On A rainy September day in 2012, 21-year-old Chimpi Bora faced the prospect of going into labour at home. The floods had cut all communication to her flood-ravaged home in Jorhat district’s (upper Assam) Bhimpara island on the Brahmaputra. Her husband called an ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist), local community workers, who connected with the…
“Good to listen to what you are doing- your challenges, how you overcome them, what you want to do. We have to look at ourselves and how we look at C-NES the next 15 years.” These were the opening remarks of Sanjoy Hazarika,Managing Trustee C-NES in his welcome address at the three day C-NES Annual…
In 1985, I had just come back to Delhi after a stint at the New York Times main office. One of the first dispatches I reported was India’s announcement that it would build a fence to stop illegal migration from Bangladesh. The Assam agreement on illegal migration and the state’s development had been signed earlier…
“Hope Floats: Boat Clinic of the Brahmaputra”, the book on the innovative Boat Clinics run by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research(C-NES) was released at the organization’s Annual Review meet at Gangtok on 21st March 2016 by the Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim, PD Rai in the presence of Prof Sanjoy Hazarika,…
Every river has a story.This one, about the only male river in the country, majestic and powerful, the Brahmaputra has a lot to share. Directed by multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director Jahnu Barua and scripted and produced by Prof Sanjoy Hazarika - writer, journalist, columnist, Managing Trustee of C-NES and Director at Centre…
New Delhi --The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Millia Islamia begins a two day international conference on February 22-23 "When the Mountains move and the waters rise" with a focus on disaster management especially health, trauma and housing. It will address the need to include community concerns and priorities as well as robust…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 32) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2015) Editorial / By the Brahmaputra The Man on the Highway The man lay crumpled on the highway, wearing a brown jacket and dark trousers. A checked handkerchief was next to his knee and he looked as if he was sleeping. Was he…
The South Asian Games, a sporting event of international importance, was inaugurated on Friday in Guwahati. No less a personality than the Prime Minister was present at what can be called a spectacular opening ceremony. The dances, songs and brass bands were exceptionally brilliant. The drums ensemble from the eight northeastern states was mesmerising. And…
The man lay crumpled on the highway, wearing a brown jacket and dark trousers. A checked handkerchief was next to his knee and he looked as if he was sleeping. Was he drunk? I wondered. in my mind, that moment remains frozen in time. We had just passed Amoni on the national highway between Nogaon…
Sharing here a moving video about midwifery in Somalia. This should be relevant for all of us and the work we do, especially with such high MMR levels in Assam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARpvEVuwqgE