Dolly Kikon

Dolly Kikon is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on the political economy of extractive resources, militarisation, migration, development initiatives, gender relations, food cultures and human rights in India.

Valley versus hill

The crisis in Manipur is based in the Imphal government's inability to regard all the state's population as its own, and its indifference towards Naga concerns.

By Dolly Kikon

/ 1 Jul 2010

Big Brother statism

The notion of Southasia is not a cartographic grid of a specific geographic region, but an India-centric approach that dominates the region as a whole. For a resident of Northeast

By Dolly Kikon

/ 1 Aug 2008

Divergent memories in Manipur

Anger is building in the Naga hills of Manipur regarding the Meitei bias in the state’s school curricula and textbooks.

By Dolly Kikon

/ 14 Sep 2006

Muivah’s road to peace

In an interview broadcast on the BBC on 29 April 2005, Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), made a departure when he proposed a

By Dolly Kikon

/ 15 Jul 2005