Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth magazine invites photographers and photo-journalists to apply for a fellowship and a contest on the subject of 'climate change and vulnerable communities'. The fellowship is aimed at recording stories of people and places buffeted by changing climate and its accompanying extremes of weather; and of…
Academics, journalists and activists on Sunday (August 9, 2015) urged the people of several states come under India’s North East region for a better a prolong mechanism to work together to address various basic and long lasting issues and demands of people in the region. They were part of an interaction and a panel discussion…
The central government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah on Monday (August 3, 2015) signed a historic accord. The South Asia Monitor spoke to noted expert Prof. Sanjoy Hazarika and asked for his first thoughts about the Naga peace accord. http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=in&nid=12889
Every effort at resolving the Naga imbroglio has been embroiled in a challenging quagmire of unending and conflicting demands. While most commentaries on the recent consensual framework for a long-term agreement between the Centre and the NSCN(I-M) have focused on the here and now and sought to define the long road to peace, I will…
'To expect that these past decades of grief, inter-group killings, anxiety and fear will be brushed aside because of the Naga peace accord is being unrealistic. Memories are built on old wounds and they heal slowly. So, it is important to be cautiously optimistic,' says Sanjoy Hazarika. First of all, let us hail the peacemakers…
This is an overall tapestry of vivid colour and powerful imagery, with vignettes and insights into geopolitics, and also the personal lives of those who shaped these major events. It has all the ingredients for a major feature film: Love and hate, suspense and suspicion, great powers and small nations, a Shangri-la, beautiful foreign and…
C-NES' Brahmaputra Community Radio Station is now a member of the CRA (Community Radio Association). CRA was formed in 2011 in Delhi as an association, wherein people working on the ground, can represent their communities and bring the voices of the voiceless to the fore. It has been organizing events/workshops and has been sharing the…
Shahnaz Anklesaria Aiyar, who passed away in Washington DC yesterday, was a close friend and a wonderful human being who touched everyone she met with her joyfulness and kindness She was one of those rare people in the world: a good human being. I had known her for nearly 40 years and respected her unstinting fight against cancer,…
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,…
Kaliyani, the boat donated by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) to C-NES as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is ready for service. The inaugural function of the launch of Kaliyani for providing health services to the marginalized river island population of Kamrup district as part of C-NES’ Boat Clinic programme under NHM was held…