“The governments’ failure to deliver more effectively on human development indicates they need to look for new models and replicate them, taking advantage of NGO initiatives and their ability to provide services as effectively as the Brahmaputra boats do” Sir Mark Tully. Follow the link for more http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/to-change-india-we-need-a-state-ngo-collaboration/story-7qnMxnsszPVhP5IEnFpsCL.html
Sujay Gupta, editor of the Heraldo in Goa, wrote this entertaining piece based on a lunch at Gunpowder in Goa: http://www.heraldgoa.in/…/THE-YOUNG-MAN-AND-THE-RIVER-–-HAZ…’S-TALES-TOLD-AT-ASSAGAO/111649.html
THE resignation of the Nagaland Chief Minister DR Zeliang is a fallout of the anti-reservation violence in the state. The government, in the wake of rioting, arson and large-scale intimidation of women candidates by male-dominated "civil society groups" and traditional institutions, had walked away from upholding its position as a government of all the people…
Fresh doctors from Barcelona Clara Gené Skrabec and Mariona Condom have come to volunteer with the Boat Clinics for 2 weeks. They visited the Boat Clinic Units of Kamrup, Morigaon ,Jorhat and Dibrugarh. Follow these Spanish doctors on their amazing journey across Assam from one Boat Clinic to the other https://freshdoctorsinindia.wordpress.com/
Today ( Feb 20th) Prof Sanjoy Hazarika is moderating a discussion -- Contesting Tradition (s): Nagaland, Rights, Women' at the IIC basement annexe at 6:30 pm. The panelists are Monalisa Changkija, Editor, Nagaland Page, Patricia Mukhim, Editor, Shillong Times, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, journalist and head Reachout Foundation, James Pochury of Action Aid and Rosemary Dzuvichu, Naga…
Six-year-old Altaf and his companions were sitting adjacent to the river bank since morning, with their eyes locked on the distance. With just a glimpse of a vessel, they stand up and begin bouncing and yelling in bliss. On the vessel, one of the crew members approaches the bow and checks the water level with…
Journalist Papri Sri Raman, got a UNHCR -C-NES media fellowship to conduct a study on Sri Lankan refugees in 2008. She had also visited the Jorhat Boat Clinic some time later. Her new book, the Song of India, is a historical fiction, set in the time frame of World War II and the great Hump…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 33) C-NES Newsletter(For the Quarter January – March 2016)Editorial By the Brahmaputra And now for Jivika, Swasthya, XikhyaAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched, Sarbananda Sonowal took the oath of office as Chief Minister of Assam with his cabinet colleagues before an enthusiastic crowd which braved sweltering temperatures to witness the new…
The boat hired during May 2015 Bullock cart used for conducting health camps at Kartik sapori Boats are the most important component of C-NES’ Boat Clinic health outreach programme, acclaimed nationally and internationally for its innovation and outreach. These boats however need at least one major annual set of repairs so that the safety factor…