• 5 years ago
With more than 70 people reported dead and over 1.5 lakh displaced in a week, the Kokrajhar riots between Bodos and Muslims have again brought into focus certain issues that are not limited to Kokrajhar district, or for that matter to Assam. There will be the usual game of getting as much mileage from the dead and the displaced. There will be a lot of talk of Assam becoming another Bangladesh or even Pakistan, with careless fear mongering thrown in for good measure. There will be others who will sell the absurd fiction that almost no illegal migrants from Bangladesh exist in Assam. In our special show "Who Let Assam Burn" NewsX correspondent Shiv Pujan Jha brings you a ground report from Assam. Do watch!!!

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