By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 43) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2018) Researcher on the Boat Clinic: Pratyasha Acharya, a Market Research Associate working for the US based UnitedHealth Group, accompanied the Kamrup Boat Clinic health team Kaltuli char of Chhaygaon, Kamrup on 10th July 2018. She also visited the Boat Clinic unit…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 42) / C-NES Newsletter / April - June 2018 SALT Knowledge Fair Supported by Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) and Constellation, C-NES organized a Knowledge Fair on 27th April 2018, at Pragjyoti ITA Centre, Guwahati, Assam. Community facilitators and champions of the SALT intervened villages shared successful stories and experiences…
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: 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…