The Northeast Notebook

Though the lyrics have been drawn from an old Mizo saying that girls and puppies are similar, the women’s organisation has accused the song of male chauvinism.

Chipping in for national games

WITH funds becoming a major headache for the state in preparing for the National Games 2005 to be hosted by Guwahati, the state government last week got its employees to pledge a day’s salary in each fiscal for two years to meet the shortfall.

This way the 15 lakh state government employees are expected to contribute about Rs 27 crore by the time the Games take off in November next year.

Australian help for Meghalaya projects

MEGHALAYA has identified five areas—tourism, power generation, education, environmental pollution control and marketing of horticultural produce—that will soon get support from Australian partners.

Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, will soon set up an international standard business school affiliated to a reputed Australian institute.

Magor award for woman writer

NOTED Assamese author Nirupama Borgohain became the first women in ten years to bag the prestigious Assam Valley Literary Award instituted by the Magor Educational Trust promoted by tea major Williamson & Magor.

Several of her 50-odd novels have been translated into different languages, with Abhiyatri—a biographical work on Chandraprabha Saikiani, the founder of women’s movement in Assam, being the most outstanding.

Naga Church opposes end to prohibition

THE Nagaland Baptist Church Council has denounced a suggestion made by various people to lift total prohibition from the state.

While the Nagaland Tourism Association called for partial lifting of the liquor ban imposed more than a decade ago at the behest of the Naga Mothers’ Association, the Church felt that total prohibition had helped ensure discipline in society.