C-NES Newsletter (For the period October– December 2021) Workshop on Health and Nutrition The State Alliance on Food, Health and Nutrition, of which C-NES is a part, was formed soon after the onset of the pandemic in May 2020 with the involvement of Oxfam. The Alliance has been pushing to set up nutritional kitchen gardens…
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…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 38) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2017) Boat Clinics replicated in Malkangiri The boat clinic at Malkangiri, Odisha, launched on 2nd May 2017with its mission of providing service to tribal populations in (Maoist ) disturbed areas was inspired by the success of C-NES' Boat Story. It may be…
C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2016) Editorial A poorer world: Trump comes and two friends go As the year winds down, just as we are getting used to the idea of Donald Trump becoming the helmsman of the most powerful nation on earth, comes a startling joint statement by three top Harvard…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 31) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2015) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Swach Bharat – Go Beyond Toilets, Clean Up Industry As the Government of India and the Prime Minister rightfully declare that cleaning up India – or Swach Bharat – is ritical for making it a…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 30) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2015) Editorial Mr. Modi: Travel in India, visit Mawlynnong Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now on a major and important swing through Central Asia and Russia, visit the north-east in the near future, I recommend that he spend as little time as…
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,…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 28) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2014) Editorial By the Brahmaputra BG Verghese: friend of the NE, thought leader and good human being My first encounter with BG Verghese took place on a summer day in 1976 in Delhi. He had been sacked from the editorship of The…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 27) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2014) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Smart cities, unsmart living: lessons unlearned The images of the devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir that leaped at us from television screens and the front pages of newspapers – especially the aerial views –…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 26) C-NES Newsletter (For the quarter April – June 2014) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Of Car Parks and Governance While looking at some old expense vouchers, part of an effort to refurbish the home in Shillong, I came across the tiny stub of a car park ticket. The yellow stub…