal: The uneven geography of green compliance

In Arunachal Pradesh, forests are considered a part of the terrain before they are ever counted as forest cov…

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In Manipur, a 'popular' government is back. But questions remain

In Manipur, a 'popular' government is back. But questions remain

It will preside over a state that remains physically segmented, where free movement still depends on negotiat…

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For Northeast, Budget 2026 attempts to chart growth without a map

For Northeast, Budget 2026 attempts to chart growth without a map

From the Northeast, the Union Budget rarely arrives as a surprise. Its ambitions are familiar and its languag…

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Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

In the Northeast, belonging has thinned precisely where it should be most secure. Outside the region, citizen…

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Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

In the Northeast, belonging has thinned precisely where it should be most secure. Outside the region, citizen…

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Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma's Death Reveal About The Northeast...

In the Northeast, belonging has thinned precisely where it should be most secure. Outside the region, citizen…

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When A Calendar Becomes A Boundary: The Insidious Cultural Invasion Shaping Northeast India's Sch...

When A Calendar Becomes A Boundary: The Insidious Cultural Invasion Shaping Northeast India's Sch...

The strength of India lies in its capacity to hold multiple calendars and still recognise them as equally leg…

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