Share List Atlanta Mahanta Way back Assam was shaken by a massive earthquake of 8.6 magnitude on Richter scale. It made the mighty Brahmaputra to go topsy-turvy. The river has never been steady after that. The state saw 12 major floods from 1950 to 2010 before it became an annualContinue Reading
Share List Amanpreet Kaur Washisht It has become difficult to judge whether The Brahmaputra and Barak rivers during the monsoon are a boon or a bane, a cause of regular devastation in the land of Assam. Water is life but too much of anything is bad. Natural overload of rainsContinue Reading
Share List Hrishikesh Sarma Assam – The land of blue hills and red rivers is one of the most beautiful states in Northeast India. The annual rainfall of the state is around 1500 mm and above. One of the perennial problems being faced by lakhs in Assam is floods andContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It was a lesson in the sixth grade English textbook – an excerpt from the letter an exiled father wrote to his teenage daughter, which was later published by Allahabad Law Journal Press titled as ‘Letters from a Father to His Daughter’. Parts of the letterContinue Reading
Share List Suresh Uniyal When we talk about Nobel Peace Prize, one question that haunts us is why the epitome of peace and the staunch supporter of non-violence Mahatma Gandhi never ended up getting this prestigious award. It’s not that Bapu was never considered for the honour. In fact, betweenContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed Covert and overt aggression has been the hallmark of powerful nations throughout the course of human history and China is emerging as a recent prototype of the tradition of power games. The Wikipedia states the People’s Republic of China as the third or the fourth largestContinue Reading
Share List Rishabh Chokhani As the world deals with a global pandemic, Covid-19, we are forced to introspect our choices and make amends to save our future generations from re-occurrence of another pandemic. This situation has led the entire human race to contemplate the best ways to ensure optimal utilizationContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed Family is the smallest unit where humans interact and engage. It consists of a household with different personalities and our engagement at the micro level determines the society we intricately yet unknowingly build at the macro level. Many of us react vehemently to societal inequality playedContinue Reading
Share List Keshav Chaturvedi This year the World Environment Day (June 5) assumed a special significance. Every year a clutch of environmentalists, experts and media persons would try to bring to notice the ill impacts of environment degradation on human life. But not many cared. The threat may have beenContinue Reading
Share List Keshav Chaturvedi The sight of millions of migrant labourers trudging back home on foot was a sight that will haunt the conscience of our society for a long time to come. With migrants labourers returning to their homes, chances are that a large chunk of them will notContinue Reading