Year in Review: What I Wrote (Typed) in 2023
Here are all my pieces from the past year.
In 2023, I wrote far less than I would have liked (I blame the fonts and the weather).
This includes my textual silence (I did publish some podcasts) over Barbed Wires, something that I had earlier pledged to reverse. So, I will do what any rational person would do – pledge again.
2024 shall be the year of the great reversal.
Meanwhile, here are the articles that I did manage to write in 2023:
16 Jan/The Wire: Why the Myanmar Junta Bombed the Chin National Front Headquarters and Why Delhi Should Care
19 Feb/Scroll: What a Guwahati restaurant’s menu says about majoritarian discrimination in Assam
23 Feb/The Wire (re-published from Barbed Wires): Nellie Massacre: 40 Years Later, a Cautionary Tale for Today's India
27 Jan/The Wire (re-published from Barbed Wires): Modi and El-Sisi’s Leadership Styles Mirror Each Other in More Ways Than One
20 March/The Diplomat (interviewed by Sudha Ramachandran): Angshuman Choudhury on India’s Robust Engagement of Myanmar’s Junta
31 March/The Caravan: Blurred Lines: Mizoram’s uncertain efforts to provide sanctuary to Chin refugees
1 May/Centre for Policy Research: “Constructive coalition or secret clique?” Decoding the India-hosted Track 1.5 dialogue on Myanmar
27 June/Frontline: Targeting of Kukis the main reason behind Manipur violence
19 Aug/Scroll: Has the state really withered away in Manipur?
24 Aug/Frontline: Centre blaming Myanmar migrants for Manipur violence is dangerous
28 Sep/The Wire: India Should Not Try to Emulate the West and its Allies on Targeted Assassinations
12 Oct/The Wire: Unpacking the Hindutva Embrace of Israel
17 Oct/The Irrawaddy: India Making a Mistake by Backing Myanmar’s Junta-Led ‘Peace Process’
29 Oct/Scroll: Moral timidity: The contradictions in India’s refusal to join the UN’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza
20 Nov/Hindustan Times: Myanmar's armed rebellion against the junta over the years
21 Nov/The Diplomat: Operation 1027 is Changing Myanmar’s Frontier Geographies. Is India Ready?
28 Nov/The Diplomat: Western Powers and India Spar Over New Delhi’s Alleged Assassinations Abroad
2 Dec/Hindustan Times: Unpacking Mizoram’s stance towards Myanmar’s Chin refugees
15 Dec/Hindustan Times: Who is the Manipur group that signed a historic truce with the Union government?
24 Dec/Scroll (co-authored with Suraj Gogoi): Gauhati High Court echoes Assamese ethnic nationalist discourse in order on foreigners tribunal
Besides these, I wrote two full-length podcasts, one on a Cold War mystery (20 episodes) and the other on cyber warfare (25 episodes). The first one, titled The Nanda Devi Mystery, was released on Audible in July.
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Wish you all a very joyous, meaningful, and healthy 2024!