Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College releases books on human rights and gender issues in New Delhi

November 27, 2011 Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College, Nagaon, Assam has organized a book release program at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi today. The books are on the issues of human rights and condition of women titled “Insurgency, Counter Insurgency and the issues of Human Rights” and “Women Issues and Perspectives”, edited by Arindam Borkataki and Neeta Sharma respectively and published by Dr.S.U.Ahmed on behalf of the college.

Taking the Jajabor’s Journey Forward – The troubled legacy of Bhupen Hazarika:

Mayur Chetia and Nayanjyoti

Mourning people from across Assam assemble in miles and miles of roads leading up to Bhupen Hazarika’s funeral. He’s a restless jajabor/wanderer no more. Paeans after paeans are being sung now after the ‘great cultural hero’, the ‘greatest Assamese’, the believer in ‘the power of the nation’ (the ‘nation’ being Akhand Bharat or Brihottor Axom, depending on whichever variety of nationalists sing). Bhupenda is dead. Assam is in despair.
Despair and tears are nothing new to be offered by the people of the region, daily humiliated by their exploited, displaced existence. These intricacies of social existence lie shining sharply or muffled in Hazarika’s songs and journey over the years. The music is everywhere, even at the funeral, where of the reported 100,000 people, more were singing than crying. There is arguably no one in Assam who has not known, loved, hated, listened and sung Hazarika, and whom he has not sung of. And this is much before mass media as we know today existed.

Demonising effect of Pollution in Deepor Beel

In Greek Mythology, Medusa is said to be one of the prominent female demons, Euryale happens to be Medusa’s sister .

India’s New Mining Bill: A Few Questions

by Stella Paul

Its official, the government of India is ready with the table of Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Bill, 2011 - a draft law that allows local people get the financial benefits ofmining activities.