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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Prof. C.B. SharmaMobile : 9540464978, 011-29531457, 29571709E-mail: depssa@ignou.ac.in, khageshkumar@ignou.ac.in
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