By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 40) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2017) Singapore Documentary covers Boat Clinic An award-winning content production company from Singapore Filmat36 (S) Pte Ltd, featured C-NES in the upcoming season of their series, Kembara Kasih (A Journey of Love). This Travel-Documentary series follows the journey of their host and…
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…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 37) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter January – March 2017) Editorial Of Big Ideas and Litmus Tests for Sonowal Public memory is a fickle thing. Public aspirations soar at times of hope and opportunity, such as when the Bharatiya Janata Party led the assault on Congress strongholds in Assam last…
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: 35) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2016) C-NES – Manipal University Collaboration A memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaboration was signed on 8th July, 2016 between Manipal University, Karnataka and the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research(C-NES). Manipal University is a leading university with extensive technical…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 34) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2016) Editorial By the Brahmaputra Vulnerability and a time of terror In the space of a few dramatic weeks, so much has changed in our one and extremely vulnerable world– or seems to have. But has it, really? It just seems so…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 33) C-NES Newsletter(For the Quarter January – March 2016)Editorial By the Brahmaputra And now for Jivika, Swasthya, XikhyaAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched, Sarbananda Sonowal took the oath of office as Chief Minister of Assam with his cabinet colleagues before an enthusiastic crowd which braved sweltering temperatures to witness the new…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 32) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2015) Editorial / By the Brahmaputra The Man on the Highway The man lay crumpled on the highway, wearing a brown jacket and dark trousers. A checked handkerchief was next to his knee and he looked as if he was sleeping. Was he…
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…