Soon after last month’s seizure and subsequent arrest of Arabindo Rajkhowa, chairman of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom, his colleague and head of the remnants of the organization’s armed wing reaffirmed, along with Rajkhowa, that Ulfa would only talk about sovereignty of Assam with the Central Government and that Ulfa could change its…
Media messes up the message by Sanjoy Hazarika IT is more than a month since the chairman of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was arrested by Bangladeshi security officials and handed over to Indian forces on the Bangladesh-Meghalaya border, after he and his cohorts were intercepted as they fled to Chittagong and planned…
During a recent Pulse Polio Immunization campaign, special camps were organized by the Dibrugarh Boat Clinic (10 - 13 January 2010).The Deputy Commissioner of the District, Mr. GD Tripathy visited Sarikholia sapori and launched the program. He was accompanied by Dr. P C Hazarika, Joint Director of Health Services, Dr. Bhobojyoti Borah, Surveillance Medical Officer,…
Sanjoy Hazarika was a Lecturer on the unique Semester at Sea programme, which is run on the passenger ship MV Explorer, which is a traveling US University campus. Mr. Hazarika gave two major keynote addresses on A Writer’s Perceptive of India, mapping the historical growth and economic development of the country in lectures which were…
While facts surrounding the capture of United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa are shrouded in mystery and might not be known for some time, the situation remains murky. This has not been helped by varying government statements: one that he was arrested and another that he had surrendered. This was countered by…
For over sixty years, in few areas, has the idea of India been more strongly challenged as in the tiny state of Nagaland, located well east of Kolkata (Calcutta). It was here that the first shots for an independent breakaway nation were fired within a decade of India securing independence from Britain in 1947. The…
Now you see it, now you don’t…….the game continued through out the two hour ride between my brother and me. The year was 1979- we were onboard a ferry plying from Kamalabari in Majuli to Nimati Ghat - on either side of the Brahmaputra while on a visit to Jorhat from Itanagar- the newly formed…
Even as delayed monsoons and subsequent floods hit Assam, over 2 lakh flood vulnerable people living in the saporis or river islands of the Brahmaputra have been covered with sustained health care for the first time in their lives by the “Boat Clinics” of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES)- National…