Managing Trustee Sanjoy Hazarika at the official dinner tonight hosted by External Affairs minister Salman Khurshid for Aung San Suu Kyi, at Hyderabad House, with Soe Myint, Myanmar editor and activist (to his right), On her left is Naveen Jindal, MP and industrialist; at right is Louise Fernandes, wife of Mr. Khurshid.
With the Brahmaputra in full spate and floods ravaging Assam again, Boat Clinic teams in all 15 districts units have been actively involved in providing medical help to the affected people and in relief and rescue operations in close coordination with district administration.While on a routine health trip, the Jorhat Boat Clinic team helped 21 [...]
The present situation in Assam, the largest state of the North-East, has been extremely disturbing with extensive violence, including killings and arson, between different groups as well as the flight of the displaced to relief camps. The repercussions have been seen and felt in different parts of the country. However, the complexity of the situation [...]
“It was raining incessantly. Every wave that shook the boat made us nervous. We could not sleep, infact we heard about a woman getting drowned a while ago. We put on our life jackets, but would that suffice? Our food and drinking water was nearly over. One night the boat was massively shaken by a powerful [...]
A two and a half day C-NES Annual Review Meeting was organized at the world heritage site of Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary in Assam, along the Brahmaputra in an equally picturesque Wild Grass Resort, Kaziranga from 29th February to 2nd March 2012. Over 70 C-NES staff comprising of Medical Officers, District Programme Officers from the [...]
A set of spell binding performances by members of the late Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s family, the gospel-choir group, the Nagaland Singing Ambassadors, and the father of Naga blues, Rewben Mashangva, and his 11-year-old son Saka, from Manipur, lifted spirits and brought the rich sounds and enchanting melodies of the North-east to Delhi this evening. Organized [...]
State Bank of India on Monday extended its corporate social responsibility arm to C-NES by donating a multi utility vehicle (Mahindra Bolero). The vehicle donated to the organization will enable the programme management team(PMU) of C-NES, based out of Guwahati for using it for better monitoring and mobility to the health camps to supervise the [...]
May 14, New Delhi premiere of film on the Boat Clinics of the Brahmaputra, May 24 in Guwahati.
Summer Internship Program 2008- UNICEF India Internship Report- Dr Sheila Longkumar,Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), Mumbai, 2010 Health Logistics : A Report by TISS Intern Sukhreet Bajwa in March 2012 Through American Eyes: The C-NES Boat Clinics
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 21) (For the quarter January – March 2013) Editorial A Messy Democracy: Burma’s challenges The unraveling of ethnic strife in neighbouring Myuanmar or Burma as some of us would prefer to call it but especially the sharp escalation of anti-Muslim violence, first, against the Rohingyas or Muslims of the Arakan [...]
The unraveling of ethnic strife in neighbouring Myuanmar or Burma as some of us would prefer to call it but especially the sharp escalation of anti-Muslim violence, first, against the Rohingyas or Muslims of the Arakan and then against Muslims elsewhere in the country, represents one of the key challenges that face its rulers and [...]
If India wants its northeast to benefit from the much publicised Look East Policy, it must bring top leaders of south east Asia to that region and encourage dialogue and discussion there, says Surin Pitsuwan, till recently the secretary–general of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). “India can call a meeting of the [...]
The 28th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) International Symposium, organized by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), Tufts University, Boston officially commenced with a workshop led by experts in global health and security on 21 st February 2012. EPIIC is a year long, interdisciplinary colloquium designed to [...]
Mr. Chidambaram has sought to blame the Army for the failure to repeal the draconian Act but the government is equally guilty as it has abdicated responsibility in the matter At an institute that is virtually owned, funded and run by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did the unthinkable the [...]
The Boat Clinic units at Sonitpur and Barpeta, under women District Programme Officers Moushumi Duwarah and Sapna Das respectively won laurels at the Republic Day celebrations. The Unit at Sonitpur district was felicitated by the State Minister Planning & Development Mr Tanka Rai Bahadur in presence of the Deputy Commissioner Mr Tapan Sarma and SP [...]
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES and director of CNESPR at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, will be helping launch a two-day NE Festival of Culture at the Habitat Centre in New Delhi tomorrow (Friday) and chair a session on Mizoram with a range of scholars the following day. Tomorrow’s event begins at 7 pm and [...]
(For the quarter October – December 2012) Editorial By the Brahmaputra : The North-east must fashion the Burma Road At a recent discussion on Myanmar, where several senior Burmese civil society figures participated, a number of ‘real issues’ came up. One was the puzzlement of those from that country about the so-called ‘Look East Policy’ [...]
Even as the trend of documentary making in the Northeast is on the rise, the focal point still remains the myriad disturbing issues occurring in the region. Manoj Barpujari delves into some of these films critically assessing them “The function of the documentary is to clarify choices, interpret history and promote human understanding. They [documentary [...]
At a recent discussion on Myanmar, where several senior Burmese civil society figures participated, a number of ‘real issues’ came up. One was the puzzlement of those from that country about the so-called ‘Look East Policy’ and what it meant, specifically, for Myanmar, and how those from the North-east agreed about the LEP’s failure to [...]
Premiere of 'Where there are no Roads' on the Boat Clinics of the Brahmaputra, direction and cinematography Maulee Senapati. Scripted and produced by Sanjoy Hazarika
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