Posts published by “Aloy Buragohain”

Aloy Buragohain is a graduate of IIT Madras and a native of Assam. Working across disciplines as diverse as science education, economics, history, and pop culture, he was previously Research Fellow in a European Union project in Germany and Research Scholar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. Recently, he won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Policy Hackathon.

We Need an Intimate Enemy Who Brings Us Together

We Need an Intimate Enemy Who Brings Us Together

By Aloy Buragohain on January 30, 2022

Repeated conflicts with Catholic France, culminating in Napoleon, forced or forged together a British Protestant social-political union, subsuming sub-national identities like the Scottish, the Welsh and the English. Indian history is also ridden with such inconvenient conflicts, which Indians must transcend.