NDFB (P) bats for Misings’ Sixth Schedule
According to media reports,the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Progressive) has submitted a latest memorandum to the Centre asking for granting Sixth Schedule to the Mising tribe too,the second largest tribe of Assam .The Rabhas and Tiwas demand for the same have been included ,local newspapers published from Guwahati said here.The NDFB(P) is the...
While conversion of Misings to religion like Christian or Islam normally make news, the other kind of 'religious conversion' by Misings does not often make it to news papers or discussion among Mising intellectuals or Mising youths.
The other kind of religious conversion by Misings are like converting to 'Sankari Sangha', Thakur Anukul etc. which are kind of rigid sect of Hinduism. It is no doub...
By : Bhaskar Pegu
2001 Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University,USA ,former chief economist of World Bank and former economic advisor to Bill Clinton' government ,who was in Assam, visited Buruli,considered as Mising tribe's last traditional habitat in the north bank of Brahmaputra,especially two Mising villages named Baligaon and Bukagaon at Balipara in Sonitpur district of Assam yes...
By : Bhaskar Pegu
The 11th issue of Mising magazine name d Asinang Onam published by Mising(also spelled Mishing ) Society of Mumbai(MSM) has traced the root of Mising tribe's first everpost independence ethnic literary organization Mising Agom Kebang(MAK) to Adi-Mising picnic based at Cotton College,a premier institution of learning of Northeastern India.The latest issue of the journal from the...
Blog by Prafulla Kaman
It is somewhat surprising but true that since early 80s ‘Assam Bandh’ has been a frequently heard and unpopular words in Arunachal Pradesh, particularly in districts bordering Assam.
It is because; the people of Arunachal have to cross Assam to go to other places of the state due to communication bottleneck.
For instance, Bomdila, the district headquarter of West Kameng i...