Thank you Thakuria for the news report and the heartwarming pictures.
I must acknowledge that I was impressed by the
bravery displayed by Guahati journalists in
hoisting the Indian flag and parading on the
streets "--- holding the banners reading
'Uphold the dignity of the National flag.' They
also chanted slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai and
Vande Mataram. " in the face of threats by
insurgents prohibiting it. Goes to show Oxomiya
journalists are no push-overs as it relates to
demonstrating their Indian dependency and moral
superiority. Chicken-hearted Oxomiyas have a
real role model to look up to now.
On an aside, is "Joi Ai Oxom" not chanted in
Assam public events any more? This is just out of
curiosity. I realize that could be considered
inappropriate by authorities on an Indian
independence day celebration.
I will be looking forward to seeing such acts of
bravery from your ranks repeated in days to come
in analyzing forthrightly, pin-pointing and
helping find solutions to the many woes of Assam;
including the insurgencies, immigration,
governance in general, corruption, floods,
education, health-care, infrastructure -- I can
go on and on.
I hope your resounding victory over oppression
yesterday will now fuel a renewed zeal and infuse
a sense of purpose to take on the REAL problems
of Assam until the next 15th of August at the
very least.
Best.
cm :-)
PS: Please convey my best regards to Dhiren-da if
you speak to him. I am afraid I have been a big
disappointment to him on these matters; since he
was a favorite teacher and mentor and is a
well-wisher and long time family friend to me and
my family.
At 5:51 AM -0700 8/15/07, Nava Thakuria wrote:
Dear Mahanta,
It is for your reading,
Nava Thakuria,
Guwahati, India
Journalists celebrates ID defying militants' diktat
By Nava Thakuria
Journalists of Asom (Assam) have once again come
out to defy the militant's diktat and assembled
in press club to hoist the National flag. The
attendants also include hundreds other senior
citizens, social activists and youths took out a
procession in the streets of Guwahati chanting
the slogans related to India's Independence Day.
Mentionable that for a section of the armed
outfits of the Northeast it has become a
ritual to impose a ban on the celebration of the
Independence Day (and the Republic Day). As
India was preparing to observe 61st Independence
Day (ID), four banned armed groups namely the
Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), Manipur
People's Liberation Front (MPLF), Tripura
Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF) and the United
Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had called
upon the people of the region to 'boycott and
prevent the celebration in any manner' as a
'mark of solidarity against Indian colonial
occupation and repression'. In a joint
statement, issued on August 10, the outfits also
imposed a general strike throughout the region
starting the midnight of August 14.
"Yet another year has recorded the unrelenting
national liberation struggles in the Region
gaining the upper hand on the one hand and the
failure of one-sided 'peace talks' as a means
for conflict resolution on the other. This has
convincingly established the fact that the
national liberation struggles should be
consolidated, strengthened and intensified while
the fragmentation of the Region on exclusive
ethnic lines should consciously give way to a
new process of inclusive unity based on
interdependent coexistence as determined by the
Region's reality," the statement said.
It also added, "So far, India's all out effort
has failed, and is doomed to fail, to suppress
our national struggles because they have no
justification whatsoever. Ours is a just war to
liberate the entire peoples of the Region from
India's colonial occupation while India's war
against us is an unjust war to prolong their
colonial rule. History has always been on the
side of just wars in defeating unjust wars. Ours
will be no exception. Time and unrelenting
struggles will bear testimony to our victory."
The statement ended with the appeal to the
people 'to once again display their solidarity
against India, the common enemy, by making the
Boycott and General Strike a complete success'.
It also mentioned about the first wave of flood
that washed away many parts of Northeast saying,
"In view of the devastating floods in Assam and
Kamotapur (part of North Bengal and West Assam),
we make a special appeal to the entire people of
the Region to stand by the flood affected
fraternal people."
Not only they dictated to boycott the
Independence Day, but also stepped up violence
in Asom. The explosions and shootings in
different places had already snatched away the
lives of nearly 40 people of the State on the
eve of the auspicious Day. Other hundred were
wounded in the incidents. Most of the victims
were identified as the migrant labourers from
Northern India. The police blamed ULFA and its
ally Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front
(KLNLF) for the handiworks.
Meanwhile, a dawn to dusk Asom Bandh was also
observed in protest against the killing of
common people in the State. Called by Purvottar
Hindustani Sanmilan, Bhojpuri Yuva Chatra
Parishad, Bihari Yuva Manch and Chamber of
Commerce, the 12 hours Bandh passed off
peacefully on August 14. The ULFA militants
received international media headlines, while
killing nearly hundred people in the first month
of the year on the eve of the Republic Day
(January 26).
But the violence and the diktat of militants
could not deter the people of Northeast in
general and the journalists in particular to
come forward to celebrate the Day. The
journalist and citizens of Asom gathered in
Guwahati Press Club premises to mark the 61st
anniversary of Indian Independence Day. Noted
litterateur Nirupama Borgohain unfurled the
Tri-colour amidst an impressive gathering.
Hoisting the flag, Ms Borgohain underlined the
significance of Independence Day celebrations in
today's context and she called upon the young
generations to emulate the ideals upheld by the
freedom fighters. Earlier the veteran journalist
Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty led the rituals to
pay tributes to the martyrs of the freedom
movement, who faced all sorts of torture of the
colonial rulers to make the country free.
The participants also carried out a procession
through the main streets of Guwahati holding the
banners reading 'Uphold the dignity of the
National flag.' They also chanted slogans like
Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram. Meanwhile,
residents of various parts of Asom including
Guwahati also demonstrated their great zeal in
upholding the cause espoused by the freedom
fighters of the country on the occasion of the
61st Indian Independence Day. They had
organized community celebrations at their
respective localities with great enthusiasm and
hoisted the national Tri-colour atop their
houses.
Mentionable that 16 senior journalists and
columnists had earlier appealed to the people of
the State to come out to defy the militants
diktat and hoist the National Tricolour on the
Day atop their houses and also to organize
community celebrations in their respective
localities'. In a press statement they argued
that 'the people of the State have every right
to celebrate the Day, as we have inherited the
spirit of the freedom fighters who had made
immense sacrifices and a good number of whom,
like Kushal Konwar and Kanaklata, had even laid
down their lives to free the country from the
clutches of colonial rulers'.
Signed by Nirupama Borgohain (Sahitya Academy
awardee columnist), Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah
(former President, Editors Guild of India),
Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty (former editor of
Dainik Asom) with Bhupen Bargohain, Ajit
Patowary, Rupam Baruah, Ranen Kumar Goswami,
Hiten Mahanta, Sushanta Talukdar, Girindra Kumar
Karjee, Mukul Kalita, Dhanjit Kakoti, N.
Thakuria, Sabita Lahkar, Ratna Bharali Talukdar,
Pramod Kalita, the statement also asserted that
the Independence Day this time had added
significance as it coincides with the birth
centenary celebrations of martyr Bhagat Singh.
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