Photos
Struggling on
A Karbi woman weaving a traditional dress in a remote village in Karbi Anglong district, Assam on May 2, 2009. More than 100 of people lost their lives, several injured and thousands of houses burnt, where people were homeless during the Karbi-Dimasa ethnic clash in Karbi Anglong district in 2005. Yet thousands of homeless families fight to live on in the hilly district.
Weaving on
A Karbi woman weaving a traditional dress in a remote village in Karbi Anglong district, Assam on May 2, 2009. More than 100 of people lost their lives, several injured and thousands of houses burnt, where people were homeless during the Karbi-Dimasa ethnic clash in Karbi Anglong district in 2005. Yet thousands of homeless families fight to live on in the hilly district.
Eye on street
Security force personnel keep vigil on a deserted street during the 72-hour Karbi Anglong district bandh called by militant group KLNLF at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on May 2, 2009.
Keeping an eye
A security force personnel keeps vigil on a deserted street during the 72-hour Karbi Anglong district bandh called by militant group KLNLF at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district of Assam on May 2, 2009.
Workers on May Day
Labourers work on the construction of a road at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district in Assam on May 1, 2009, while the world celebrates May Day or International Workers’ Day that commemorates the fight for the eight-hour working day that happened in Haymarket square in Chicago in 1886.
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