Bertil Lintner, Swedish journalist, author and expert on south east Asia conflict studies (right) releasing “Troubled Periphery- crisis of India’s north east” written by Subir Bhaumik (left) in Guwahati on Tuesday, 15 December 2009. This book maps the evolution of India’s North East into a constituent region of the republic and analyses the perpetual crisis in the region since independence.
Subir Bhaumik is an eminent journalist and academic researcher from the soil of Tripura. He has been with BBC since 1994 and his previous journalistic assignments include Reuters, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, PTI and Time Magazine. He has been Queen Elizabeth House Fellow at Oxford University (1989-90) and Eurasian-Nets Fellow at Frankfurt University (2009).
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Indian Council for Cultural Relation (ICCR) has included Assam’s traditional song and dance in two shows in Beijing and Shanghai in China in the second phase of the tour to Russia and China. “We will be the pioneer in China presenting Assam’s Bihu for the first time.”- said Ranjit Gogoi. There...
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