Guwahati : Endeavouring to bridge the gap between the traditional and the modern, Chalachitram National Film Festival (CNFF) has, since 2017, been an important platform that exhibits heritage and harnesses the power of cinema to bring about societal change. The seventh consecutive edition will be conducted September 9 and 10 at the Jyoti Chitraban Film…
Raipur. Millions of animals are slaughtered all over the country on Eid-ul-Zuha, but, it is being heard that this time round millions of cow progeny have already been ghettoized and congressed at different places in Bharat to be put to the long knives on this day. Although, in other countries around the world, cows are…
Guwahati: Attending a meeting on the declaration of emergency, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma commented that those who resisted the declaration and endured intolerable pain and sacrificed immensely to strengthen the democratic spirit will remain as a source of inspiration for the present generation. Over 300 Loktantra Senanis and their relatives were also felicitated…
Mary Millben A night I will treasure forever. Performing for His Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the concluding event of his state visit to the USA. What I loved most about last night was listening to the voices of the audience singing. You could hear the passion of their hearts. Their souls sang with…
“Recollecting the Dark Days of Emergency” Shashikant Chauthaiwale It will not be wrong to say that the dark chapter of Emergency in the history of independent India has an unforgettable past and least possible future! In the month of June 1975, the training camp (Sangh Siksha Varg) of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the whole northeastern…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, while expressing its concern over the blocake on Asia Sentinel, an independent online media outlets fosusing on Asian news coverage, urges the Singapore government (precisely the interior minister K. Shanmugam) to withdraw the ban immediately and unconditionally. ‘Access to Asia Sentinel’s website has apparently…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated six newly constructed tea garden model schools in Sonitpur district on Thursday and commented that in the last 75 years of independence only primary schools and a limited number of ME schools were established in the tea plantation areas of the State. The tea gardens where the…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while commenting on the delimitation draft released by the Election Commission of India recently, asserted that its implementation would protect Assam and its indigenous people politically. Welcoming the draft, Sarma however expressed displeasure that a section of political elements has been cooking up a communal issue out of…
Paramesh Dutta Hindu Sanatan Dharma is basically centred around three major gods namely Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar. Among them however Vishnu is considered to be the supreme. Vishnu gave birth to Brahma from his lotus-like navel. According to our mythological belief, cosmology was assigned the duty of creation of the universe. Brahma was initially worried…
Hearty Tributes to Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha on his death anniversary. Analysis: Was Bishnu Prasad Rabha a Leftist? Bishnu Prasad Rabha was eminent for his own great work and contributions. He did not borrow anyone’s approval or ideal to prove himself as an eminent person. He always shaped himself according to the existing situation. He…
