“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…
The Brahmaputra Community Radio Station(BCRS) today won the Manthan Award South Asia and Asia Pacific 2014 under the Community Broadcasting category, according to an announcement by The Grand Jury. BCRS competed with 400 nominations (all nominations under different categories) for the award this year and the announcement was made in Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. According…
Message from NRL: On behalf of Ambika , myself and my company I thank you for the effort you put in to showcase the wonderful job being done by your team and you to reach medicine, care and solace to the unheard and unseen people, living on the numerous islands created by the whim and…
A 5 member team from Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) visited C-NES' Brahmaputra Community Radio Station(BCRS) located along the mighty Brahmaputra at Maijan ghat, Dibrugarh on 28, 29th October 2014. The station, the first ever of its kind in this part of the country to broadcast in 5 different languages/dialects- Assamese, Bhojpuri,Shadri(tea tribe dialect),Bodo and…
WHEN the North-East of India comes up for discussion in a public forum or figures in media coverage, the stock phrases used in conversations or dialogue usually give the impression that the entire region is engulfed in strife and confrontation. I am willing to bet that a majority of stories would be inspired by phrases…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 27) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2014) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Smart cities, unsmart living: lessons unlearned The images of the devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir that leaped at us from television screens and the front pages of newspapers – especially the aerial views –…
A visitor to Aizawl, state capital of Mizoram, will drive through hills wrapped in green and swathed in mist. But as she nears the capital, the landscape changes. Multistoreyed buildings jostle for space, clawing towards the sky. There are no fields or parks to play in. And, for a hill town, there are very few…