[Assam] Who is the Sentinel of Freedom?

[xourov pathok]

--- SANDIP DUTTA <pseude at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Xourov,
> 
> Thanks for your email. Your observation about the
> neutrality of a language is very much in coherence
> with today's needs. For eg. most of us here are
> equally at home with Hindi & English in addition to
> our mother tongues (Oxomiya, Bodo, Bangla etc.)
> 
> Its time the others took notice too :-).
> 

let sleeping dogs lie.  the problems in assam are no
longer tied to language.

imposing languages on peoples are never a good idea.
bengali was imposed on the assamese in the 19th 
century. assamese was imposed in the entire assam in 
20th century, partly as a revenge.  nothing good came 
off either of them.  in the 21st century we should 
keep away from prescribing languages for peoples.

it might be best to let people use the language they 
prefer.  instead of making rules and laws, peoples and

governments should use the language that is the most
convenient.

as for the mother tongues, it is probably best to let
people expand and stretch their own languages at will.
 
the bodos, the karbis and the dimasas should take 
their languages where they never were before.  and 
they should share it with others.  the sylhetis
in barak valley should be able to discover and enrich
their own siloti, and in their own newly discovered 
siloti-nagari hand.

the problems today have nothing to do with language.
it has been fashionable to blame the "assamese" for 
all ills in the region.  look at manipur-nagaland.  
assam-nagaland.  look at hiren gohain's article.

rajiv gandhi famously said that only 15% of government

spending reach the common man.  do you have a plan to 
curb the struggle for an access to the remaining 85%? 

in the times of terrible unemployment, do you have a 
plan to stop the struggle for government jobs via 
sc/st status?

blaming language today is living in the past.

x


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