Makepeace Sitlhou

Makepeace Sitlhou is an independent journalist and researcher with a special interest in the Indian Northeast, reporting on politics, gender, governance, conflict, society, culture and development.

How Thailand and India continue to fail Myanmar refugees

Refugees from the war in Myanmar live in fear of harassment, imprisonment and deportation in the border areas of Northeast India and Thailand

By Makepeace Sitlhou

/ 16 Aug 2024

How Thailand and India continue to fail Myanmar refugees

Under Modi, the Northeast is more united with India, but more divided within

India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater division within the region, as the Manipur crisis shows

By Makepeace Sitlhou

/ 17 Apr 2024

Under Modi, the Northeast is more united with India, but more divided within

An AFSPA free Northeast?

On the BJP government’s politics of optics in India’s Northeast.

By Makepeace Sitlhou

/ 6 May 2022

The state of suspension

The closure of Amnesty India is a rude reminder of the growing antipathy towards political freedoms and dissenting voices in the country.

By Makepeace Sitlhou

/ 30 Oct 2020