Photos
Tracking trouble
Railway officials checking railway tracks at Lumding in Nagaon district of Assam on July 17, 2009.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Mela purchase
A farmer carries back a pumpset from the Kisan Mela organised by Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and District Agriculture Department at Bokoliaghat, 62 km from Diphu, district headquarter of Karbi Anglong district, Assam on July 15, 2009. Half a million people in the state have been forced from their homes after flash floods inundated towns and villages, destroying property, crops and livestock. Ten of Assam's 27 districts have been affected, including Majuli island - the world's largest inhabited riverine island where around 100,000 people are believed to be marooned.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Seeds of hope
Farmers queue up for collecting seeds and agricultural materials during the Kisan Mela organised by Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and District Agriculture Department at Bokoliaghat, 62 km from Diphu, district headquarter of Karbi Anglong district, Assam on July 15, 2009. Half a million people in the state have been forced from their homes after flash floods inundated towns and villages, destroying property, crops and livestock. Ten of Assam's 27 districts have been affected, including Majuli island - the world's largest inhabited riverine island where around 100,000 people are believed to be marooned.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Cooling off
Children enjoying a bath under a water supply tap on a hot, sunny day at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district, Assam on July 13, 2009.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Traffic policed
An eight-member gang of inter-state traffickers was arrested by the police at Lumding in Assam on July 16, 2009.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh