C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter October – December 2011) Editorial China backs off the Brahmaputra The Bard can rest peacefully – China backs off the Brahmaputra Bhupen da can rest in peace – at least as far as his beloved Brahmaputra and Lohit are concerned. That is, if we are to believe the Chinese. In quick…
Sanjoy Hazarika has been invited to speak at the inauguration of an international conference on the North-east followed by the screening of his film, ‘A Measure of Impunity,’ on 15th December 2011 at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He will be participating in the workshop titled Performing Identity: Ethnicity and Ethnonationalism in the South-east Asian…
State Bank of India on Monday extended its corporate social responsibility arm to C-NES by donating a multi utility vehicle (Mahindra Bolero). The vehicle donated to the organization will enable the programme management team(PMU) of C-NES, based out of Guwahati for using it for better monitoring and mobility to the health camps to supervise the…
A new radio station -- Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS), on the banks of the Brahmaputra – is being set up by C-NES in collaboration with UNICEF, Assam at Maijan ghat, Dibrugarh as part of an effort to democratized mass media, with reporters and writers from communities of the area. Community radio across the world…
Veteran journalist and former NE Correspondent of The Hindu, MS Prabhakara's book on the region, 'Looking into the Future', is being released in Bangalore on November 23 at the British Council Library, 11 am, on Kasturba Rd. Prabhakara is a legendary scribe, a true foot soldier of the craft of journalism unlike most of today's…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-NES, presented the work of the Boat Clinics in Assam at an international conference in Delhi on Sunday, Nov 20, 2011. He spoke on 'Waters of Hope: Health Innovations and Interventions on the Brahmaputra' at the conference, the final presentation of the final session 'The Way Forward' at the Conference:…
Inauguration of the Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) Studio at Maijan Borsaikia gaon, Dibrugarh on November 30, 2011 by the Deputy Commissioner, Dibrugarh, Dr KK Dwivedi, IAS. C-NES in collaboration with UNICEF, Assam has set up the station at Maijan, Dibrugarh, on the banks of the Brahmaputra. The radio station will benefit the communities of…
Just consider. Every time petrol prices are raised, oil companies end up losing more money. Simply because the price differential between petrol and diesel increases further, and people gravitate towards diesel vehicles. More the use of diesel, more the oil companies bleed. Worse, we all bleed because diesel vehicles add to toxic pollution in our…
In every household in Assam, a lamp has burned these past few days to honour the greatest figure that most people of this beautiful but blighted state, locked away in India's eastern borderland by distance, lack of growth and conflicts, have known in perhaps hundreds of years. Why just in Assam? Across India, South Asia…
The Bard of the Brahmaputra may be silent but the river flows on. It may be centuries before it finds another. But till then, it will flow and so will his music. Bhupen Hazarika’s ballads will sustain the river, which was his true muse. There is few of his great songs – and he wrote…