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Dear friends,
Here is a small news item for your information and use.
Regards,
Nava Thakuria,
Guwahati Press Club,
Assam.
*GPC congratulates Panos fellows *
Guwahati Press Club (GPC) has congratulated the Panos South Asia media
fellowship 2007-08 fellows including Paragmoni Aditya, a city based
journalist associated with Dainik Janasadharan. An active member of the
press club, Mr Aditya will do a comprehensive study of the causes, effects
and consequent aftermath of insurgencies in Northeast. The energetic
journalist is expected to find some solutions to the trauma of insurgency
through interviews and field trips to different places of Sibsagar,
Goalpara, Nagaon, Udalguri, Karbi Anglong, N.C. Hills the Mizoram border.
Four other fellows for the year include Sapam Aruna from Manipur (she
proposes to highlight the ground realities of the Manipur conflict and
strive for a resolution by bringing the voices of affected people to the
forefront through field visits to interior areas), Arup Jyoti Das from Assam
(he proposes to document and explore the contours of this Kamatapuri
movement- the political and social history of the Koch Rajbongsis, the
politics of the annexation of the princely state, the dynamics of the
Bengali quotient, their struggle for self-determinism, KLOs demand for a
sovereign Kamatapur state, demand for their inclusion in the ST list, etc),
Snehasis Das from Orissa (he plans to study the myriad threats to Loktak
Lake in Manipur and also issues like insurgency that has been a major hurdle
in the lake development) and Shaswati Goswami from Assam (she proposes to
document and report on the resource alienation and political assertion among
the Misings.
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