The contributor to Eastern Panorama from Guwahati, Nava Thakuria has been awarded with the first media fellowship on refugee issues sponsored by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES). The Fellowship theme is “The Chins of Myanmar: Refugee Life in a Distant Neighbour”, with a focus on Protection and Durable Solutions for the Chin ethnic group from Western Myanmar, which lives in challenging conditions in the Northeast as well as in New Delhi.

The awardee Mr. Thakuria has written extensively on issues related to Burma (Myanmar). Thakuria is a regular contributor to many acclaimed newspaper and portals based in New Delhi, Dhaka, Hong Kong, Seoul, London and California and his special areas of interest include socio-political developments in Northeast India with Burma, Bhutan and Bangladesh