Hi C'da:
>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 in
Won't s/he be a hypocrite if s/he chants 'Joi Ai Oxom' and pulls that 'Ai Oxom'
back from attaining prosperity at the same time?
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble
like a blade of grass”
- Lakshmana
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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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