The Government of Assam and National Health Mission (NHM) nominated the Boat Clinics to be exhibited in the Global Exhibition on Services from 23-25 April 2015 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, arranged jointly by Government of India, Confederation of India Industries (CII) & Services Export Promotion Council (SEPC). It was an opportunity for C-NES to…
CNES Managing Trustee Sanjoy Hazarika talks about starting medical service boats across the Brahmaputra during TEDxFORESchool held at FORE School of Management, New Delhi. http://dubeat.com/events/tedxforeschool-2015-past-present-future/
International Conference on Re-imagining India's North East: Narratives, Networks and Negotiations organised by Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, JMI, New Delhi.
Rajya Sabha TV will broadcast special coverage of the International Conference on Reimagining Indias North East: Narratives, Networks and Negotiations held at Jamia Milia Islamia New Delhi 4-6, February 2015. It will be broadcast from 13th February, 2015 at 12.30 pm onwards everyday and later all the programmes will be available on RSTV website and…
An International Conference on '‘Reimagining India’s North East: Narratives, Networks and Negotiations" is scheduled on February 4-6 at Jamia Millia Islamia university, New Delhi. Prominent scholars namely Prof.Willem van Schendel of the University of Amsterdam, Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed of the University of Dhaka, Dr. Melanie Vandenhelksen of the University of Vienna, Dr Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh and…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 28) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2014) Editorial By the Brahmaputra BG Verghese: friend of the NE, thought leader and good human being My first encounter with BG Verghese took place on a summer day in 1976 in Delhi. He had been sacked from the editorship of The…
“Journalism for him is zestful,” wrote the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in its citation for the 1975 award to B G Verghese. “Yet his sense of public duty is strong.” One of the most widely respected editors and an inspirational figure to several generations of journalists, Boobli George Verghese died at his Gurgaon house Tuesday.…
Be it rains, dry winters or humid summers, a band of people in white coats on a boat travel the mighty Brahmaputra River in Assam aboard the floating clinics. This exercise is part of an innovative health campaign by the Center for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) under Sanjoy Hazarika. On Monday, Hazarika…
The National Democratic Front of Boroland (Songbijit) does not seem to have any clear and tangible goal apart from that of spreading mayhem and terror The massacre of innocent men, women and children in Sonitpur and Kokrajar districts of Assam is a familiar, cynical, bloody cycle of violence that is never far away; it is…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-NES spoke at the IIT Gandhinagar's India ki Khoj, on December 21, at a programme organised by Dr. Rita Kothari, a specialist on the Sindhi border people, their culture, social systems and aspirations and has written extensively about them. Hazarika spoke on the northeast and screened excerpts from two films - Measure of Impunity…