[Assam] Fw: [asom] Nehru's letter

[Himendra Thakur]

Dear Shantikam,

Your response will lead others to a positive direction. 

Incidently, I missed the original "excerpts of the letters of the former Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru published in" the Assam Tribune "on October 8 and 9" --- will it be possible to send this to me ? I'll be obliged if anyone can send it to me.

With love to everybody,
Himendra

PS: By the way, since you liked my dramas, I must confide (and confess) to you that I wrote the first drama in my life in 1951 after reading a question-answer statement by Jawaharlal Nehru in the Parliament. Due to inexperience of young age, I did not complete the drama at that time. After eleven years, after reading another outburst of Nehru to a question by Ram Manohar Lohia in 1962 on "PC Mohalnabis Repot", I completed that drama. The revised English version of this drama "The Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi" was translated as "bapuki tasvir" into Hindi and staged on January 2-6, 2003 at Kamani Auditoriunm in New Delhi. Do you think someone will be able to dig up the original 1951 question-answer statement by Jawaharlal Nehru in the Parliament ? That will help me rewrite drama "The Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi" and send it to the publishers.

We must learn from history. If we do not, it will repeat.

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: shantikam hazarika 
  To: assamonline at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:49 PM
  Subject: [asom] Nehru's letter


  I think the letter to the editor published last friday was in very poor taste. If there was a real editor in the Assam tribune, I am sure it would not have gone through, but unfortunately both the local English dailies are now edited by the owners themselves and there standards have fallen like anything.

  It is pointless to dig out a 60 year old letter to prove a point. The fact that the problem persists unabated even 43 years after Nehru's death shows that the post Nehru era also has been equally guilty, if there is guilt to be ascribed to.

  The letter to the editor was, what shakespeare would have said, 'the most unkindest cut'.

  Shantikam hazarika

  From: AMRIT NEHRU <nehruamrit at yahoo.com>
  To: assamonline at yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [asom] Nehru's letter - Assam Tribuene October 20, 2006
  Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT)
  >I am a Kashmiri Pandit happily married to a wonderful Assamese.
  >
  >All my life I have opposed Nehru and his policies but never heard that my community of Kashmiri Pandits suffered because of what Nehru did in Assam.Nehru made huge blunders for which we are still paying the price.He was simply an autocrat who perpetuated his dynastic rule over gullible Indians.Your own leaders from Assam have been and continue to be torch bearers of that political game called Nehru Dynasty LAGEE RAHOO.
  >
  >We were thrown out of Kashmir simply for being Hindus.The same way your own Assamese Muslim who became President of India & opened up Assam borders so that his fellow Bangladeshi Muslims could one day reduce you to minority.That day is not too far,by the way.He was the same President whose first job on becoming President of India was to establish a mosque in-side of Rashpati Bhawan.
  >
  >I hope you show some sensitivity towards your fellow Indians. Do not curse whole community for the mistakes of a few.
  >Thanks
  >Dr Amrit Nehru.
  >
  >
  >
  >----- Original Message ----
  >From: Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200 at yahoo.com>
  >To: assamonline at yahoogroups.com
  >Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:47:46 AM
  >Subject: [asom] Nehru's letter - Assam Tribuene October 20, 2006
  >
  >Guwahati, Friday, October 20, 2006
  >LETTERS
  >---------------------------------
  >Nehru's letter
  >Sir,- This has reference to the excerpts of the letters of the former Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru published in your esteemed daily on October 8 and 9. Indeed, starting from Nehru to his daughter Indira Gandhi, and then her son Rajiv Gandhi - all three generations worked against the welfare of the State of Asom. In fact, it is because of the Nehru clan that I feel no sympathy for the ousted Kashmiri Pandit population of Kashmir. Their exodus from the Valley in the later part of the 20th century seems to be the result of the curse of Mother Asom. Nehru planned to reduce the native Asomiya into a minority in their homeland. But, before he could achieve that, his community was thrown out of Kashmir by the militant outfits.- Yours etc., Siddharth Barua, MRD Road, Guwahati


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