'Rhetoric of fear and suspicion should be avoided'

March 18, 2016 17:47

Sanjoy Hazarika, author of Strangers of the Mist, Rites of Passage and Writing on the Wall, has been an astute observer of the Northeast in general and Assam in particular for over two decades.

Currently Director of Jamia Millia Islamia's Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, the journalist-turned-academic fields questions from Abdus Salam as campaigning for the two-phase Assembly elections in Assam gradually shifts into top gear. Excerpts from the interview.

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