Ryze,
Here the words from Sri Pani Ram Das at the age of 92 on the sad demise of
Arun Hazarika- his most old friend:-
A tribute to Arun Hazarika
Just now I come to know from my son Jayanta that Arun Hazarika is no more in
the mortal world and has left for the infinite. Instantly my mind rushed to the
golden youthful days of 1946,when we often used to sit together in the jolly
company of jubilant and energetic stars of the progressive society og Guwahati
of that time at the Khadi shop ( Amalay ) at Panbazar.All of them were tall
pillars like Deba Kanta Barooah,PrincipalHemBarua,HareswarGoswami,Biwa
Goswami,Uttam Tahbildar,SubodhHazarika,ArunHazarika,Lakhyadhar Chowdhuri,
sometimes Biren Bhattacharjya and others.We also sometimes sat in the residence
of Deba Kanta Barooah at Jorpukhuri.
At that time muslim immigrants at the instance of the Muslim League forcibly
occupied the swhole of Mangaldai chapari and created terror in the whole
sub-division. In the phase of such a serious ituation,we organized a public
meeting of 25 thousand strength at Punia on 25th September to resist the
invader which was attended by Deba Kanta Baruah and Arun Hazarika on our
invitation. Both of them delivered inspiring speeches calling whole the
terrified audience not to loose heart but to resist boldly.There speech highly
inspired the fear stricken people which enabled them to organized the historic
Borbori defence campus with 500 courageous youth which lasted for four months
from November to February 1947,when at late they were cowed down. During the
struggle, we met varieties of arrangements of arms to combat miscreants,such as
hand made guns,javelin lathis etc.Rohini Kumar Choudhuri them MP supplied 1000
javelin,Subodh Hazarika with Barin Ghosh of Calcutta personally
visited the camp and gave 6 pistols and Biharis from Bhuragaon ( Nowgong )were
ready with lathis for any eventualities>More over from our side we kept several
hand made guns ready for the occasion. Fearing all about this,Deba Kanta
Barooah and Hem Barua and all other requested me to take a hand made gun to
Guwahati for demonstration. Accordingly, I took Manipad Bania and Ramani Bania,
both expert in gun making to Guwahati for demonstration of the art. All of the
Guwahatians gathered at the residence of Deba Kanta Barooah to enjoy the
successful shooting at a banana plant which was uprooted in a moment, so
powerful was the gun.It is worth mention that the beautiful would be wife Anu
of the famous orator Hem Barua was also present at the shooting site
It is not at all possible for me to forget that noble graph of patriots who
have all now left us- Arun Hazarika being the last to depart and leaving me
lament alone. I pay my deepest regard to Arun Hazarika.
Pani Ram Das
Freedom Fighter (92 years)
Kalaigaon Sevashram
10 Jan 2008
Dr.Bikash Kumar Das
Bangalore
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