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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