The jeep moved off the highway before Kohima and made its way up a narrow but smoothly metalled road, zig zagging as we climbed. The Nagaland capital of Kohima was just a few kilometers away, the steamy plains of Dimapur and Assam were far behind; the air was clear, the sky was blue and it…
Bhutan's Prime Minister Jigme Thinleyin conversation with Sanjoy Hazarika at his office in Thimpu, capitalof Bhutan, on May 19, 2010.Thimpu, Bhutan – Bhutan’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, Jigme Yoser Thinley, says that while the fairy-tale Himalayan Kingdom’s tryst with democracy will take time to mature, it would not have been possible to launch the…
To ease the heat of the ongoing confrontation between the Manipur Government and Th. Muivah, the general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, the Centre is planning to summon a meeting of the peace talks between the NSCN and New Delhi’s representatives in the national capital. This would enable Mr. Muivah to leave…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES and renowned author, was invited to the first literary festival held in Bhutan from May 17-21, 2010 at the Himalayan kingdom's capital of Thimpu. Hazarika, who has visited Bhutan a number of times over the past two decades, was invited to read from his books on the North-east and share…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
(first of a series on Bhutan’s fledging democracy) Thimpu, Bhutan -- “From a party point of view,” said Jigme Yoezer Thinley, smiling in his spacious wooden floored and paneled office in Thimpu, “I am unhappy about media, its wrong reporting and even non-reporting – but as a person committed to democracy ... we have to…
Hanna Ingber Win, a New York based reporter, has been travelling on the islands of the Brahmaputra with C-NES' boat clinics over the past days and has produced some of the most sparkling and dramatic accounts of the work we do. In a series of blogs for the Pulitzer Centre, which is funding her travel and writing about family…
“We want a safe stable society. The work we do is therefore community driven. Our work in all sectors is intertwined with impacts on the policy level.” These were the opening remarks of Managing Trustee (MT) Sanjoy Hazarika at the Second Annual Review Meeting of the Centre for NE Studies and Policy Research (C-NES). Thirty…
In October 2009, the Centre declared the endangered Gangetic river dolphin as the national aquatic animal. This dolphin is found in the Brahmaputra, Ganga, Meghna and Karnaphuli river systems of South Asia. The dolphin is at the apex of the aquatic food chain and is an indicator of the health of the rivers it inhabits.A…