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My peronal feeling about Assam and its Unnayan
At the very outset I want to say that whatever I am writing here is my personal opinion. I am not trying to defer you guys or discourage but only putting my thoughts forward. I have seen how everyone is activly discussing about the problems and probable solutions or what can we do stying far away from our homeland. Its really appreciable. I salute all of you. But few things always disturb my heart whenever I think of my land of beauty. I have seen how everyone is worried about the stupid statement made by some foolish Rashul Haq. Not only this statement, in last 30 years' of history of Assam says the same thing. Everyone inside or outside Assam are worried about the existence of Assamese. There are many movements passed away or still going on only for this reason(ULFA, AASU). But what is the result we see today?.. Is Assam not losing value to the world than we had 30 years back?..Why are we so much worried? Is the worriness giving us anything or instead carrying away something?.. I have been staying out of Assam for around 8 years and have met guys from all around India. But I haven't seen a single guy who is worried about their own state.. May be I am wrong but this is my personal experience...People from other parts of India are selfish and they think of themselves only, not their village or state.. But still every place is progressing in a faster pace than Assam.. I have seen many communities in Orkut on the topics of the developement of Assam like this.. In fact the largest community from Assam, Axom amaar maatribhoomi states like this "This community is created to work as a platform for all the assamese people leaving apart from each other to communicate,share ideas,views & thoughts and work together in anyway for the growth of the great Assamese community.." I have not seen a community for Karnataka or Punjab development!!!.. I don't say the efforts made by all these communities are in vain.. But I feel we are somewhere making mess of everything.. Everyone is thinking of the society and emotionally worried about the fall of Assam .. I love my place more than anything, but I have seen the mentality of the local people there..I am really frustrated.. I don't expect much from the mass there..I feel almost every corner of Assam is almost rotten.. There is no ray of hope!!!..To hell with the politicians, service men, teachers businessman.. All are corrupted to some extend except a few...Specially I don't give a damn to the politicians anywhere in India whenever I see/hear about a corruption or stupidity.. And I strongly wish the corruption in politics and bureaucracy increase more and more day by day..And the day come soon when the no of people frustrated of the system increases from few crore today to 100% and the system crashes(I am damn sure that Indian political system will crash in next 30 years max!!!) You may be thinking why am I writing all these??..Am I a traitor of Assam? The answer is definitely no..I am also emotional (probably more than average) genetically.. I myself created communities for Assam with all these thoughts and actively got involved in various activities for my community few(two) years back!!!! What I feel with my experiences: 1. We should forget about the 90% bad people in Assam(20% politicians students leaders etc, 30% bangaldeshis, 10% trying to take advantage of Bangladeshis, 10 % terrorists, 10% with corrupted mindset....)..Its impossible to correct them.. We shouldn't worry about the Bangaladeshis as more and more terrorists acts are conducted by them as in Hyderabad recently..I wish they conduct more and more terrorists activities and whole India realize how they are growing dangerous..So I hope this will be taken care of very soon... So we only need to concentrate the rest 10% capable people..We should really back up anyone who is really showing something against the stream there in Assam... Someone who is trying to stand tall in the society.. The very few who is working honestly and keep the energy to fight against the corruption in the personal day to day life.. The few talented people trying to get a break anywhere in this world... I know its just a theory, and I myself not very sure to probably implement it.. But I want to say Lets save the endangered no of good people left! 2. We should think about our individual growth..If we think that we have that much strength to change a society, I think we should put that energy into our personal growth.. I personally really don't want anymore revolution in Assam.. I want more Bhupen Hazarika(whom every assamese hates but respected by the outside world).. I want more Arnab Goswami's(Editor in Chief of TimesNow).. More Zubeen Garg's ...More capable assamese staying inside or outside Assam..in technical fields, arts, business ...I will be proud of you if you can be the Mayor of the city where you are now staying, then the CM of Assam,because I feel this is the an Assamese will come to everyone's eye..Don't have to worry about the existence! But no more social revolution please!!! 3. End of the day how broadminded we may be, we are never able to be united!.. We fight among each other in a small associations(my personal experiences).. We are always in conflict of any great ideas....We are very good critics(myself is no exception).. We can find out 100 faults in a person who is having only one good capabilty!!!... We are satisfied with winning small competitions.... We want to be popular very soon, by doing something great to the society.. But it's not going to help to make us proud of our society!.. I feel we should be as selfish as we could .. Take our whole time for individual growth only..And show to the world how talented we are!!! At last please don't keep any offensive thought for the rude writing... I am not a good writer, not very sure how much I am able to express my feelings... I am not saying to stop your campaigns, but please don't make it a mess or don't put anymore efforts if you feel everything is waste! I will be the happiest person if anyhting good can be done by a small group of netizen to our small beautiful state!!!! And I am here to help you whenever needed!!!! Thanks!!..Thanks for reading such a long essay(?), puttin your valuable time! By : Abhijit Borah Bangalore |
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Defining 'Assamese' A consensus on the definition of ‘Assamese people’ continues to elude us even after 22 years of the signing of the Assam Accord. While the need for such a definition may seem perplexing to many, the fact is that the peculiar situation in Assam — where the indigenous populace had been under constant threat from infiltrators from Bangladesh for decades — warranted such a necessity. It is under these circumstances that the Assam Accord sought to provide constitutional safeguards to the ‘Assamese people.’ However, the search for the ‘Assamese’ definition created a raging controversy last year, with divided opinions as to who constitute the ‘Assamese.’ The result is that the issue remains non-conclusive till date. One would also wonder why the State Government did not take up the matter all these years. The need of the hour, however, is that all the parties, i.e., the different indigenous communities and civil society organisations, sit together with the State Government to hammer out an all-acceptable solution. The prevailing situation – given the unabated influx from across the border – certainly brooks no delay. Since the definition of ‘Assamese’ is central to the provision meant for giving constitutional safeguards to the indigenous people whose existence is under threat from infiltration, all of us must treat the matter in the urgency it deserves. One possible way could be to change the word ‘Assamese’ with ‘Indigenous’, as many of the indigenous communities have openly expressed their reservations – whatever may be the reasons — about being covered under the term ‘Assamese.’ Such a move, therefore, deserves consideration to end the impasse. This, however, leaves out one crucial aspect, that is, what would be the position of the people of non-Assamese (coming from other States) origin who have made Assam their homeland long back, assimilating in the process with the greater Assamese society. Considering the historical process of assimilation that has been a novel feature of the Assamese society, some organisations have suggested to have a cut-off year on the basis of the National Register of Citizens of 1951. According to this view, persons having their names in the NRC-1951 and their descendants should be treated as ‘Assamese’ or ‘Indigenous’ people so that they can also come under the ambit of the constitutional safeguards. The sad irony of the debate over the definition of ‘Assamese’, however, is that it has laid bare the growing rift in the greater Assamese society, more so when the testing times demanded that we put up a united front in the face of the grave danger posed by the unabated cross-border influx. Courtesy : Assam tribune |
