By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 44) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2018) C-NES- Boll Project: The Assamese Sikhs: Negotiating Transitions Sanjoy Hazarika giving his remarks at the eventNiyati Singh presenting the reportManjit Singh speaks at the panelA section of the audience Heinrich Böll Stiftung in collaboration with C-NES and Majha House, a Punjab…
C-NES hosted a 34 member team of the State Constitution Drafting Body Myanmar on a study tour to North East India. The event on "Building Partnerships,Learning from each other; North East India and Myanmar.Hectic sessions was held on 9th and 10th of December 2018- learning and sharing before they proceeded to Manipur. Mizoram was the…
Guwahati -- The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) organized a panel discussion on ‘Assamese Sikhs in Transition’ a research project which has been prepared in collaboration with Majha House and supported by Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS). The Panel which was held on 27th November 2018 at the Kanaklal Baruah auditorium of…
Johannes van de Ven, Managing Director, Good Energies Foundation, Switzerland along with Harish Hunda, MD of SELCO and Huda Jaffer ( also from SELCO) made a recent visit to Jorhat districts Majuli island and took a trip onboard the Jorhat Boat Clinic "Nahor" as it sailed onwards for a health trip to Bhekeli Island. It…
There have been very few events in my life which have not only been life-changing but also provided a great learning opportunity. A recent trip that I undertook to Assam definitely qualifies as one of those. The backdrop to this experience relates to learning more about ‘healthcare’ coupled with my need to venture out on…
उभरता पूर्वोत्तर/लहरों पर तैरता अस्पताल असम के कुल भूखंड में से करीब 6 फीसद हिस्सा नदी द्वीप क्षेत्र है। जहां असम की कुल जनसंख्या में से करीब 10 फीसद आबादी रहती है। यानी करीब 30 लाख लोग इन द्वीप गांवों में रहते हैं। असम में 13 जिले नदियों के किनारे स्थित हैं। ब्रह्मपुत्र नदी अपने…
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By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 41) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter January – March 2018) Women’s Day at Radio Brahmaputra On the occasion of Women’s Day, a group of women from Maijan Nahor Line gathered at the Radio Brahmaputra studio on 8th March 2018 to listen to a Women’s Day special program and share their…
In 1994, Sanjoy Hazarika’s first book on Northeast, Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India’s Northeast, was hailed as a path-breaking narrative of the region. It explored various aspects, including immigration issues before and after Independence. In his latest book, Strangers no More that comes two decades after his first one…
A steady plough through the statistics in Budget 2018 turned up little for the northeast, till now such a darling of the NDA government. What was disappointing for many was GoI’s failure to revive the Northeastern India Industrial Policy. This could have structured in a clear, revised and better framework than the old one that…