I think the
letter to the editor published last friday was in very poor taste. If there
was a real editor in the Assam tribune, I am sure it would not have gone
through, but unfortunately both the local English dailies are now edited by
the owners themselves and there standards have fallen like
anything.
It is pointless to dig out a 60 year old letter to prove a point. The fact
that the problem persists unabated even 43 years after Nehru's death shows
that the post Nehru era also has been equally guilty, if there is guilt to be
ascribed to.
The letter to the editor was, what shakespeare would have said, 'the most
unkindest cut'.
Shantikam hazarika
From:
AMRIT NEHRU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [asom] Nehru's letter -
Assam Tribuene October 20, 2006
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:52:33
-0700 (PDT)
>I am a Kashmiri Pandit happily married to a wonderful
Assamese.
>
>All my life I have opposed Nehru and his policies but
never heard that my community of Kashmiri Pandits suffered because of what
Nehru did in Assam.Nehru made huge blunders for which we are still paying the
price.He was simply an autocrat who perpetuated his dynastic rule over
gullible Indians.Your own leaders from Assam have been and continue to be
torch bearers of that political game called Nehru Dynasty LAGEE
RAHOO.
>
>We were thrown out of Kashmir simply for being
Hindus.The same way your own Assamese Muslim who became President of India
& opened up Assam borders so that his fellow Bangladeshi Muslims could one
day reduce you to minority.That day is not too far,by the way.He was the same
President whose first job on becoming President of India was to establish a
mosque in-side of Rashpati Bhawan.
>
>I hope you show some
sensitivity towards your fellow Indians. Do not curse whole community for the
mistakes of a few.
>Thanks
>Dr Amrit
Nehru.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From:
Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:
[email protected]
>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:47:46
AM
>Subject: [asom] Nehru's letter - Assam Tribuene October 20,
2006
>
>Guwahati, Friday, October 20, 2006
>LETTERS
>---------------------------------
>Nehru’s
letter
Sir, This has reference to the excerpts of the letters of the former Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru published in your esteemed daily on October 8 and 9. Indeed, starting from Nehru to his daughter Indira Gandhi, and then her son Rajiv Gandhi all three generations worked against the welfare of the State of Asom. In fact, it is because of the Nehru clan that I feel no sympathy for the ousted Kashmiri Pandit population of Kashmir. Their exodus from the Valley in the later part of the 20th century seems to be the result of the curse of Mother Asom. Nehru planned to reduce the native Asomiya into a minority in their homeland. But, before he could achieve that, his community was thrown out of Kashmir by the militant outfits. Yours etc., Siddharth Barua, MRD Road, Guwahati
