The DCPO emphasised the duties and guidelines of the village-level child protection committee (VLCPC) and requested that they contact the appropriate authority.
Memories of a mysterious death blend with ecology and history in this narrative of Assam
An excerpt from ‘The Forest Beneath the Mountains’, by Ankush Saikia. Author Ankush Saikia.
One summer evening a couple of years ago, a slender man in his early thirties got down from an inter-state bus at the Mission Chariali crossroads on the outskirts of Tezpur.
He stood there for a while with his duffel bag, looking around. He remembered it as a nondescript crossing with a few dusty wood-plank shops; now there were brightly-lit stores with rubbish scattered before them, a traffic circle, and people all around waiting for buses and autos, walking this way and that. The heat seemed to be magnified by the roar of the goods and army trucks, which dwarfed the cars and autos and small buses.