আংগো খবৰ :: Ango Khabar

08/08/2021

Karim Ali spent five years in Goalpara Detention Center. All his family members including his siblings and children are Indian but he was declared as a foreign national by a tribunal. While he was in detention his family suffered immense hardship. In this story, Karim and his wife discussed their suffering. Please watch and share.

06/08/2021

The char people of Assam are facing the brunt of rapid change in the river. The river bed is widening, sand deposition is increasing and a large number of fish species are going extinct.

Floods are getting more intense and unpredictable. Traditional agricultural practices are vanishing.

Along with ecological challenges like flood, erosion and soil degradation their citizenship rights are at the stake.

Is climate change responsible for the increased vulnerability of char residents?

04/08/2021

Ango Khabar brings you an exclusive story of boat racing with a troupe from Balikuri Part 2 village in the Barpeta district of Assam. Amir Boyati talks about various aspects of boat racing to us. Enjoy!

03/08/2021

Kurban Ali Choudhury is an author, poet and researcher. He is a pioneer of documentation and preservation of Miya Folk Culture. As part of our Oral History Project, Ango Khabar attempts to document his life and work.

His life intersects with various socio-political and historical events of Assam. He narrates some of these important historical events. In his youth, he participated actively in civil rights movements. During the Assam Agitation (1979-85) his community was subjected to violence. Thousands of Miya and Bengali Hindu people and Communists were killed in different parts of Assam. He remembers how some people from the majority community worked for peace and reconciliation.

He witnessed the Bodo Movement from close proximity. In the two decade long movement several million people were displaced and thousands died.

He was greatly influenced by his two teachers Ambika Charan Choudhury and Phulkumari Kalita to document and preserve Miya Folk Culture.

His efforts and dedication have been recognized and celebrated by civil society and the government.

He believes he has planted a seed of hope. One day his community will get the due recognition through the work of the next generation.

02/08/2021

Sahadat is a wandering troubadour. He was born in Sontoli, Assam, but doesn't have a home or address anymore. His only family, an adult son, works in Bangalore. He sings in village fairs and markets for a living. The only thing Sahadat calls his own is his dotara.

01/08/2021

Lafikul Islam Ahmed was the president of All BTC Minority Students' Union (ABMSU). He was a fireband minority students' leader. He led various campaigns for the upliftment of marginalized social groups of his community. He was assassinated on 1st August 2017. His family and admirers still await for justice.

09/07/2021

More than 3 lakhs people like Mr. Ali
were arbitarily marked as D voters
and many of their citizenship are still
suspended.

06/07/2021

23/05/2021

আমাৰ পোলায়ো হিকছে শহৰেৰ গালি !

Poet Siraj Khan recites one of his most powerful and beautiful poems.

Ango Khabar wishes him very good health and a long life.

01/03/2021

Amrapari or 'we can' is a collective of artisans from char-chapori areas of Assam. They envisage a world without hunger and patriarchy.

Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown brought unprecedented challenges to the lives of women living in char-chapori areas of Assam.

As Covid-19 hit Assam, Manjuwara Mullah, a women rights activist was concerned about the conditions of the vulnerable people living on the char-chapori areas. She reached out to the women to form a collective for their well-being, self-reliance and to build resilience to fight against gender inequality.

Amrapari has not only created an alternative means of livelihood for the women but actively breaking patriarchal stereotypes.

21/11/2020

Sahadat is a wandering troubadour. He was born in Sontoli, Assam, but doesn't have a home or address anymore. His only family, an adult so...

06/11/2020

In the month of September, 2020, 12 children, aged between 13 and 17 years, were trafficked from Barpeta district of Assam to a remote village called Dadabasti in Arunachal Pradesh. They were kept as bonded labour for nearly a month and engaged in stone crushing and road construction work.

13 years old Anarul, 14 years old Jiyarul, 15 years old Hafijur, a17 years old Samir and 8 others are from villages in the southern part of Barpeta district. Because of perennial flood and erosion, these children have very limited opportunity for education. The covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown has further deprived these children education.

These children belong to economically poor families. Their parents are mostly migrant workers engaged in brick kiln, construction sites and other manual works in urban areas. The lockdown made them jobless and the children were forced to discontinue their education.

Taking advantage of their vulnerability child traffickers approach them and their parents. The traffickers offered them advance money and assurance decent work.

They were informed that the work site in Assam’s North Lakhmipur district but they were taken to Arunachal Pradesh. They were kept in temporary shelter made of bamboo and tarpaulin, set up in one of the hillocks. They were not provided with basic requirements like drinking water, toilets and sufficient food.

Young children were engaged in hazardous stone crushing work. They worked hard without sufficient food which made them weak and susceptible to diseases. Unknown insect bites caused them infection, their feet swallowed, they could hardly walk. But their repeated request for medicine and rest were turned down. Rather they were threatened with dire consequences if they stop working.

They toiled from 5.30 in the morning to 6.00 in the evening. Except insufficient food they were not provided any wages for their hard labour. They were neither allowed to communicate with their family nor allowed to go back to their homes.

After almost a month Childline Barpeta filed a complaint with the police and co-ordinated with a child rights activist named Nama Dodum in East-Kameng district.

Released from the clutches of the traffickers and back home, they have to now fight against the abject poverty and hunger. And the hope for getting back to school is still alive.

However for some of them the responsibility to feed and keep alive their ailing parents is more important than dream of getting educated.

29/09/2020

Naukhela (Boat Race) is one of most widely celebrated sports in the community. Every year boat races begin on Independence Day but this year due to the lockdown the celebrations began late.Musical performance is one of the most important components of boat racing.The Boyati (singer) sings various songs starting from mythological stories to romantic songs to songs about contemporary political events.The Boyati controls the race through the variation of song and rhythm. Through the joy and celebration of boat races they forget the horrors of floods and other disasters.

22/09/2020

An analysis of Abhishek Saha 's opinion piece for Indian Express titled 'No Kamala Harris in Assam'.
Link to the original piece: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/assam-accord-nrc-caa-kamala-harris-6585729/

22/09/2020

An Analysis of Kamatapur Autonomous Council

18/09/2020

An Analysis of Kamatapur Autonomous Council

13/09/2020

The floodwaters have receded but the lives affected by the recent floods in Assam are still caught in the struggle of leading a basic normal life. The lack of an efficient early warning system, raised platforms to house people and livestock, and proper rehabilitation measures have led to fields of rotting crops and an uncertain future for the farmers.

11/09/2020

An analysis of Abhishek Saha 's opinion piece for Indian Express titled 'No Kamala Harris in Assam'.
Link to the original piece: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/assam-accord-nrc-caa-kamala-harris-6585729/

27/08/2020

The floodwaters have receded but the lives affected by the recent floods in Assam are still caught in the struggle of leading a basic normal life. The lack of an efficient early warning system, raised platforms to house people and livestock, and proper rehabilitation measures have led to fields of rotting crops and an uncertain future for the farmers.

17/08/2020

On this Independence Day, an Adivasi students' leader Mansuk Sankharika speaks on the issues and aspirations of Adivasi communities in Assam.
Adavisis were brought to Assam by British to work as indentured labours in the tea garden. Today they are one of the most marginalized communities in Assam.
As Adivasi, their counter parts in other states are given constitutional protection as scheduled tribes (ST). But in Assam officially they are known as Tea and Ex-Tribes community in Assam.
They are fighting to reclaim their Adivasi identity and Schedule Tribe status under Indian Constitution.

On this Independence Day, an Adivasi students' leader Mansuk Sankharika speaks on the issues and aspirations of Adivasi communities in Ass...

16/08/2020

On this Independence Day, an Adivasi students' leader Mansuk Sankharika speaks on the issues and aspirations of Adivasi communities in Assam.

Adavisis were brought to Assam by British to work as indentured labours in the tea garden. Today they are one of the most marginalized communities in Assam.

As Adivasi, their counter parts in other states are given constitutional protection as scheduled tribes (ST). But in Assam officially they are known as Tea and Ex-Tribes community in Assam.

They are fighting to reclaim their Adivasi identity and Schedule Tribe status under Indian Constitution.

15/08/2020

Every year Independence Day is celebrated in the chars of Assam with massive naukhela (boat-racing) events. This year social distancing norms and other restrictions necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic have made this unique method of celebrating independence impossible. Ango Khabar brings you an exclusive interview with a naukhela troupe from Balikuri No 2 village in the Barpeta district of Assam.

22/07/2020

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Here is the link to original story: https://www.facebook.com/angokhabarassam/videos/565663497446587

21/07/2020

21/07/2020

Heartbreaking update:

Remember Sahera Khatun? She was talking about the challenges faced by her physically challenged young son in the flood? Most tragically her 17 years old son Saiful DIED last night.

Please pray for victims.

Link to original story: https://www.facebook.com/angokhabarassam/videos/565663497446587