One of India’s greatest patriots, educationists, fearless campaigners for national unity Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was recently remembered for his exceptional contributions to the country in general and Assam in particular. The regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in collaboration with Assam directorate of Museums, Indigenous and Tribal Faith and Culture…
If language alone were the foundation of a state or of our identity, then why did Andhra Pradesh, the first state in Bharat to be formed on linguistic grounds in 1953, get divided into two Telugu-speaking states in 2014: Andhra and Telangana? Same language, yet different political aspirations. The truth is clear – language alone…
The natural gas leakage from Bhatiapar crude oil well continues for 15 days, even though the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) along with an expert team from USA continue working for full dousing of the RDS-147A under Rudrasagar oilfield in Sivasagar district of eastern Assam. The blowout began on 12 June 2025 and uncontrolled…
Mumbai. The land of Bharat has, since time immemorial, been the sacred mother of valiant women, saintly rulers, and epoch-making reformers. From the pages of history rise such iconic figures who not only transformed their times but set the spiritual and administrative benchmarks for posterity. Among them, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar stands tall a beacon of…
Five Years back, in the night of February 23, 2020 major communal violence erupted in East Delhi. Anti-social elements accompanied by some anti-national goons started violent agitation in the name of protests against The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, which was passed by both houses of parliament by a thumping majority of votes and got accent…
It may be surprising for many that the country’s statutory and quasi-judicial body Press Council of India (PCI), which is assigned to safeguard the freedom of Press in the largest democracy of the globe remains non-functional for nearly five months. Even after the term of 14th Press Council expired on 5 October 2024, no…
The international community, so does the global media, may overlook the ongoing civil war like situation in Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh), but the ground situation indicates an everlasting chaos in the southeast Asian nation where thousands have been killed, another few thousands injured and millions of people including women and children…
Probably for decades, the people living in eastern India have been talking about the hydro-electrical dams in upper riparian Tibet (now under occupation of China since 1951) which has the potential to devastate the entire region following a man-made error or natural disasters precisely a high intensity earthquake. For the millions of Brahmaputra river…
Nava Thakuria As Assam Chief Minister Dr HimantaBiswaSarma concluded his successful visit to the neighbouring country, Druk Yul has seemingly come closer to the people of northeast Bharat. Sarma, who embarked on the official visit (16-19 December 2024) following an invitation from the Royal Bhutan government in Thimphu, discussed a series of bilateral issues with…
Nava Thakuria The unfolding of events in the last few months may concentrate the apprehension that our immediate neighbour Bangladesh may return back to its earlier identity, an Islamic regime. Once a part of undivided Bharat, the Muslim majority region emerged as East Pakistan in 1947 and later got a new identity as a…
