Documenting an Emerging Personality in the Region
The present state of affair in North East is due to interaction of diverse psychological, historical, social, political and economic factors.
· The deep sense of perpetual grudge in the minds of the people,
· antagonism and mistrust among various sections of the society,
· lack of a sense of belonging, and the continuing communication gap aggravate the situation.
In independent India, either the NE region as a whole or parts of it have almost always remained in political and social turmoil. Both Government and non-governmental organizations have been engaged in carrying out hectic exercises to examine the problems of Northeast India. But, unfortunately most of these exercises cover segments of the problem in isolation. So, in view of paucity of authentic data on contemporary events in the turbulent North East India, urgent need for documentation of reliable published material is felt for quite some time. ‘The North East India Clippings”, a monthly compilation of clippings which has emerged as the outcome of some serious exercises in that direction, is aimed at filling up this information gap about the region and to be of help to the policymakers, academicians, administrators and students for record and references. ‘The North East India Clippings’, is a pioneering endeavor to record the dynamics of interrelationship between the people and their environment - social, cultural, economic, political and physical –in the region.
A lot of things are happening in and around the North East. And interest in the region is generated, more or less, over some explosive issues drawing headlines in the national press. But in the eagerness to cover the immediate, the fact is often lost sight of that many more complicated and complex factors are always working either in concert or in contradiction – silently and imperceptibly and a long process is culminating in the present explosion. A desire for a closer view and greater knowledge of the North East among the policy-makers and academicians is very much evident. Whatever little data is available to them point to the exciting possibilities of multidimensional experiments in the coming days. News of these small day-to-day developments missed in the metropolitan dailies, are meticulously reported in the regional press.
THE NORTH EAST INDIA CLIPPINGS in its exercise to help the media, policymakers and researchers to keep a watch on the trend of events in the region, intends to give more emphasis on hard news collected from the regional press than those scattered in national newspapers. The journal intends to give more emphasis on collecting news from all the states as reported by regional press and will contain nearly 1000-1500 clippings. Besides, the DOCUMENTS SECTION of each issue will contain relevant documents collected from different government and non-government organizations, students unions autonomy movements and other conflicts, statistics of casualties due to secessionist movements by organizations active in the region but operating from our neighboring countries, causing a threat to the internal security of not only the region but the country as a whole.
· The deep sense of perpetual grudge in the minds of the people,
· antagonism and mistrust among various sections of the society,
· lack of a sense of belonging, and the continuing communication gap aggravate the situation.
In independent India, either the NE region as a whole or parts of it have almost always remained in political and social turmoil. Both Government and non-governmental organizations have been engaged in carrying out hectic exercises to examine the problems of Northeast India. But, unfortunately most of these exercises cover segments of the problem in isolation. So, in view of paucity of authentic data on contemporary events in the turbulent North East India, urgent need for documentation of reliable published material is felt for quite some time. ‘The North East India Clippings”, a monthly compilation of clippings which has emerged as the outcome of some serious exercises in that direction, is aimed at filling up this information gap about the region and to be of help to the policymakers, academicians, administrators and students for record and references. ‘The North East India Clippings’, is a pioneering endeavor to record the dynamics of interrelationship between the people and their environment - social, cultural, economic, political and physical –in the region.
A lot of things are happening in and around the North East. And interest in the region is generated, more or less, over some explosive issues drawing headlines in the national press. But in the eagerness to cover the immediate, the fact is often lost sight of that many more complicated and complex factors are always working either in concert or in contradiction – silently and imperceptibly and a long process is culminating in the present explosion. A desire for a closer view and greater knowledge of the North East among the policy-makers and academicians is very much evident. Whatever little data is available to them point to the exciting possibilities of multidimensional experiments in the coming days. News of these small day-to-day developments missed in the metropolitan dailies, are meticulously reported in the regional press.
THE NORTH EAST INDIA CLIPPINGS in its exercise to help the media, policymakers and researchers to keep a watch on the trend of events in the region, intends to give more emphasis on hard news collected from the regional press than those scattered in national newspapers. The journal intends to give more emphasis on collecting news from all the states as reported by regional press and will contain nearly 1000-1500 clippings. Besides, the DOCUMENTS SECTION of each issue will contain relevant documents collected from different government and non-government organizations, students unions autonomy movements and other conflicts, statistics of casualties due to secessionist movements by organizations active in the region but operating from our neighboring countries, causing a threat to the internal security of not only the region but the country as a whole.
posted by marvin at 10:58 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home