The Northeast is poised for a leap forward, as is the rest of the country. This may sound paradoxical at a time when there are so many prophets of gloom and doom. As one who has been reporting on India since the birth of the new Republic, I have heard such apocalyptic forecasts time and…
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and the Heinrich Böll Foundation have pleasure in inviting you to a series of events to be held in a number of cities in India through September to October 2011. The events showcase the Research Report, Film and a Photo Exhibition conducted by C-nes and supported…
A visit was made to Kadamtola Kopahtoli char, Mondia Block on 15 July 2011 with the Barpeta Boat Clinic Unit II. The team reached the Manikpur ghat at around 930 hours. At Manikpur ghat the road was muddy and slippery. We had to cross a small stream near the ghat to reach our boat with…
Twenty-two year old Manjula reached the radio station before daybreak one day in August last year and started broadcasting Tsunami alerts at 5:00 a.m. Early morning listeners were caught unaware as they are used to the community radio station, Kalanjiam Vaanoli, beginning its broadcast only at eight. By mid-morning, Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and the surrounding…
A two member team comprising of Ms D. Daniel from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, US and Mr Santosh, UNICEF Consultant, visited the Barpeta Unit II Boat Clinic in lower Assam on July 14, 2011. The team joined the health team on the Boat Clinic during their trip to conduct a health camp at Rowmari…
On July 7, 2011, the Registrar-General of India (who is also the Census Commissioner) – and which office, for some unfathomable reason, best known perhaps to some babu in the GOI, remains located in the Ministry of Home Affairs, instead of the Ministry of Family Welfare – released the figures for MMR, IMR and TFR…
C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter April – June 2011) Editorial Delhi needs to follow Gogoi’s lead The Assam Chief Minister, cruising on his massive mandate in the recent Assembly elections, is wasting no time in getting down to business. In a flurry of activity, Tarun Gogoi has, these past days, instructed members of his Cabinet…
With the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) the Centre’s latest estimates are a mixed bag for Assam . MMR is the rate of women who die in child birth as a proportion of the population. Against a national average of 212, the MMR in Assam is 390, the highest in the country, according to the…
Dr. Manmohan Singh’s declaration that a quarter of Bangladesh’s population were anti-India and radicalized by Islam so embarrassed the Centre which had put it blithely on its website on the basis, one surmises, of “transparency” and then swiftly withdrew the statement (without anyone explaining officially why). “… we must reckon that at least 25 percent…
The role of media in influencing readers and viewers has been rarely under as much stress as these days following the closure of The News of the World, Britain largest selling newspaper, after its editors and reporters were involved in a phone and email hacking scam where they bribed police, misused a murdered girl's cell…