"NORTHEAST INDIA has turned in to a land of happenings. From insurgency to ethnic tension and economic activities to cultural discourses, it started drawing the attention of media worldwide. The alienated region of the country has suddenly woken up to an anniversary of a massacre that took place 25 years back in Assam. A senior Indian journalist released a book on the issue in the national capital recently and suddenly a group of reporters began to pile up their reporting space with the memory of the carnage. Many of them even did not bother to check the old information, while putting those in their fresh columns (as might be nobody bothers about Northeast)."
Read full article on http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=130768
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
How to fix India's troubled north-east
An article by Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics, Cornell University.
"Tucked away between China, Burma and Bangladesh, and linked to the rest of India by a sliver of north Bengal that arches over Bangladesh, India's north-east is a region of amazing grace - charming people, ancient cultures and bountiful nature. "
Read full article on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7232114.stm
"Tucked away between China, Burma and Bangladesh, and linked to the rest of India by a sliver of north Bengal that arches over Bangladesh, India's north-east is a region of amazing grace - charming people, ancient cultures and bountiful nature. "
Read full article on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7232114.stm
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