By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 30) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2015) Editorial Mr. Modi: Travel in India, visit Mawlynnong Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now on a major and important swing through Central Asia and Russia, visit the north-east in the near future, I recommend that he spend as little time as…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 29) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter January – March 2015) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Make a new ‘Assam type house’ our Icon for safety On two successive days, the Government of India showered its benevolence on the North-eastern states. On the first day, it declared that 15,000 crore rupees,…
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 –…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 24) C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter October – December 2013) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Water, water … and dams without data A simple question: if you are suddenly told that the father or uncle you have known all your life is one foot taller than he appears to be, how would…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 23) C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter July – September 2013) Editorial By the Brahmaputra In new and old states, where will the poor live ?In the fresh crisis that is engulfing Assam and other parts of North-east and Eastern India following the Telengana announcement, much angry rhetoric is being spewed. There…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol 22) (For the quarter April – June 2013) Editorial The Outsider Syndrome: ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ To say that the news from Meghalaya’s Garo Hills is disturbing is to make an understatement. It reminds one of the bad, dark days in Assam, Manipur, Jammu and Kashmir, in the Punjab: ordinary workers lined…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 21) (For the quarter January – March 2013) Editorial A Messy Democracy: Burma’s challenges The unraveling of ethnic strife in neighbouring Myuanmar or Burma as some of us would prefer to call it but especially the sharp escalation of anti-Muslim violence, first, against the Rohingyas or Muslims of the Arakan…
(For the quarter October – December 2012) Editorial By the Brahmaputra : The North-east must fashion the Burma Road At a recent discussion on Myanmar, where several senior Burmese civil society figures participated, a number of ‘real issues’ came up. One was the puzzlement of those from that country about the so-called ‘Look East Policy’…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 18) C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter April – June 2012) Editorial By the Brahmaputra A question of trust, equality – force Centre to share facts about water Perhaps ‘In the Brahmaputra” or ‘On the Brahmaputra’ may be the more appropriate title for this week’s column and perhaps for the next…
