Studio Nilima

We’re looking for 2 Legal Strategy Associates to join our team at Pratidhwani (The Echo), a unit of Studio Nilima in Guwahati, Assam to be engaged in making routine visits to correctional homes in the State, facilitate legal aid to marginalized inmates in associate with State Legal Services Authorities, and design strategic litigation interventions to be filed in the Supreme Court of India and Gauhati High Court focusing on issues related to prison reforms. You can find out more about the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_munMtBuOY4g2oi6hduQCxpHBmwBm2aC/view?usp=share_link

Write to Abantee Dutta, Director, Studio Nilima with your CV and Statement of Purpose (1000 words), at [email protected] by November 15, 2022. And we would really appreciate if you spread the word to someone who you think might be interested in applying!

We look forward to hearing from you.

Conceptualised by Mr. Nilay Dutta, this edited volume brings together the divergent voices and offers new perspectives on the conflicts of the region and its transformation. Copies of the books are available at Bhabani Books (ARB Road, Panbazar & City Centre Mall, Guwahati).

It will be available on Amazon shorty. We will keep you posted.

It brings us immense joy to present “Making Peace Mutually: Perspectives from Assam” in collaboration with Bhabani Books.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved Nilay Dutta, President, Studio Nilima on Saturday, 18 September, 2021 at Coorg in Karnataka.

His wisdom and mentorship was the anchor that guided our work. We shall continue celebrating his life and many memories, and strive towards fulfilling his vision for the organisation.

We are inviting submissions for Nilima: A Journal of Law and Policy, January 2022 which will focus on bringing together ideas, thoughts, and research on imagining a post pandemic development framework for Assam, through an interdisciplinary lens.

Send us your abstracts (150-200 words) of proposed articles for consideration to Abantee Dutta at [email protected] with a copy to [email protected] by September 15, 2021.

The last date for submitting the complete paper (5000-6000 words) for review is October 30, 2021.

Reach out to us for more information.

Commemorating the lives of those who came before us, we bring to you the 8th edition of Nilima: A Journal of Law and Policy, themed ‘Recalling our Past: The Lived History of the Gauhati High Court’. This edition traces the history of the development of law in Assam, by reminiscing the lives and work of the distinguished luminaries of the legal fraternity from the State, who have built the legacy of the justice delivery system of the region through their invaluable contribution.

Editor: Mr. Justice Brojendra Prasad Katakey, Former Judge, Gauhati High Court

Volume-Editor: Ms. Madhusmita Bora

Link:http://www.studionilima.com/pdf/RecallingOurPast.pdf

At Studio Nilima, through our efforts we have tried to highlight the lack of adequate health facilities in the correctional spaces of Assam. Read Anubhab Atreya’s discussion with Nisha Susan of The Third Eye on public health in the correctional spaces of Assam.

Link: https://thethirdeyeportal.in/body/when-you-get-incarcerated-you-lose-your-personal-liberty-but-not-your-right-to-health/

The major purpose of correctional homes is not only to detain the offenders but also to provide them with proper rehabilitation and make them ready to be reintegrated into the society...

Today we feature Pushpanjali Medhi, Researcher at Studio Nilima. She started off as a 'Student Ambassador' in 2016.

Her work here, with correctional spaces has contributed immensely to her understanding on how systemic violence works to further oppression, and connecting theory, or disconnecting 'learned theory', from everyday reality.

In people behind the scenes, today we have Anubhab Atreya Project Associate at Studio Nilima.

It is his dream that the work being done at Studio Nilima will help to carry the voices of the grassroots into the policy process of the State and inspire other similar spontaneous interventions. “The process to ensure this happens,” he says “is tremendously challenging but equally rewarding and that is what keeps me motivated every day”.