forwarded from Ratne group ------------------------------- From: nalin behari Dev Choudhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Aug 2, 2005 2:56 am Subject: Javed Akhtar's attack on Assamese woman
Dear Assamese Friends, Please see the photo gallery (on front page) on the following daily of 2nd Aug, 05 (today). It is really untolerable and protest must be there against such remarks and to change the view of Assam to the people of India. It is also very shameful that the leading media of Assam are not giving coverage (or rather importance) to such insult to Assamese people. Go to the link: http://www.northeasttribune.com/index.htm Being an Assamese or from Assam, u must go thro' this news and also forward to others from Assam. If one is unable to visit the site, see the text below. The photo is not attached here. The news goes : "Members of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) burning the effigy of noted lyricist Javed Akhtar in Guwahati on Monday. Akhtar came under fire after his alleged remark on Assamese women in a private TV channel on July 19, "Assamese women are known for frequently changing husbands and can be purchased in any city of the country". - from Dilip Datta, IIT Kanpur, India Please pass on to others also. Nalin ---------------------------------- From: "Bikram M. Baruah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Aug 7, 2005 7:28am Subject: Re: [ratne] Javed Akhtar's attack on Assamese women Raiz, Lets face up to the reality. Read the following article in TOI. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msi d-1193772,curpg-1.cms These are the poor uneducated yough girls who are becoming victims of the shameful greeds of their own guandians - parents and ealder relatives. I personally know atleast one case where one from a village near Rangia in Kamrup district sold his own daughter to a Bihari 'ferriwalla' for Rs10000. Later, the poor girl somehow escaped and took selter in her uncle's house in Guwahati. Anyway, I believe it is more important to realize the ground reality rather than to investigate what somebody really said in a live TV show. And, as these shameful incidents are really occuring, we need to be done something urgently. Regards, Bikram M. Baruah --------------------------------------- From: Nironkush Rick Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:51pm Subject: Re: [ratne] Javed Akhtar's attack on Assamese woman and Rick Right, let's try and get this into perspective. Have the unconfirmed remarks of Javed Akhtar made the Oxomiya any more minority than they are today? Would they make more Bodos militants? Perhaps worsen the immigration? No, but having a border fence and tighter controls would have helped. My point is, let us decide a reaction to an incident on the basis of the actual impact of the matter not on face-value excitement. I would support a case against India's cenral government for loss of earnings as well as prestige to the state of Assam due to not treating Assam's peoples (plural intended) with the situation-specific sensitivity they deserve. Where is the Indo-Bangla border fence for example? Why do police forces have special powers with regard to shooting or arresting that mainland states do not? After all, our people can't be THAT bad. The problems Mr Pathak describes are - in my belief - because the Hindi lobby and northeast India's south-cum-southeast Asian combine of intricately diverse culture do not get along too well, perhaps because of the former's arrogance, and, also because Assam hasn't had charismatic leaders for a while. India's look-east policy is too little, too late. Anyway. I agree with everything about Assam's fact-of-the-matter issues Mr Pathak writes. However, I'm hoping Mr Pathak is not suggesting all this we spend valuable legal time and expense on some supposed silly remarks. Freedom of expression ought to be defined as liberally as possible (this can have its own down-sides, but is still more dignified). May I leave everyone with some of the many thoughts I ponder on: I believe Bodo's, so also Rabha's, Hajongs, etc are Assamese by way of being Oxombaxi since time immemorial (or so). Assam is a mini-India inside India. This heterogeneity was not understood by local and central political leaders after Indian independence. Moreover plains Assamese have seemingly exuded the arrogance that they are the rightful Assamese and the others are perhaps fringe communities. Most of the disturbances (Bodo and similar others) actually boil down to that factor. The mother of a Bodo friend specially made some Bodo rice liquor (wrongly termed rice beer) for me during my last trip to India. The quality of the produce would beat the best Japanese Niigata Sake anyday, although I hold a tremendous respect for Niigata's Sake brewers. But unlike Japan, you would find these folks embarassed rather than proud to talk about this. Do have a think about this. With regard to Assam, there are many real issues to fight for on many fronts: cultural, political, etc. Given so much on our plate, I'll still hold on to the belief this Javed Akhtar matter - whether true or false - is trivial and we should continue to focus on loftier goals. Sincere rgds, Rick. --------------------------------- From: Nironkush Rick Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:32pm Subject: Re: [ratne] Javed Akhtar's attack on Assamese woman Excuse the verbosity, couldn't resist responding... :) --- Anup Konwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that a long relationships in Britain or in Australia last about > couple of months and if lucky some years. People move on because they either > get bored or find that they are incompatible. The passion of getting into a > relationship is high without the commitment and compassion to make it work, > makes your observation correct about English women, probably! I used to believe that. But it appears the problem has always been everywhere. The only difference about it in India is that dissatisfaction takes the form of hush-hush infidelity or mere tolerance (rather than love) hidden inside a happy-family pretence. On the other side of the coin, there are many long lasting relationships in the West too; of course they don't make the gossip. > That you have got a RICK inbetween a fantastic name like Nironkush..Das. That > you live like a Roman in Rome suffices the existence. But certain principals > in way of life, and in a culture dont change whereever you go.Japanese, > Russians, French dont speak english or change their names to suit the global > community and maintain their identity. That we were ruled by British cant > change the mass thinking we Indian or Assamese people have as a culture. > People may vary depending upon the school of thought or geography they belong > to. Actually, Rick is both a Sanskrit and a Western name; it was in fact the first name I was given, not something I took up after settling abroad. Anyway, my name's spelt the way it is. The reason I won't change the rest of my name to Nironkux Dax has to do more with laziness rather than embarassment. My contention is not at such cases, nor at those who choose to have non-Assamese names. My contenion is with that section of Assamese people who taint the pronunciation of Assamese names to render a Sankritised or Hindiised twang when introducing themselves abroad and seem to do so out of embarassment. It is one thing if I choose make my name Hindi sounding like Akshat, but it is another matter altogether if I'm named Lasit and I am embarassed to pronounce it that way. Miguel Alvarez does not have to become Michael Alvers to live in England. Embarassment to transliterate correctly is the issue at hand. > So, if there is a reaction to Javed's comments, which I am following through > this forum, there is a reason for it and is justified. I'm not sure if it's justified but somehow we have all contributed to a nice blog. I do pretty much agree with the rest of the matter you wrote, so won't blog any more. Now it's time _I_ moved on! :) - Rick ----------------------------- From: "Dilip Datta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:40am Subject: Reg mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Since I registered in [EMAIL PROTECTED], I m receiving unlimited bogus mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - in which I never registered. Probably u people r also facing such problems. Already I hav seen the writing of Saswati and Tridip. Go through the following remedy: No need to think how to unsubscribe it, simply block the add from entering eny mail from it to your account. When u login into yahoo, u will find "Mail Options" on the top right-most corner of your yahoo page. Click there and then go to "Block Addresses". Here u can put the email ids from which u don't want to receive any mail. Hope that it will serve your purpose. -Dilip Datta Kanpur
