National award winning Youth Assamese Journalist Amarjyoti Borah has been selected for the Wolfson Press Fellowship offered by Cambridge University, United Kingdom. The three month fellowship will start from April 19 and during the course of the fellowship the fellows will research on their selected subject areas.
Amarjyoti has already made a mark in the field of Environment Reporting. In 2007 he was adjudged the “Youth Environmental Journalist (print) of the Year” by the Forum of Environment Journalists at New Delhi. Again in 2008 he was among 15 Journalists from Asia, Europe and Africa who were selected for a scholarship to attend a two months advanced training on environment reporting at Berlin, Germany. The scholarship and training was offered by the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin.
The Wolfson Press Fellowship brings Journalists from various countries to Wolfson College, Cambridge University to research on a particular topic of interest to the Journalist. Amarjyoti will be researching on the issues of Climate Change and the Environment Refugees.
“My area of case study will be the impacts of Climate change on the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh, and its impacts on the human population”, says Amarjyoti. “I will also be concentrating on issues of the rights of the people there, and the views of the international community and international organisations on these issues”, adds Amarjyoti.
Amarjyoti has been reporting for “Down to Earth”, a leading Environment and Science magazine and have covered many major issues related to the North. The coverage on the destruction of the heritage caves in the Jaintia hills in Meghalaya has been widely appreciated. Besides this, his coverage of the much neglected oil spill issue at Changpang in Nagaland along with exclusive interview of NSCH leaders on this issue have had major impacts. Amarjyoti has also reported extensively on the impacts of Climate Change on different aspects of human life. “The entire North East is reeling under severe impacts of climate change. The consequences could be devastating in the future”, says Amarjyoti.
Amarjyoti, who has several achievement to his name is a resident of Rukmini Nagar, Guwahati and is the younger son of Sri Hiren Borah and Nizara Bora.
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Update from Golaghat: KMSS stages a dharna at Golaghat on 28th Feb infront of DC office demanding the suspension and arrest of OC Borpathar Police Station, Mr. Ranjit Moran who is alleged to abet the suicide of Anjan Barua a KMSS member.Untill and unless their demands are met, KMSS will sit in a hunger strike infront of the DC office. The dead body of Anjan Barua is still lying iin Golaghat...
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The 1st Guwahati International Short Film Festival (GISFF) by Creovaent Productions will be held from April 4 to April 5, 2011 at Cinemax, Guwahati. The Guwahati International Short Film Festival (GISFF) is now taking short films for Short Film Competition (restricted only to filmmakers from North-East Region for the first year) and for Indian Kaleidoscope section.
Short Filmmakers from other parts of India can download the same entry form available in the website and send in their entries for Indian Kaleidoscope section. For the first year there will be no entry fees for submitting the short films.
For rules and regulations and entry form, please visit the festival website: www....
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Centre is very positive on the on going peace process with ULFA. Chairman of the outfit Arabinda Rajkhowa told media after arriving in Guwahati from Delhi on Tuesday. Rajkhowa said the process would ensure permanent peace in Assam.
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