Intern’s Report: Through American Eyes: The C-NES Boat Clinics By: Arunava Sarma (May/June 2012) Introduction For a public health and molecular biology student, the prospect of touring areas of rural India via boats on the crisscrossing channels of the Brahmaputra and providing healthcareto underserved populations is very attractive. For such a student with ancestral Assamese…
Sanjoy Hazarika is extensively quoted: In the world's largest democracy, recent fears of pogroms and ethnic violence have highlighted just how fractious and febrile India's social makeup is. By Ishaan Tharoor | @ishaantharoor | August 22, 2012 | Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/08/22/indias-northeast-how-a-troubled-region-may-be-a-global-flashpoint/#ixzz24kLBO96
The best of times has turned into the worst of times for the North-East. The cheers of national pride for Olympian boxer Mary Kom have been drowned out by ugly ethnic threats. It's time to go beyond quick-fix solutions. It's taken barely a week for Manipuri boxer Mary Kom and the blaze of glory that…
As much of India plunges repeatedly into darkness at noon, the conflict and tragedy in Assam is fading rapidly. The governments, at the Centre and the state, will breathe a sigh of relief at this reduction of the public gaze, but no one should for a moment be fooled into thinking that this seeming “easing”…
The madness that has gripped parts of India, leading to the exodus of tens of thousands of people from the North-east — not just from Assam but from across the region — is not only an expression of fear and doubt, but also a stark reflection of the absolute and resolute ignorance that holds much…
Can we sing ‘O mour apuna dekh’ again with joy, freedom and conviction, celebrating our homeland? Is it truly the most wonderful place on earth, unparalleled in beauty, this land of our birth, our ‘mother’? Indeed, perhaps it still is – but despoiled by the depredation of humans, their greed, their hunger for power and…
The northeast used to pride itself on its gender equality. But the gory sexual violence against a teenager in Assam shows the region is no different from the rest of India The sordid sexual violence by a group of thugs against a young woman in Guwahati has stunned people not just in India but across…
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…
Amid pouring monsoon rain, men, women and children run alongside the torrential Brahmaputra, waving at people in white coats on a boat. This is their boat of hope - a floating clinic, equipped with basic medical facilities and manned by doctors and paramedics taking healthcare to people in far-flung island villages that are deprived of…