Zubeen Garg: The Cultural Unifier Who Healed Assam's Divided Society

Sep 25, 2025 09:20 pm CST

This article examines how singer Zubeen Garg transcended Assam's complex history of territorial losses, demographic changes, and ethnic conflicts to become a cultural unifier. By rejecting divisions of caste, religion, and politics, Garg embodied the "Kanchenjunga spirit" - elevated, free, and unyielding - providing healing and unity to a fractured region in ways political institutions could not achieve.