It haunts me today, even more than when it happened, two and a half years ago; an upper-caste, Assamese female anthropologist, accused me of not knowing the ‘real’ ‘Assamese’ woman, whose ‘real’ attire, according to her was the Mekhela-Chador. This occurred at a conference focusing on ‘Northeast’ India. It was, of course, a discomforting proposition...
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