[Assam] Any Takers for this Idea? (Letters to the Editor , The Sentinel, 10.12.2010)

2010-12-09 Thread Buljit Buragohain
Any Takers for this Idea? Coming back to Guwahati this time, I have realized that most working women are facing the problem of having to juggle housework and office as there is an acute scarcity of trained domestic help. My parents’ generation are all struggling with various old-age problems,

[Assam] Pradip Sarmah & Rickshaw Bank: Pride of North East

2010-12-09 Thread Ankur Bora
Rickshaws are a significant means of transport and conveyance in India. Most of the rickshaw pullers are victims of high daily rental fees making it nearly impossible to earn enough income to ever own a rickshaw in their lifetime. It was year 2003; a rickshaw puller was narrating his ordeal to D

Re: [Assam] High Dams in Arunachal and Assam

2010-12-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:02 AM, uttam borthakur wrote: > I have read somewhere, either in this forum or in Friends of Assam, a person > (probably Apurba Bora) from California has narrated his own first hand > experience in respect of a smaller dam generating 25MW in Ca. Beside other > problems, e

Re: [Assam] High Dams in Arunachal and Assam

2010-12-09 Thread uttam borthakur
I have read somewhere, either in this forum or in Friends of Assam, a person (probably Apurba Bora) from California has narrated his own first hand experience in respect of a smaller dam generating 25MW in Ca. Beside other problems, entire fauna of the down stream area vanished. It would take 30

Re: [Assam] assam Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9

2010-12-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hiu U: One thing we have to remember that is special about dams is that a river desecrated with a dam is not easily undone. c-da On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:44 AM, uttam borthakur wrote: > Mahanta Da, > > Is not this obvious after the ever unfolding scams, which > are more

Re: [Assam] assam Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9

2010-12-09 Thread uttam borthakur
Mahanta Da,   Is not this obvious after the ever unfolding scams, which are more discernible now due to competition in the media for viewership and readership and due to loss of one party hegemony at the centre, that all maladies ( naxalism, secessionist tendencies, terror, hors

[Assam] Book : Big Dams and Assam

2010-12-09 Thread Buljit Buragohain
Big Dams and Assam: It is a bilangual one. No of page 200 and price is Rs. 120 . The book is published by Nanda Talukdar Foundation. For purchage, can either mail to mrinal.taluk...@gmail.com or i...@nandatalukdarfoundation.org Cover page of the book: http://www.bihu.in/uploads/a/assamnews/1079.j