[Assam] For your reading sir
Chan Mahanta
cmahanta at charter.net
Wed Aug 15 06:55:49 PDT 2007
Thank you Thakuria for the news report and the heartwarming pictures.
I must acknowledge that I was impressed by the
bravery displayed by Guahati journalists in
hoisting the Indian flag and parading on the
streets "--- holding the banners reading
'Uphold the dignity of the National flag.' They
also chanted slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai and
Vande Mataram. " in the face of threats by
insurgents prohibiting it. Goes to show Oxomiya
journalists are no push-overs as it relates to
demonstrating their Indian dependency and moral
superiority. Chicken-hearted Oxomiyas have a
real role model to look up to now.
On an aside, is "Joi Ai Oxom" not chanted in
Assam public events any more? This is just out of
curiosity. I realize that could be considered
inappropriate by authorities on an Indian
independence day celebration.
I will be looking forward to seeing such acts of
bravery from your ranks repeated in days to come
in analyzing forthrightly, pin-pointing and
helping find solutions to the many woes of Assam;
including the insurgencies, immigration,
governance in general, corruption, floods,
education, health-care, infrastructure -- I can
go on and on.
I hope your resounding victory over oppression
yesterday will now fuel a renewed zeal and infuse
a sense of purpose to take on the REAL problems
of Assam until the next 15th of August at the
very least.
Best.
cm :-)
PS: Please convey my best regards to Dhiren-da if
you speak to him. I am afraid I have been a big
disappointment to him on these matters; since he
was a favorite teacher and mentor and is a
well-wisher and long time family friend to me and
my family.
At 5:51 AM -0700 8/15/07, Nava Thakuria wrote:
>Dear Mahanta,
>It is for your reading,
>Nava Thakuria,
>Guwahati, India
>
>Journalists celebrates ID defying militants' diktat
>
>By Nava Thakuria
>
>Journalists of Asom (Assam) have once again come
>out to defy the militant's diktat and assembled
>in press club to hoist the National flag. The
>attendants also include hundreds other senior
>citizens, social activists and youths took out a
>procession in the streets of Guwahati chanting
>the slogans related to India's Independence Day.
>Mentionable that for a section of the armed
>outfits of the Northeast it has become a
>ritual to impose a ban on the celebration of the
>Independence Day (and the Republic Day). As
>India was preparing to observe 61st Independence
>Day (ID), four banned armed groups namely the
>Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), Manipur
>People's Liberation Front (MPLF), Tripura
>Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF) and the United
>Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had called
>upon the people of the region to 'boycott and
>prevent the celebration in any manner' as a
>'mark of solidarity against Indian colonial
>occupation and repression'. In a joint
>statement, issued on August 10, the outfits also
>imposed a general strike throughout the region
>starting the midnight of August 14.
>"Yet another year has recorded the unrelenting
>national liberation struggles in the Region
>gaining the upper hand on the one hand and the
>failure of one-sided 'peace talks' as a means
>for conflict resolution on the other. This has
>convincingly established the fact that the
>national liberation struggles should be
>consolidated, strengthened and intensified while
>the fragmentation of the Region on exclusive
>ethnic lines should consciously give way to a
>new process of inclusive unity based on
>interdependent coexistence as determined by the
>Region's reality," the statement said.
>It also added, "So far, India's all out effort
>has failed, and is doomed to fail, to suppress
>our national struggles because they have no
>justification whatsoever. Ours is a just war to
>liberate the entire peoples of the Region from
>India's colonial occupation while India's war
>against us is an unjust war to prolong their
>colonial rule. History has always been on the
>side of just wars in defeating unjust wars. Ours
>will be no exception. Time and unrelenting
>struggles will bear testimony to our victory."
>The statement ended with the appeal to the
>people 'to once again display their solidarity
>against India, the common enemy, by making the
>Boycott and General Strike a complete success'.
>It also mentioned about the first wave of flood
>that washed away many parts of Northeast saying,
>"In view of the devastating floods in Assam and
>Kamotapur (part of North Bengal and West Assam),
>we make a special appeal to the entire people of
>the Region to stand by the flood affected
>fraternal people."
>Not only they dictated to boycott the
>Independence Day, but also stepped up violence
>in Asom. The explosions and shootings in
>different places had already snatched away the
>lives of nearly 40 people of the State on the
>eve of the auspicious Day. Other hundred were
>wounded in the incidents. Most of the victims
>were identified as the migrant labourers from
>Northern India. The police blamed ULFA and its
>ally Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front
>(KLNLF) for the handiworks.
>Meanwhile, a dawn to dusk Asom Bandh was also
>observed in protest against the killing of
>common people in the State. Called by Purvottar
>Hindustani Sanmilan, Bhojpuri Yuva Chatra
>Parishad, Bihari Yuva Manch and Chamber of
>Commerce, the 12 hours Bandh passed off
>peacefully on August 14. The ULFA militants
>received international media headlines, while
>killing nearly hundred people in the first month
>of the year on the eve of the Republic Day
>(January 26).
>But the violence and the diktat of militants
>could not deter the people of Northeast in
>general and the journalists in particular to
>come forward to celebrate the Day. The
>journalist and citizens of Asom gathered in
>Guwahati Press Club premises to mark the 61st
>anniversary of Indian Independence Day. Noted
>litterateur Nirupama Borgohain unfurled the
>Tri-colour amidst an impressive gathering.
>Hoisting the flag, Ms Borgohain underlined the
>significance of Independence Day celebrations in
>today's context and she called upon the young
>generations to emulate the ideals upheld by the
>freedom fighters. Earlier the veteran journalist
>Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty led the rituals to
>pay tributes to the martyrs of the freedom
>movement, who faced all sorts of torture of the
>colonial rulers to make the country free.
>The participants also carried out a procession
>through the main streets of Guwahati holding the
>banners reading 'Uphold the dignity of the
>National flag.' They also chanted slogans like
>Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram. Meanwhile,
>residents of various parts of Asom including
>Guwahati also demonstrated their great zeal in
>upholding the cause espoused by the freedom
>fighters of the country on the occasion of the
>61st Indian Independence Day. They had
>organized community celebrations at their
>respective localities with great enthusiasm and
>hoisted the national Tri-colour atop their
>houses.
>Mentionable that 16 senior journalists and
>columnists had earlier appealed to the people of
>the State to come out to defy the militants
>diktat and hoist the National Tricolour on the
>Day atop their houses and also to organize
>community celebrations in their respective
>localities'. In a press statement they argued
>that 'the people of the State have every right
>to celebrate the Day, as we have inherited the
>spirit of the freedom fighters who had made
>immense sacrifices and a good number of whom,
>like Kushal Konwar and Kanaklata, had even laid
>down their lives to free the country from the
>clutches of colonial rulers'.
>Signed by Nirupama Borgohain (Sahitya Academy
>awardee columnist), Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah
>(former President, Editors Guild of India),
>Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty (former editor of
>Dainik Asom) with Bhupen Bargohain, Ajit
>Patowary, Rupam Baruah, Ranen Kumar Goswami,
>Hiten Mahanta, Sushanta Talukdar, Girindra Kumar
>Karjee, Mukul Kalita, Dhanjit Kakoti, N.
>Thakuria, Sabita Lahkar, Ratna Bharali Talukdar,
>Pramod Kalita, the statement also asserted that
>the Independence Day this time had added
>significance as it coincides with the birth
>centenary celebrations of martyr Bhagat Singh.
>
>
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