Apart from things like literacy rate n all, what is really a matter of grave concern is the picture of Assam in particular and North-East as a whole,painted by the masses of so-called developed cities and metros of India. According to them,Assam is a land where JUNGLE rule still prevails,each and every household in the interior corners of the state is having atleast one underground family member who is fighting against the state and people from these places eat everything on the planet.This is really very disgusting at this age when media in any form virtually rules every thing in the society and we are performing in this regard very poorly.So, i feel that we should take some stern action in this direction and our media should promote our State in a better way at the outset so that we also become a name to reckon with on the national scene with all our good qualities,resources and our heritage et.all.
debajyoti samudra gupta kashyap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mrinal talukdar is right! It is not correct to presume that everything is wrong here on the banks of the brahmaputra. mrinal has already pointed at some of the numerous positive things that are happening here. what is lacking is a bold civil society which wakes up to push aside a handful of self-appointed saviours of assam who have negatively influenced the assamese mindset and woven myths that only drag all of us backwards instead of contributing towards emancipation of this wonderful ethnic mix called assamese. people in assam are today willing to say a big No to the bandh culture. people want to climb the ladder of human development in all aspects (it is also true that assam ranks 15th among the indian states in terms of male literacy and 13th in terms of female literacy? do you know life expectancy at birth of assamese males is just 58 years 350 days against all-india average of 63 years 317 days and biar's 65 years 240 days? and that the average assam woman lives only 60 years 317 days against all-india average of 66 years 332 days, and bihar's 64 years 288 days? it is also true that people like moni manik gogoi, who gave up ulfa (but did not become a sulfa) on finding that it was a stupid thing to take up arms, and has in the past six or seven years transformed the economy of dozens of villages near naharkatiya.) what assam needs is a program that can change the mindset of the people. also required is a new generation of leaders wo are literate, forward-looking, committed, ready to sacrifice and also face criticism, and believes that the assamese too is a global citizen and not a nador bhekuli. please come and do something, if you feel like, on these areas -- areas of human development and also on areas of leadership development. Samudra Gupta Kashyap/Guwahati On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 Mrinal Talukdar wrote : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/2791
