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>So, the tension continues between, on the one hand, nationalistic
assertions seeking to distance the land and its people from India, perhaps even
strive and attain >sovereignty; and on the other hand, the reluctance by the
intellectual establishment (which also feeds separatist ideologies) to accept
any modification of an unwieldy >and unnecessarily complicated alphabet where
some of the letters are identified by numbers, not sounds, because these sounds
are exactly alike."
BTW Prabhakars this simplistic statement
is wrong.
To add to the confusion, the fact is that
the word ASOM is not being proposed by the Nationalist or the separatist group.
It was rather proposed by Mr Chandra Prasad Saikia whom we cannot call a
Nationalist or separatist. In fact AGP, if we can call them Nationalists,
actually are opposing this usage ASOM. Recently Atul Bora, among others,
wrote letters to GOA opposing the usage of ASOM. ULFA does not seem
to have the time to care. So who actually are supporting the use of the
word ASOM? That is the great Assamese confusion to add to the problems of Assam.
Assam is running wild without any
leaders.
Would the supporters of ASOM kindly come
out of the closet?
Thanks
Rajen Barua
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