Photos
Solitary player
An old Kuki man playing a traditional music instrument at a remote viilage in North Cachar Hills district of Assam on June 28, 2009.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Waiting for rains
A woman at a parched paddy field at Rajapathar, some 83 km from Diphu, district headquarter of Karbi Anglong district, on June 28, 2009. During the period between May 25 and June 19 this year, according to the Regional Meterological Centre at Guwahati, Meghalaya recorded a deficit rainfall of 75% - the highest. Nagaland is not far behind a deficit rainfall of 60%. Assam recorded 31% deficit rainfall, Arunachal Pradesh 35%, Manipur 38%, Mizoram 36% and Tripura 21% during this period marking the first 25 days of the current monsoon season.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Waiting for rains
A woman at a parched paddy field at Rajapathar, some 83 km from Diphu, district headquarter of Karbi Anglong district, on June 28, 2009. During the period between May 25 and June 19 this year, according to the Regional Meterological Centre at Guwahati, Meghalaya recorded a deficit rainfall of 75% - the highest. Nagaland is not far behind a deficit rainfall of 60%. Assam recorded 31% deficit rainfall, Arunachal Pradesh 35%, Manipur 38%, Mizoram 36% and Tripura 21% during this period marking the first 25 days of the current monsoon season.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Resumption of services
Commuters at Lower Haflong railway station in North Cachar Hills district of Assam on June 26, 2009. Train services in the 184 km route between Lumding and Badarpur resumed on June 25 after a period of three months. In all, 81 people (including 22 security personnel) have been killed in 52 attacks on trains (both passenger and goods) by militants between March 2006 and May 2009 in North Cachar Hills district.
Copyright:
Hemanta Kumar Nath
Resumption of services
Commuters at Lower Haflong railway station in North Cachar Hills district of Assam on June 26, 2009. Train services in the 184 km route between Lumding and Badarpur resumed on June 25 after a period of three months. In all, 81 people (including 22 security personnel) have been killed in 52 attacks on trains (both passenger and goods) by militants between March 2006 and May 2009 in North Cachar Hills district.
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