क्यों सुलगता है बोडोलैंड असम के बोडो क्षेत्रीय परिषद इलाके में हाल ही हुई हत्याओं और भय के माहौल की खबरें अखबारों के मुखपृष्ठ और टेलीविजन की हेडलाइंस से उसी तेजी से गायब हुईं, जिस तीव्रता से उन्होंने देश का ध्यान खींचा था। चुनावी गहमागहमी में ऐसा होना अस्वाभाविक नहीं है। मगर लोग इससे परेशान…
Indian political pundits and election officials are probably extremely dismayed with the violence in Assam state , in the country's northeast, which has blotted efforts for a peaceful national election. More than 40 persons have died in the attacks , almost all of them being Bengali-origin Muslims, in a sudden, ugly burst of killings in one of…
As one of the most vituperative election campaigns in this country winds down, we cannot but wonder if India and its people deserve any or all of these prime candidates hurling angry words and ugly images at each other. But then the question is if whether we really have much of a choice: probably not…
Sangeeta Baruah from C-NES regional office, Guwahati won the Third Prize in the All Assam Poetry Writing Competition held at Jorhat by the Enajori Sahitya Sanskriti Gusthi on 23th March, 2014. She has been regularly contributing her poems in various magazines and dailies across Assam.
As the election tempo increases in some areas and remains low in other parts of the country, India is lurching into a period of reckoning for its immediate and long-term future, a future where a new, younger generation of voters have the say in who will form the next government and perhaps be the country’s…
The problem of water security in South Asia is rooted more in spatial and temporal variation of precipitation and flows, rather than absolute scarcity. If the skewed water availability in nature and the pattern of water requirement round the year can be brought closer to each other , water security for South Asia may not…
With a large and growing population, high poverty rates, and a need to ensure food security, water is highly politicized. The diverse opinions and resulting disputes between South Asian countries regarding shared waters has resulted in few strategies for basin level cooperation in the face of changing requirements and variable water quantities. In addition to…
L. Khino, 27, vividly remembers Christmas Eve at the Indian capital’s famed Connaught Place shopping hub four years ago: the blinking lights, the buzzing crowd, the winter chill – and the salty taste of her tears. Khino had just arrived in New Delhi from her home in India’s northeastern state of Manipur. “I was so…
The boat that shuffles slowly over the Brahmaputra, brings an unusual crew: doctors and nurses, midwives and pharmacists, laboratory technicians, and social workers. You are on your way to one of the 2,500 islands that lie to the north east of India in the state of Assam.The approximately three million inhabitants of these islands have no…
