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 Newsletter of North East India Research Forum
 
 N. E. Quest; Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2009.
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 Newsletter of North East India Research Forum
 
 N. E. Quest; Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2009.
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 Newsletter of North East India Research Forum
 
 N. E. Quest; Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2009.
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 Unleashing scientific creativity in North East India
Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.
-Antonio Machado
 If they answer not thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,O thou of evil luck,Open thy mind and speak out alone.
 -“Ekla Chalo Re”, Rabindranath TagoreHow do we ignite the buddingscientific minds in our slumbering NE,caught in a ‘time warp’ in this 21stcentury? How do we create that subtlesynergy of dreams and realities? Howto nurture them by creating informalchannels of communication despite therigid formal structures? How can weensure that our scientific Cinderellasare catapulted to the global science platform in the next 20 years or so?We have our own icons-BhupenHazarika, Jahnu Barua, IndiraGoswami, P. A. Sangma, RatanThiyam, Aribam Shyam Sharma,Kunjarani etc in the cultural, literary, political and sports fields. How do wecreate such icons in the sphere of science? Can we fondly imagine thatone among us would be countedamong the probables for the nextIndian science Nobel laureate, if anycan emerge by 2020?2009 falls at a historical crossroads:the meeting of the Knowledge Society,Asian Century and BiotechMillennium. For flowering of our science innovation, we need a churningof our collective consciousness, a kindof ‘
Samudra Manthan’
for our scienceeducation and mission-orientedresearch. We do have rich natural,human and bioresources. We need toutilize them through advanced inputsof S & T and transmute them intovalue-added, products, goods andservices. We may create networks of agro-industries with a backbone of clusters of bioindustries to transformour NE economy and society.In the global context too, this year 2009 marks the celebration of twogreat events: the 400
th
anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic observation and150
th
anniversary of ‘Origin of Species(and 200
th
anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth). One is aboutevolution of ‘unthinking matter’ andthe other about ‘thinking matter’- the journey from bacteria to humans withall sorts of possibilities-agonies,ecstasies, dreams, imagination, vision,violence, war and poetry!Unless we bring in extra-scientific belief systems, we must elucidate how‘cosmic dust’ evolved into ‘thinkingmatter’, matter that can reflect onitself, write poems, commit murders,dream, visualize, and do science!This may not necessitate charting outan altogether new path as compared toseeing things in a new way. For “ones
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pragyan06now

Dear Editor, North East Quest, It was really an amazing experience to have an online journal like yours. Especially because you are working in a troubled and distant corner of the country. I went through your editorial. It was really motivating one. I hope the style and commitment, you have, will made us imagine, if we’re not imagining yet, that one of us will be counted among the next Indian science Nobel Laureate. Though I try to a man of scientific temperament, I’m not a student of Science. I took special interest to your journal only because I too edit one such journal PRAGYAN from Tinsukia College. As you know that, not a single college of the region has such an environment that it effort to publish one complete research oriented journal like yours. So, we tried to be a little Student oriented. We publish everything which will benefit student folk along with the teachers. We have been publishing it since 2003. From the last year embark on net. You will find it here: http://sites.google.com/site/pragyan0.... Like the latest issue of NE QUEST we too tried to cover up the International Year of Astronomy in our last June, 09 issue. Though, except two write ups on Total Solar Eclipse we failed to get any better articles like you. Anyway, I hope we can work together. I’ll surely make a news and if possible a review of your journal in our forth coming issue which will come up in the month of October next. I wish you will keep your efforts up! Sushanta Kar Lecturer in Bengali & Executive Editor,Pragyan Tinsukia College. P.S. I wanted to be a member of your yahoo group. But, the form asked me if I’m doing any research and if so in which institute. I failed to fill up these space so it didn’t accepted me as member. Is there no other way out, so that I can stay in touch with you?

reply08 / 04 / 2009
pragyan06now

It's a really unique attempt.I'll come back after reading!

reply07 / 22 / 2009
N_E_QUEST

To Pragyan, Thank you very much for your comment on the N.E.Quest. Sorry for delay in posting the reply as I don't regularly open the Scribe. We are including your comment in the forthcoming issue of the N.E.Quest. Hope to see your help in future in popularising N.E.Quest as well as the North East India Research Forum. Thanks Arindam

10 / 11 / 2009
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