[Assam] 'I Am An Assamese, A Bengali And A Sylheti. What Exactly Am I?' Anurag Rudra'a write up appeared Tehelka

[Alpana B. Sarangapani]

My turn now.:) 

I liked Mohan's writing on the topic very much.

Seems Anurag has a broad / open mind about things.. Though it's often confusing to him, he seems to find himself belonging to all three communities, which I find very commendable. As C'da and mm-da said, he is a human being first and needs to be positive about everything.
Or, say 33 percent of each ethnicity and let the others fight over to decide what would that remaining 1 percent would make him.
Have an open mind like that will lead him to have fair, unbiased and positive attitude towards everything in life.
My very best wishes to Anurag, what a beautiful and fitting name for his personality (from what I could guess from his topic of writing).





------Original Message------
From: Sushanta Kar
To: assam at assamnet.org
Cc: anuragakarony at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Assam]	'I Am An Assamese, A Bengali And A Sylheti. What Exactly Am I?' Anurag Rudra'a write up appeared Tehelka
Sent: Jun 15, 2010 10:58 AM

Well said Chanddanda! I hope young Anurag will be motivated enough with these words. Sushanta On 15 June 2010 19:22, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote: > That is a believable, poignant story, Sushanta. Thanks for sharing. > > The indignities that young Anurag had to endure, hopefully, were not in > vain and his account, > hopefully would help turn things for the better. > > Many of us in this forum have worn different shoes. And we too wore the > ones that > Anurag had worn,at times of being a minority, foreign, alien etc. and at > times of  a dominant > group wearing the halo of being an indigenous. It has helped us become > fuller, better people. > That said, I do realize that those of us in the US or other counties with a > rule of law have not, would not > ( except as rare exceptions) have to undergo some of the more blatant and > overt acts > of discrimination, bullying or even physical assaults that someone in > Anurag's shoes might have. > That is where the rule-of-law plays a critical role, one that is absent in > Indian governance, not > just Assam's, part of the dysfunctional state of desi-demokrasy as I call > it. > > I agree with MM's advice: To be positive and ASSERTIVE. He has no reason to > be > confused about his many identities, much less be apologetic. Long ago, I > learned > to choose my first and foremost identity to be the human one. My many other > identities > fall into place, without conflict and without apologies! > > Pass this on to Anurag, if you can. I wish him all the best. > > c-da > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Sushanta Kar wrote: > >  Dear >> Friends, >> You will find this write up something interesting. Anurag is a B.A student >> of Cotton College. By this time he has earned a well reputation as a poet >> in >> English. Here he has raised a few question on the identity crisis of the >> sylhetis of the state: >> >> http://www.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=hub190610personalhistories.asp >> >> Sushanta Kar >>_________________________
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