An interesting debate involving the media fraternity of north-east India recently surfaced with two major issues, is it logically correct for an editor of a daily newspaper to regularly write a column for another daily (where both competing dailies are published in the same language) ? Moreover does the practice indirectly establish that the columnist-editor…
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…
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…
Nava Thakuria Overcoming the territory of a traditional literature festival across India, Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2024 showcased a series of panel discussions and special sessions with eminent authors to motivate the audience to look beyond the current narrative in search of roots. The three-day LitFest (13, 14 and 15 December) at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra…
The recently concluded by-polls for 48 legislative assembly constituencies in 14 States (along with two Parliamentary seats in Kerala and Maharashtra) of India reveal that 41 assembly seats were vacated by the representatives of different political parties (irrespective of ideologies or status in the governments) after they were elected to Lok Sabha. One may…
