[Assam] Post Frontier Blues

[Chan Mahanta]

Dear Baruah:

Read the book on one sitting. It was an almost unprecedented 
accomplishment for me, since I left college. I found it extremely 
informative, as always.  I was particularly impressed by your 
realistic analysis of the unsustainable  two-tiered citizenship, of 
the ethnic homeland model and the proposal of for citizenship of 
India as well as a state. Most of all, for me,  it is the first 
comprehensive attempt at finding an attainable and sustainable 
resolution of these indigenous/immigrant conflicts that have so riven 
Assam and the other 'states' around it. In that it stands out from 
the xenophobic cacophony that has dominated the discourse not only in 
Assam but has even spilled over to assamnet.

Big question however is if the powers that be will pay any heed?

Best.

m