Questions about Assam ??
Guys, i don't know what questions or answers you have faced about your homeland Assam but these are the ones I have faced till now....
1. Hey, is assam so green??
2. how is the situation there now? (you guys know what situation they are asking about)
3. Heard that Assamese girls are very beautiful,is it true ?? (felt proud though after hearing this!!)
4. Hey, do you guys everyday travel by Tata sumos to go through hills to your homes??
5. Are there no industries in Assam ??
6. Last but not the least, Hey, please bring tea and bamboo artifacts when you comeback from Assam this time.Also leather jackets, Naga shawls and naga floral wrappers and what not????
Guys, What are or were your experiences in Hyderabad????I would like to know what were your responses then also !!
Presenting Assam to all ...but how ???
You guys are right......Dispur,Prafulla mahanta, ULFA, Rhino at Kaziranga National Park, Tea gardens, Hills, tribal chinki faces,black magic.............these are what people mostly know of Assam....about the Kamakhya temple by a few of them....otherwise it is very shocking !!! Specially the 600 year old Ahom lineage (the amazing Saraighator ran), Baishnavaite movement, (xatras) all are unknown and I donot see much being done on this front from our tourism department as well compared to the efforts that I see here whenever I visit historical places here.........Don't you agree guys ?? how can we project Assam BETTER... any ideas?? one of my Assamese friend keeps on sending snaps of scenaries of assam (of Rang ghar, brahmaputra, xapi, Xatras etc) to his colleagues who were amazed and two of them even visited Assam with him !!
Our appreciations to you, Tridip .... hope many of us will try to emulate you !! I usually keep a guide book with illustrations of Assamese scenaries, monument, clothings and ornaments with me whenever I travel in South India cause with my look they recognise me as from NORTH eAST (ALIEN) or as a Nepali and then those questions are asked about assam ....so I try to present them with the guide book about assam if both of us have enough time to have a look at them .... and strangely they say that their perception is totally wrong about Assam..( maybe due to the half clad Naga dancers with spears being sent to delhi to represent Assam for the republic day parades during the 1950's and 1960's)...Our Muga dresses have however got some very well deserved recognition now .... I still feel it is a very unique product with great marketable potential.....people perceive from what they view about that place....so visuability and the way of presentation will destine how assam will be looked at by foreigners.....Guys, any more views on these front??
course of action to be taken is not that hard !!
we may think what we can offer???......what we can offer is our simple minded devotion and dedication towards the job or work we do......we people from NorthEast already have a very old label of being very lazy.... we need to change that through our work ethics that we too can work in a smart way and slog when required....I was happy once when our CEO told in one of our annual meetings that we may have to hire some more dedicated and hardworking people like Rahman from the Northeast.... sorry if I sound bragging about myself, but that is what I intended with my work by putting 120% of my effort to dilute the tag that we as well as Oriyans have as lazy fellows..I knew I have to put in more to prove my worth as an outsider......we have it in us and we can change the way people perceive us.....blame games will do us no favour!!!......Nehru's -----"my heart goes with the people of assam" in 1962 may have created the anger factor which could have taken shape of the terrorism problem (with fire from the writings of our so called intellectuals during 1970's) whose repurcussions we are facing even now from the late 1970's ....but the road ahead is to try starting afresh and more vigorously.....we just have to believe in "I too can contribute towards a good name for my community"....or shall we await a Nagasaki like catastrophe to awaken our jatyabhimaan???
phaat mela Luit...moi tumaar bukute lukaao
Recently met VUDA (Vizaag urban development authority) Chairman, and he wanted me to be his guide from Siliguri to Darjeeling as they are in my home state!!!..."phaat mela Luit...moi tumaar bukute lukaao".....However he asked me about Prafulla Mahanta's present status as he is close to TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu and about possible security measures that he needs to take while touring Assam........I was just thinking about the present fate of an assamese who made an impact so early in his life and how he could have guided us and what advice I could pass on to a visitor to assam so that he can return unharmed.....(98% I can gurantee him safe return but that 2% doubt still made me worried thinking about what if.... )
Need for guidance from the Assamese worthy Sons
Rajen da.....yes, I have concern only....tried but couldnot get a project to go ahead with the Ministry OF Tourism, Assam during my MBA period about re-creation of ancient Ahom settings in the historical monuments of Sivasagar like manning of Rang Ghar, Kareng Ghar etc by people in ancient ahom dresses as the Swargadeo's,Borgohain's, senapatis, darbaries,sentries,etc as a way of depicting the past to the foreigners in LIVE environment......this I proposed to do free of cost ...instead I got the go ahead in Maharashtra for recreation of ancient Maratha settings with fully paid stipends at project cost of 15 lakhs where as my project estimate for Assam was just 2 lakhs ....I donot know whether my project proposal was even looked at by Minister Neog Madam then.... I HAD FELT VERY HURT THEN....But you know how long you will feel bad about something which is YOUR VERY OWN !! My Scholarship transfer during my schooldays took 6 months and my passport took more than 1 year since I was adamnt not to pay any bribe to get those ....got low marks in practicals for correcting a professor in front of the whole class... Was frustrated one time with all the wrongs that was going on in and around me ....Thankfully I was lucky to channelize those frustration into some creative aspects rather than going the normal assamese way of taking the easy route.... conditions indeed divert youths towards doing something drastic which they may think or as portrayed by others to them as heroism towards changing the systems they are in, but its where your judgement counts ! I too wanted to change the system once but now I know how wrong I could have gone then if I had acted insane then !! I was lucky then to have some wise men show the right path .... that's why I FEEL the need of more ideal assamese men to come forward with their views and suggestions to guide the youth into prosperity......or else misguided they may ruin their as well as our next generations future....correct me, if i am wrong !!!
I am really worried now !!
Coz i am an assamese
coz i am a Muslim
and I am in Hyderabad where bomb blasts were triggered by Bangladeshi Terrorists!!
But whom to put the blame on???
...on a government in my state which keeps foreigners as their vote bank??
...on the economic backwardness of my state due to some step motherly treatment meted out to us by the Central government which initially led to creation of a regionalistic separatist organization which lost it focus and is ready to join whoever helps it without any ideology ??
...on My religion ISLAM (which stands for peace but has been interpreted by illeterate maulvis and maulanas living in medieval ages as only belonging to believer in all mighty who can be revered with only one name "Allah" .....and others who believe on all mighty with other name are non believers and termed as Kafirs and Jehad (holy war) is what that is taught in Madrassas to kids (Govt sleeps on it because of vote bank politics)......so much into politics that first reason behind electing two of the educated men who was President and Now Vice President only because they are muslim.......
.... something has to change or else I still feel Assam and assamese are going towards disastrous future not far away from now...about which i had already viewed my concern in the following topic (Tridip might remember)
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5840841&tid=2525227359590497879
Our identity is in real danger if no remedial measure is not taken and we assamese just sleep over it thinking i am safe and my family is safe and that disaster is atleast far away at least till my generation is over.......
Bangladeshis have first got their Voter cards, then got employment and slowly getting MLA's in government....don't you see a similarity with British's entry into India???
on a lighter note...Please keep a track of me in newspapers whether i was picked on suspicion or some muslim organizations issues a fatwa for denigrating my Religion (after reading this post)!!!
time is ticking........surely towards a disaster
Guys we had lot of discussions over this issue in one of the community in Orkut regarding this..........Worst thing is we have not thought over it since we are not directly getting infected by this slow submarine kind of activity that is happening.......(thinking perhaps that this might miss our generation or will hit only our grand children onwards)........Maybe this might be due to the fallout of the Assam andolan ('83) which had scared all of us Assamese from uniting together again for a cause which is for the good for all of us Assamese !!!
But time is ticking.........towards a disaster......we know it even if we want to ignore it !!!
I will be glad if you guys also go through these discussions ( without any conclusion offcourse----blame it on Assamese thick blood----lot of discussions, no resolution after all the heated words..................Radha Gobind baruah, Tarun Ram Phukans might be cursing us surely from Heaven for our state of affairs............they chased away the british to let us(their partymen unfortunately) slowly bring Bangladeshis and let them take a vice like grip over assam----while visiting Hojai once when i was a kid i remember asking my father whether i am in Assam or outside)
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jan/19guest.htm
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5840841&tid=2524410081005173353&na=4&nst=1&nid=5840841-2524410081005173353-2525105745451753858
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5840841&tid=2525227359590497879
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5840841&tid=2551934247918979017&na=3&nst=11&nid=5840841-2551934247918979017-2551960883145006511
the problem is that those illegal migrants have already received their legalized papers
like ration card, voter card etc (need i say from whom??) and those who have to fight cases, they are being represented by muslim lawyers of their erstwhile fellow Sylhet district linkage (have you noticed a large number of lawyers from South Assam in Guwahati itself)
if there is a fire in their house, they will take those cards first and then would try to recover anything else....during elections in Nagaon district, you will find lesser rickshawwalla's, thelawala's, egg sellers in other districts because whether assamese vote or not, they will surely vote in Assam for that black mark in their fingers and the evidence in Electoral rolls..........
to segregate the three set of Muslims (Assamese muslim, Muslim in Assam who speak sylhet-bengali and bangladeshi migrant) is not easier cause though you can try sorting it by asking a Ali/Ahmed/Rahman to pronounce some assamese words, the one with the pronounced bengali accent may say he is from erstwhile Sylhet district and did not go to East Pakistan (bangladesh) in partition........
One thing is for sure, the Britishers had a solid masterplan when they mooted the proposal of divide bengal in 1905......103 years have passed.....yet that particular divide is still troubling the Indians !!!!
Let's try this way out, if we define assamese on the following criteria what will happen?
you are an assamese if:
1)you are born in assam and
2)you have permanent residence in Assam
could we put a third condition that
3)you speak assamese
if we keep it that way then south assam will lose lot of assamese population.
What about bodos, karbis,and some other tribals who speak only their languages???what about the tea garden labourers??could we keep them out of assamese population?
The legal migrants to assam from Bihar,West bengal, northestern states and rest of India whether be it in ONGC, oIL, NRL, Central govt jobs or in small contract works, as barbers, or businesses /moneylending etc if taken together along with the local brain drain with assamese going out and working outside itself and assamese students outside assam, all of these put together infact will make assamese in assam a bit of endangered species !!!
Isn't it alarming?if you take it as the assamese guy working in an MNC outside assam to be of superior brain, then actually how many good assamese brains are working for assam in assam now AT THIS VERY PRESENT MOMENT???
permanent residence in Assam bit is also dwindling as people are shifting base to metros,buying properties there and selling off their properties in Assam.
Isn't it a scary scenario about the Assamese identity and its future existence ??
muhya mantri kAjmal Shaikh'ar suvessa lobo !!
Asomistan's chief minister Kajmal Shaikh will send his bihu greetings in pure bangla.....bihu dances in lungi and burkha....no pithas..only batasha....minorities ( THE ERSTWHILE ASSAMESE POPULATION) will though celebrate it with their old pomp and geity as shown only on NE TV, but the kAjmal TV will focus only the majorities islamic conference that happened in Dhaka and pictures of jubilation in parts of nagaon and barpeta on Pakistan's win over India .................. SOUNDS FUNNY ISN'T IT?? but slowly if you look at the demographic scenario of assam that day maynot be far off (even thoough it may not be so early as within the next 20 years)......we assamese will get to know of it when we are out of our slumbers then.....the present political scenario(last election results), the attack on immigrants( except on the bangladeshis) by our angry but foreign (Pa****ani)aided-bretherns and the resulting emigration and the resulting inflow of more bangladeshis as rickshawalla, thelawala, daily labour and all possible small jobs which assamese youth feel as demeaning to their social status will surely change the present assam towards a bangla majority status in Assam in near future.....Tridip, I can see it happening......
Who need to assimilize---- they or we ???
Bangladeshis are in fact helping the Assamese...it's not the other way round !! They are earning their livelihood by servicing the Assamese, doing those works which we Assamese find demeaning !! there is no need for assimilization ....they have already taken up their places...work they have, ration cards and voter ID cards they have been provided ( they are very particular about their voting rights "no matter what happens vote for Hand" ). I have seen some places when rickshawwallas, thelawalas, koniwalas just vanish during election periods and suddenly they reappear with the voting mark in their nails.....as a assimilization process what we assamese can do is to learn hardworking abilities from these Bangladeshis.....( I was always amazed comparing the bangladeshi labourers with our assamese labourers....the bangladeshi one would be toiling from 9am till 5pm wheres our own guy would be lighting his bidis, asking for tea and lunch all the time and if possible take a nap in between as it is too hot to work!!). The MEANINGLESS Adda culture of assamese youth when I compare with the addas that I have been PRIVILEDGED to be a part of with a few bangali dadas I meet in Guwahati made me understand where we are heading and what could have been!! Though here I would like to appreciate the work the assamese guys have done in Hyderabad through their meaningful addas....If we can assimilate the hardworking ability from the bangladeshis we may take something positive.....that's ONLY what I can see assamese benefiting or gaining from our now very own Bangladeshi Brethrens !!! I may seem hard hitting, but we should not expect the kind of assimilation from them as we got from our Marwari brethrens.....who have made literary contributions in assamese apart from their various contributions in various fields..(specially the Agarwala clan who are much more assamese than perhaps some of us who are assamese simply by being born in assam)
Time is ticking towards MORE horror in Assam !!
Read this in World Affairs Board forum and got worried of my worst fears coming true !!!
India: The Islamization of the Northeast
April 20, 2007 21 08 GMT
Pakistan's ISI, in cooperation with Bangladesh's Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), appears to be investing a considerable amount of resources in solidifying India's militant corridor. There are growing indications that these two agencies are working clandestinely in Bangladesh to bring all the northeast-based insurgent outfits and jihadist elements under one umbrella. The ISI has facilitated cooperation between ULFA and other northeastern militant outfits with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, Islamist militant groups in Kashmir, Islamist groups in Bangladesh and a growing number of al Qaeda-linked jihadist groups operating in the region.
ULFA's growing links with Bangladeshi Islamists and jihadist elements in the area are increasingly coming to light. The April 9 attack timed with Singh's visit to Assam marked the group's first-ever suicide bombing, a tactic that was pioneered by the Tigers (a non-Islamist, majority Hindu group) and has been frequently employed by Islamist militants. Prior to the attack, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa warned that New Delhi's offer for unconditional peace talks was not acceptable, and that that ULFA cadres "have reached such a stage they would strap bombs on their chest and attack." ULFA's adoption of suicide bombing looks to be the result of the group's increased Islamization caused by collusion with Islamist outfits in the region. The bomber in the April 9 suicide attack was Ainul Ali, a Muslim. Indian security sources revealed that ULFA did not have many Muslim cadres in its fold in the past, but the increasing flow of Bangladeshi refugees across the border has given the group more -- and more capable -- members willing to sacrifice their lives for the group's cause with nudging from the ISI.
What separates us (NR assamese) and bangladeshis
while conducting some interviews for 8 posts we had to take almost 7 outsiders of AP and only one local guy that too in a low pay job......there one of my colleague (from A.P.) JOKINGLY told, you guys are eating up employment for localites here........
I thought over it and found some similarity with one problem we are facing in assam
and then I thought why not check up with others in this community.......
we at assam are unhappy with the mess that Bangladeshis have created.......
What have we assamese here in Hyderabad has given back to the telugus ......
surely we (not only assamese but outsiders) are taking up jobs which otherwise localites would have been getting.....though this opportunity we are getting because of the Darwins theory "only the fitter survives"
are we contributing in anyway to assimilate with them......
have we tried learning telugu ..... (directly from our heart) and start talking with the locals in Telugu......(frankly speaking, i learned okkati to padi so that i could count and could decipher what people are talking about me, but could not have a learn initiating proper communication in pure telugu)
have we brought any aspect of telugu culture to us in assam......or are we happy being assamese and with my own culture.....
I would want to know about you guy's opinions as well as exceptions that you have done or faced in this regard.......
It hurts but.............
Tridip, i know you r hurt, but shouldn't we all thank Robin Hibu for atleast trying to create awareness for some Northeast youngsters about how to behave outside of Northeast!!
We had just spoken thousands of words, wasted energies but what have we done to change the image that we Northeast people have over the years outside assam???ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS and hence I am thanking Mr. Hibu for his initiative.
Tridip, i know it hurts, but it is true. Just compare with how outsiders behave in Assam (maybe out of fear) and how we behave outside of Northeast. Our previous generation and to some extent our present generation have not done anything worthwhile to change the perception that people have about us. In fact it has been denigrated to the extent that outsiders are not keen to rent their houses to Northeast youngsters (reasons that i have been unfortunate to hear are, we party loud without thinking a small bit about our neighbours or surroundings, litter rooms like pigs, runaway when it s time to pay rents and less said is better as it will hurt a true proud assamese youngster).
Solutions??what are the solutions to change (no, just destroy) that image.We needed some initiative to try change how our next generations behave outside Assam and here I think Mr. Hibu's initiative is praiseworthy.....People like Radha Govinda Baruah and Ambika Giri Roychoudhary's would have tried this kind of initiatives as we the present Assamese bread are shamelessly busy in our professional careers (myself included) and we donot have any time to do anything for the betterment of our next generation.
What we can hope is that the new generation will heed to Mr.Hibu's suggestions and will create some favourable perception about the Northeastern people from the outsiders with their gentle and thoughtful behaviour. If they do so, I know our generation is in good hands !!
Solutions ??
Solutions----there should be, but needs very courageous effort behind it.....one must be prepared to take all that names that would come back to you if one really cares to change the present scenario...I could not, so what i did was alienate from them (must be a cowardly act though as per my conscience). How could you change a pattern of behaviour??...social scientists can guide us better, I feel...Mr. Hibu's initiative is praiseworthy in my opinion though it may hurt us initially...but if we introspect what encouraged him was the sitiuation he himself had faced in Delhi and that provoked him to take up this intiative....(as he said according to a report in times of india newspaper today)......what he is getting back is very normal in northeastern standard (demonstrations and rallys are being planned in Delhi against his effort by our Great Student unions).
To change something you need someone to take the initiative to teach all about what is wrong and whats needed to set it right in a logical way...Mr. Hibu has done exactly that.What we can do is to support him and slowly build upon a social engineering of the way to change our youth towards an acceptable behaviour pattern.Actually a career awareness drive and a reading culture might be helpful towards the upcoming youth to stay focussed.But being a part of a bengali adda culture(had those with some elderly 30's bengali guys during my stay in Ghy), i too am a big fan of it specially the hotly debated discussions on the political scenario,sports, cultural topics and some very constructive debates which helped me a lot to shore up my overall knowledge. I still feel we can guide our next generation towards a different vibrant identity than what we got from our previous generations.I still am in awe of the respect the Bengalis, Tamilians and Keralites get and how they are still keeping it intact.
These are frankly what i thought about the whole scenario and as possible solutions regarding this burning issue of today which we are facing as north eastern outsiders!
Tridip.....I thought Manjit posted the link to forward us opinions of more than 60 assamese youngsters from Delhi about an issue involving assamese youth he came across as you had requisitoned some more opinions about projection of Northeast people by others and he might have felt it relevant in this regard (though the projection is put across by an Assamese guy about a living style followed in Delhi by some of our bretherns).....for a discussion you need to know the opinions (whether relevent or irrevelent is for the wise men to decide)........I had also discussed but found it irrevalent a common problem that we face (specially the ladies face quiet embarrassingly) and then i thought to pull myself out of it............the issue was the amount of slang word that are being used in front of everyone in public places or buses by the assamese youth without scent respect to the elderly genlemen and specially in front of ladies......luckily outsiders donot know what the youngsters is yelling out as otherwise it would have been shameful towards the projection of the assamese society as a cultured one.......I donot want to discuss it here but I have felt it bad for our generation whenever i have came across it and thought could I change it......Labhita must be agreeing with me why i backed out instead of going forward and trying to change behaviour of these youngsters though they are my fellow bretherens......Lets appreciae the views and opinions that are poured in by the members first......then we will discuss the probable solutions....I apologize if I am misguiding the relevance of the discussion of this thread......
Changing a pattern of behaviour is not going to be achieved overnight as people have their own perceptions about their understanding of their lifestyles as good for them and no body has a right to interfere on that !! However, repurcussions are what others feel or are made to feel because of actions taken in that mentality ...
the topic of the discussion was linked with Mr Robin Hibu's publication of the Brochure with guidelines for "what to do and what not" for the Northeastern youngsters who have come to New Delhi with the purpose of education ......
It pointed out some things which previous batches of Northeastern youngsters had done and had landed in trouble !!
It also pointed out some things which previous batches of Northeastern youngsters did not do and had landed in trouble !!
Why are we treated as aliens or foreigners outside of northeast???........this is because of the Mongoloid face cut or features that most of us from the northeast have which is very distinguishable for the others.......
Now the brochure pointed things on.....
about food habits and Loud Partying due to which neighbours complain mostly about northeastern youth.........
Northeastern Ladies facing molestation when scantily dressed while going through lonely road/ bylanes
The brochure gave 100 as the emergency number in case of urgent help and also advised them (must be the ladies) to carry pepper spray
Now as assamese community here in Hyderabad.....let us discuss and finalize .......
1) Are these happening with Assamese youth??
2) Are these happening with Assamese youth in Hyderabad??
3) Can we track all the complaints that are targeted on assamese and make note ( the problem is even if a crime is committed by a non assamese northeastern guy we get the blame due to the regional as well as facial proximity)
4) How to stop further occurrence of this???
5) after step 4) Can we better ourselves to set some precedents for our coming generations???
( Our motto is......no matter what others follow
what we think is not right in us, we ourselves need to set it right for us
Shyam Kanu....I told in my previous post about the need of social scientists because it is not that easy to convince a guy to change what he things it is right.....You had a live example here itself.......I would still like to requisition some feedbacks from social scientists if we have any among the 260 members that we have in this community to come up with how to change certain pattern of behaviors and how to convince others....
Let me present some views which are totally personal views of mine as i have experienced and analyzed till now by staying 22 years in Assam and 5 years outside of it in some more prosperous states than my homeland.......
Assam has all the resources, educated and skilled Assamese people, labour, funds, foreigners who want to invest, suitable zones where there could be industries and many a catalyst towards economic development. But the synergie is missing to bind these all and result in economic prosperity due to the reasons like
first and foremost, the law and order situation which demotivates any entrepreneurial vision an average assamese or a foreigner might come up with as you will not like to earn Rs 100 in the day to give half of it ( or more ) to a group of guys who comes in the night with guns......
Secondly, we donot have much success stories in entrepreneurship to take guidance from. I may sound too offensive, but we have never appreciated the Assamese Marwari community to fall back on and learn entrepreneurial ability.......Dhirubhai Ambani had once said to an IIM professor while sending some of his employees to IIM's....Mujhe coatwale manager nahi sahiye, mujhe pakke baniye's sahiye is training mei".....and we have never taken help from them......
Third reason was, yes it was, communication problem ( road and telecommunication, during my recent visit to Assam I can proudly say that it has improved by many bounds
)
Fourth one is a typical one which even i am baffled to exclaim here......For Assamese youth his career choices are......Doctor...Engineer, Government job or else you are doomed !! Assamese youth who are usually well dressed ( compare the dressing sense of avaerage rural andhra guys with ours) feel it shameful or donot have the patience to stay in their shops.....the meaningless Adda's of Assamese youth in the evenings which usually ends up in bars and brawls .....(let me clarify---I am saying these for 60% of the assamese youth and about NOT ALL assamese youth)
during a course in IIE (Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship) I still remember the director saying that the fund in terms of loans for entreprenurial development that is ready for assamese unemployed youth (As part of funds available for Northeast---largest beneficery being Naga and Manipuri Women who are more entrepreneurship inclined) is lying idle due to almost nil publicity about it as well as very low interest level in assamese youth.....and those who have availed has not repaid to encourage those financial institutions like Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi) as well as commercial banks, etc and very few have availed the technical as well as managerial trainings that are being provided at very nominal fees to the employed youth by institutions like North Eastern Industrial and Technical Consultancy Organization (NEITCO), National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training (NISIET) [till it was merged with the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE)] and the North Eastern Industrial Consultants Ltd (NECON) etc.....
Education wise we have the IIT ( I would be glad to know the total assamese students percentage their who have come out of it), Central Universities, Engineering Colleges, Medical Colleges (I have to say that these have indeed given some bright products who are working in reputed companies all over the world),
What we perhaps lack are good management institutes for entrepreneurial development and instilling entrepreneurship to the Assamese youth...
and lot more which will come out of the coffin if we analyze in a systematic way.....
So .....all these (As Pankaj wanted i have kept out from blaming the central govt and local politicians out of this discussion) are the Negatives that in my opinion has left Assam under-developed and made all of us in this community to go out of our homeland in search of better education and opportunities.....
As a remedial measure what could we think upon if we want to in our own little capacities as the Assamese Youth who want to change the present scenario??
???
........I think we need to bring to notice of our next generations about the success stories of Assamese people who have taken up entrepreneurship and have been successful so that they can think about being successful entrepreneurs themselves in future......
........Sharing of entrepreneurial ideas ( many in this community have replied in the poll that they want to go back to assam in their mid-40's) in the get togethers that we have of assamese people here from time to time ......Perhaps with exposure here (I mean out side of Assam ) to best practices, technology and managerial knowhow some of us might join up based upon those initial discussions in those get togethers and subsequent meetings and start some companies or institutions in Assam and generate employment in Assam for our next generation......
.........Bringing to notice of as much as possible about the opportunities that Assam offers.....(During seminars, meetings and conferences, flights etc we meet so many of the who's who of corporate India as well as foreigners who are keen to invest their money)......we never know how a small lead can work to something very big........for that we need to be aware ourselves about what are the incentives and policies that Assam government has to offer to incline big companies to bring up facilities there........(Obviously the incentive has to be more to tackle the law and order situation there) ........
--------I do hope some more institutes like Private Engineering Colleges, Medical Colleges and management institutes will be coming up at various noise free areas that Assam provides.....bringing more opportunities to assamese youth to get quality education and instilling entrepreneurship.....
--------I still feel Assam still needs a Chandra Babu Naidu type of push before inviting foreign companies to Assam.....
He first focussed development of Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijaywada as marketable and trendy places like Bangalore for the foreigners, earmarked places for big companies to put up their facilities and improved communication and infrastructure in and around these and then he went on world tour to invite foreigners to invest and made them jump up at the opportunities that he gave them as incentives......I remember Mr. Naidu saying to a congregation of foreigners in a CII Partnership Summit" in his broken english ...
...."you have come, go to next room, my minister help you sign and you get money back within next year, please don't say no"
In two days that summit had brought 24,000 crore Foreign investment to AP....that was in 2003.
Hope we have such a visionary leader in Assam to bring similar prosperity !! (am I dreaming ?? :-)
(though Naidu finally lost it for neglecting the rural areas completely and ironically the beneficient Hyderabadi middle class betraying him by not even going to even vote for him as he had made them used to A/C Comfort)
Manjit and Pankaj,
Let's completely forget about what went wrong and who went wrong....this our more famous thinkers had done in the 1960's and 1970's and precipitated in two movements (one political and the other one based on extremism) which made assam backward by more than 50 years....Lets just forget about those periods, those Thinkers and their motives, about those leaders, and
JUST START AFRESH !!!!
...We have identified some reasons and found one or two solutions.......
Lets find out what are the possible other reasons and any practical solutions that are within our limitations (as non resident assamese at present----our time and resources are all tied up with our present occupations here in Hyderabad) .......
Lets work on it individually, you need not inform any one else about what you did......Just keep the spirit of being proud as an Assamese burning inside you and keep on working towards a significantly better future that we could pass it on to our next generation.......
What I expect is that may some of the members of this community, with their expertise gained here, think of moving home in thier late 30's or 40's to start some entrepreneurial initiative in Assam.......( I had created a Poll which is still available to know how many are interested to go back to assam and till now it is the highest vote getters till now....10 out of 27 wanting to go back Assam in their middle ages). My appreciations and best wishes to Biswajit for his wish to do the same......
If we do not think of starting entrepreneurship after all the educations that we got outside and work experience that we have over these years than its foolhardy to expect others to do it....and its even shameful to blame others if we fail to do so ourselves....its always easy to blame the players for their slow running by watching it on TV in the comfort of home but when you yourself try running in the field under the sun yourself, you know how tough it may be and what is required to improve it....
Lets find out all the Assamese success stories who have succeeded to think and do differently in terms of entrepreneurship and bring them into focus of our new generations .....
I am looking upto more assamese success stories in the thread (Global assamese industrialists) that I had started in this community with that sole purpose only.....let's unearth as much as we could ...I hope everyone will share information about those whom we have missed out till now.....
Lets just start afresh......for the sake of our next generation.....
Hats off to YOU !!
good thought Labhita.....how dearly i missed Assamese people in HR coming forward with these kind of suggestions......I missed a US trip very narrowly on criterias of regional bias as i was an outsider and based on how trustworthy I am to give back in return......then I thought if I were in assam or if I had an Assamese HR guy to put forward my case....your initiative is very praise worthy ....but it's a two way traffic....you put your hands up for the new recruits and the new recruit doing their best to convince that your choice was right.....then we could have more guys here through you ....Salutions AGAIN ....Hats off to your love for fellow assamese !!!
I agree with you.......but let's start afresh....you are trying to help the guys and Please have faith that they will not let you down.....what happened in the past generations, let's just forget about it.....we need to start afresh.....New guys are getting access to new outlook through the usage of internets....they will slowly know what's professionalism is all about that is in the world outside of Assam.....I donot believe there is a professionalism as a culture in Assam----you can give any excuses like bandh, traffic jams etc. etc. for any delay there, as a college student we were just used to the bandh culture).....work ethics wise, they are slowly learning with the various modernized vocational courses(MBA, MCA, etc) they are partaking......(as they involve attending seminars, meeting various people from corporate world, gettng used to making presentations, arranging seminars, etc. etc) ..... I hope you can have faith on the work ethics of the new Assamese youth that are into job market after being gruelled by the MBA or MCA colleges in Assam itself....leave alone those who have had their education from outside Assam.......yes Accent wise, the Assamese or Bengali accent ...you just cannot help !! Otherwise I will vouch for your support to the New Assamese freshers that are in search of employment....., Labhita, Let's start it from our generation....be positive and I wish, you will have some worthy assamese as new recruits for your company doing exceptionally well for you to be proud of your choice in near future !!
What would you do if you become CM of Asom for 5Yr
Lead india Campaign is going on.......so this thought came in my mind.......we have all heard about what is bad in assam....bad in systems in assam......militancy wise....economy wise.....politically................we specially the young generation know about it, right?
So what are our thought processes to correct it.....let this thread bring out some solutions (i will like practical and viable ones).....and probable action plans for implementation (some short term and some long term goals)
Conditions::: I am giving you 5 years of governance......no coalition politics, no pressure for survival)......you are a leader of a popular regional Political party and has the backing of the people.......Now think on the action plans for the following issues::
how to curb militancy in assam?
how to improve education in assam?
how to tackle bangladeshi infiltration?
how to promote tourism,assamese history(ahom lineage and sankari baishnavite movement) and market ethnic goods(eri, muga silk, bamboo crafts,bell metal goods etc.) in assam??
how to bring in industrialization in assam ?
How to revive sick Public Sector Undertakings ?
how to improve health scenario and medical facilities?
How to keep the home Tea and petroleum industry intact and any new areas where assam could get competency?
how to cash in on the sports infrastracture developed after National games?
how to improve the work culture and gradually remove the bandh culture that's prevailing now?
how to bring foreign investors in assam?
how to improve the political scene?
how to develop infrastracture?
how to bring in IT Revolution?
how to improve agriculture in assam?
how to improve the menace of flood and probable action plan for disaster management in case of an impending earthquake if expert geologists predictions are to be believed?
Let us know your action plans..............
I will be glad if this thread brings out at least 5% of the solutions and (who knows) it introduces to us with probably the future CM of Assam in say 2025...
to achieve something, you need to dream or you need to be provoked to dream about it.......Alexander, Napoleon etc conquered all because of their dream........Japan prospered because of the provocation made by the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing....Gandhi was provoked, so he planned, acted towards achieving end to apartheid in south africa and resulted in India gaining independence fighting against the might of the british empire where there used to no sunset prior to that....................
So i thought better we dream of a better assam ....a dream instigates people to think towards it.....so this thread was to just lit up the fire....i know there will be few takers...but still if 5% thought process comes in towards a better assam i will be happy...that's my expectation....certainly not more !!hopefully i will be wronged with indeed some thoughtful posts from some new generation......like our previous generation i don't want to go as failures who could not follow visionary assamese like Navin chadra Bordoloi's,Tarun Ram Phookan's, Gopinath Bordoloi's, RG Borua's,ambikagiri rai chowdhury's......post independence we have surely missed a single prominenet leader......
......Prafulla mahanta would have been, but he daisappointed....Hiteshwar saikia was one.....one who could divide a militant group into two and start a infighting in between must have a great mind...he was busy with the damage control, and had no time to think of development that time in the fiery 90's.
....With the current situation, we strongly require a strong leader......am asking for that son of the soil to announce himself here.......
Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi went to South Africa with the sole purpose of pursuing his career too......circumstances choose him for an abuse( in an unlikely manner) and he became Gandhiji.....There are so many instances of men provoked to choose politics for changes, reforms and social welfare........
it's very easy to neglect if something wrong is going on as you and your family are not being affected....but you never know, you may become a victim of it someday and then you want to change the system and in anger without guidance a youth in pursuit of changing a society is itself a dangerous idea(for the society itself, Ulfa example is from Assam itself)......so i want some positive views and ideas being genarated though this thread to change the present problems assam faces.....(as a guiding light)
As the present situation in Assam .... it is in urgent need of some leaders.....young and educated will be better......
that's why this topic was created......
great suggestion Biswajeet!!!
great suggestion Biswajeet.......
Amitabh da.....would you like to head the discussion on infrastructure development of Assam and tourism promotion......I am ready to be your second in command in tourism promotion.....I have a strange feeling that once the tier one and tier two cities grow beyond their capacity.....assam might get a good chance as an MNC destination (i am not focussing on IT only....sectors like, biotechnological research, Pharma industry etc). Should we prepare for that slowly......
one great advantange could be the weather of Assam ( though Guwahati, Jorhat, Sivasagar are fastly going the same way as Bangalore went pollution wise....Flood are also one negative factor if you think of an SEZ in East Assam ( Could we use these terms......east Assam and west assam, north assam and south assam in the discussions here.....let's start by a new definition of assam which buries a cause of an ages-old divide)......I think our meterologists and environmentalists in this community can offer some solution.......
Biswajeet, in which field you want to put your views across?
I know slowly others will give their thoughts and solutions..we have many here....I will be glad if you
1)talk about the problem.....causes behind it.....
2)a solution to it
3)what may come in the way of implementing your solution as well.....
4) how much do you think it would take to implement....(your estimate....and a practical ground reality related estimate)
.....till 8th March lets know each others core competence ........
i want all of you to let us know about the topic on which you want share your views......( don't think that you should not put accross your view as you have not studied about that .......your views will be judged on the content only.....so it makes a open forum for all of you who think about a brighter future for Assam......
.....So think about it, and let me know on which topic you want to share your views by 8th March, 2008......or should we keep a longer time frame for that?
to improve assam economically we need infrastructure and tourism.....when foreigners come to assam only then they can think of investing in it .....isnt it? to back it up we need normalcy and a working culture without bandhs......incentives in terms of foreign investments in an insurgency ravaged area to lure MNC's......
Assam has not seen what a focus on tourism can do to it's economy?.....but it is always advisible to make the infrastructure ready to comply with the investors demands and even better if we could delight the investor.......if we do hurry and fail it won't help at all......the education sector has to improve to provide resources.....
we do have our indigenious resources...which if we tap well....i can surely say in bold letters that we may propsper beyond our own imagination......
if you want to know...please check this URL:
tourismassam.blogspot.com
i wanted to launch it during bihu but thought this deserves a launch now for this great cause and discussions
so i would like to start the topics as:
1)Infrastructure
2)Tourism
3) Social reform related to unemplyment, bandh culture
4)economics related to assam
5)education
6)cultural affairs
---how to promote goalporiya lokogeets?
....how to promote satriya dance?
....how to promote sualkuchi textile industry, barpeta's bell metal Industry etc, home furnishing industry etc?
--- how to promote movie industry??
should we also look into our own--- tea and petroleum industry as well?
you guys/girls can give your topics as well as any new addition to the topics mentioned above.......TILL 8TH March.....i will extend it if we get results...keeping fingers crossed !!!
i will just give an example,
If a 18years above girl/lady can think of going to her friends wedding located 4 kms away from her home at 11oclock,which is to be solemonised at 1am Muhurta on her own wearing gold jewelry and returns back home safely at 5o'clock in the morning again on her own ...then the area she is in, is under Perfect police force and system.......
....cause parents are sure that no body could harm her when she is leaving for the wedding and her friends parents were sure that no body could harm her when she is returning for her home.........
....no body could harm her feeling for both the set of parents came cause no criminals might like to break rules
...no criminals might like to break rules because fear of police is so scary and the fines are so high and system is so foolproof that if caught their life is ruined.....their is absolutely no way out ......
That's one way of looking into it....sincere policing, severe penalties and a compact system of judiciary is the way of crime prevention.
I donot have much idea about the educational part imparted to constables/ inspectors at police training camps.I believe moral education part has to be given more stress along with meditation classes so that when they become police officers they can tackle issues and stress efficiently.
the physical and combat education has to be such that 1 single police officer trained at governments money is able to tackle 3 militants if both parties have same weapons....if required the trainers should be given training in guerilla warfare or commando training in the same remote Mizoram camp where the US Marine commandos came to take training before going to afghanistan and Iraq .
police pay revision has to be taken up to make them feel wanted, worthy and respectable with good fringe benefits for them and their families.I still feel fringe benefits have not reached who actually deserve them the most...the people because of whom civilians can sleep peacefully deserve it, isnt it?
a corruption less dignified, united and better networked (with surveillence, intelligence capacity) Police force will surely reverse the present trend......where crimes are on the rise....police are getting low pays, arm wise at a disadvantageous position compared to the militants who possess AK 47's and corruption is increasing which is actually helping a police-criminal nexus than a police-criminal rivalry....... better we invest more for social welfare and to the deserving one so that civilians can sleep in peace ....
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However i don't think we should totally mark those in militant groups as outcasts and let them be fodder of anti insurgency campaigns......they have joined for some cause 20-30 years ago.....situations have changed.....ground realities have changed.....they dont have much time left to live....how they could be rehabilated (not the SULFA way though) so that they could take care of their families......I think some NGO's help should be taken to reach out to them.......every family of terrorists need to be located and taken good care of them to unearth reasons for their son going astray and pursue the family members to convince their militant relative about a last chance to help them out by joining mainstream then facing Bullets in any encounter........life doesnot usually give second chances......
Actually the 7th-10th standard students in Assam should be informed about the terrorism issue with detailed history and and how they could benefit if normalcy is restored.........if properly this is executed this will help put concern over those students and their parents......a statewide plea from those children and parents should be one way of trying a last ditch effort before trying the last option perhaps...........total Indian Army controlled KPS Gill's Punjab type cleansing or mopping of terrorists though that would be really a sad day for assam.....
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i appreciate your views.........
my opinion is a bit different though because i have seen change happen ....in Assam Itself...only problem is the change agent was an outsider.....and as you have said got transferred......
I am taliking about my own home district/home town golaghat which was (well) represented by basumatories, swargiyaris, Pegu's as Deputy Commissioner and rightfully so cause the place was sleepy....(ULFA first generated here was a different story alltogether)....they came, they drank, and they went......Golaghat stayed sleepy...
In came a simple looking man....Dr. Ravi Kota, IAS officer from Andhra, as the new Deputy Commissioner of the sleepy district of Golaghat.......
i would like to tell you how he changed it..
1)He held meetings and tracked out who are the present and past good officer, engineer, doctor, professor, religious head, businessmen, influential leader (maybe a 40yr old dada of the locality though) etc. that are available in Golaghat at present......
2)he did a background check and then selected a few and collected all the past projects that these people had proposed but is lying up in DC cabin or any other government office like ASEB, PWD etc for want of approval.......then he invited them for a meeting to first get their opinions and then presented them that these were the projects that you wanted to do..could you still do it, if i back you..
My uncle who was then a retired EXC.Elect. Engineer in ASEB (he took voluntary retirement in frustration) was given a jeep for all those travels related to his project and when he asked about what will happen if he goes then Mr Kota immediately called up the MLA and created a fund for that purpose only and gave the first installment in the meeting itself !!my uncle had to work on it and the sleepy look was changed with some proper electrification which was earlier veteod with cheap lighting under previous managements......
a road was widened as people and religious heads agreed to break walls of Mandirs and masjids
Funds from NRL and Tea garden owners, businessmen were such passionately asked by this man of Andhra that they could not commit to less than what he asked......
I remember our localities middle aged dada like figure (i wont quote his name) being so much happy to be getting that much of encouragement from the DC, that he pulled out various issues and practical suggestions and actually worked far far better than the previous 10 local councillors put together.........
parks were created on the boundary of an idle tank and it has became quite popular now....the amateur Hall was renovated....in totality Goalghat was totally transformed in a span of 3-4 years...leave alone 5 yrs.......
need less to say having got transferred so much he is now in Andhra, yet has a sweet remembrance of those time in Assam......
once when a fire broke out....instead calling the local DC, people called Mr Kota in sivasagar and he arranged firebrigades in 5 minutes when the local DC was sleeping and didnot want to be disturbed......(cause of his sleep was not sleepiness of golaghat though at that time as Kota had changed it already)
luckily i met him this Bhogali Bihu and when i said m from golaghat and told him my surname, he asked whether i know Rafiqur Rahman, retired exc. engineer, ASEB !!!
I have to admit...Leaders are really a rare breed !!!
Amitabh da...I apologise for the surname bit.......
would e-governance help? how much would it cost to implement in Assam?
at present i only know some officers use some @yahoo.com or @rediff.com ID's as per e-governance initiative
(proof::: official link: http://assam.gov.in/who_is_who/chiefminister_profile.asp)
where replies are......
a simple "thank you very much" or
"the site/work/project is under maintenance.you would be updated soon"......which mean eaither there will not be any further work on that front or you will never get an update ......
those are my personal experiences ......
on a lighter note :::
I saw one telegu movie called Operation Duryodhana on social reform which was banned !!!It had some witty yet touching questions. I am passing it to you all...you can take it in lighter vein or could think over it......
1. when the votes are bought by MLA's by any means, MLA's have the right to get it back by any means when they become MLA.
2.Educated middle class people goes on blaming the government or the netas when they donot themselves participate in elections nor vote.
3.people blame police for inactivity, but when evidences are required to nail a criminal, who backs out?
4.Non residents show sympathy comparing the development that is there in their present place and their homeland......why don't they repay the debt with compound interest that the homeland deserves for grooming him/her at so low costs during his childhood period so that he could be there now.....
5. 80% of taxes are saved by the people almost wrongfully and still the same people point the fingers to the govt for the scams.....isn't it like thieves pointing fingers at dacoits ??
6. If the journalist/photographer was so angry about the kissing/obscene scene he was taking snaps, why did he allow it to happen at first place?
7.bribe givers are why left always unpunished nor enquired into? Are only bribe takers the culprits from moralistic views?
8.reservation in medical and engineering colleges are made for a section's benefit, but that section goes to general doctors or engineers for their health or home construction cause they don't want to take chances.....(??)Were indians so backward prior to our independence that even after 60 years of independence and various reservation policies, we have still people left asking for only increase in it ? How much is the conversion rate of backward to forward due to implementation of that policy itself?If no result is gained then why it is not being abolished like any other useless programs?
.....indeed it was a very funny movie with various questions?
I had a long chat with a well informed person presently in Assam about the present condition of Assam
about all the job fairs that's being organised by the govt....the activity behind them...
about the proposed engineering colleges and the locations......the people and reasons behind it...(barak valley is getting a good deal with Santoh Mohan Dev's able leadership in Centre)....
...the naming game with anything being named after Rajiv or Indira Gandhi.....(ex Governor SK Sinha atleast gave due respect to Gopinath Bordoloi with Bharat Ratna and Lachit Borphukan's statue and Best cadet medal in Navel Academy in his name.....)
about Journalists Homen borgohain/ Hiren Gohain ...their changing views...about the causes behind assam agitation ...
about future foreign investment and infrastracture development ...
about the various loans that govt has taken.....with no real plan on repayment in place...
about assamese mentality of being totally selfish with welfare of own family as the sole concern......unless provoked we even don't think on or are just plain blunt ignorant fools to react on issues which is surely got to hit us....maybe our next generation....like the bangladeshi issue, educational reforms, unemployment etc.....and only way to react is just a dumb plain Bandh....the problem is lack of leadership or good beaurocrats present in Assam....
we chatted about newspaper reporting that is going on assam....
about the investment plans of NRAssamese .....the pressure on Only guwahati in case there is a High Tech City..about feasibility of dividing economic zones for readying up to face the IT Storm if it comes..
about rang ghar and tourism.
After all these discussions we were left with one conclusion......systems n processes have failed..we cannot and should not find fault in individuals...all collectively failed...some failed due to lack of proper planning, some due to misguided leadership....its us assamese who have to change then blaming the centre for every neglect.
to change if we could , we have to make our newspapers Good......with good positive thoughts......with focus on moral education so that atleast the new generation can think positive....the new generation could have leaders of high value and morality to replace the present......
we need to have good teachers who could teach values to the students to become morally good, with civilized manner.....to teach them about the effects of corruption, scams, bribes which looks lucrative and easier way of getting rich and getting jobs done......the emphasis on hard work and about benefits of good work culture.....
----so at present assam requires not only good leaders, but good journalists and some good teachers if we could think of a change in the way Assam's systems and processes are working.....
could we try changing them?....AGAIN ??
could we try changing them?.......again........by sending them emails...if we do nothing, nothing will change....let's try even if it is not being noticed....with the hope that even some of them read it and may think of change in this regard......
what do you think on that.....this we can do without any time being wasted and without resporting to bandh and dharnas as a mean of change.....
what you guys think?
One great silent worker of Assam gave me some of these Email ID's to use as a tool for making atleast some changes than talking and writing all the time and doing absolutely nothing.......I got some instant results though !!!
If anybody is SERIOUS about it let me know with your email ID, I will send you the email Addresses.....you can contact me at my email id :mofid.rahman@gmail.com
I appreciate this effort by the thread owner........Ahoms has a 600 years legacy and Lachit Borphukon had the guts to throw off the Mighty Moghuls......we need to project him well.......at an NDA academy in khadavasla there is a statue of Lachit dangoria......thats no mean a great appreciation by the centre (accepting the military might and cunningness he showed in that saraighat war and trying to part it to our NDA Cadets).....so we can't blame it on centre.....it's us who need to promote him......we the non resident assamese need to tell our colleagues, room mates etc about that bravery of this great son of Assam.....This as a primitive mood of advertising about Lachit dangoria.....on a national front if we need an advertisement, it has to be from Dept. of Tourism, Assam......Meghalaya is putting ads on television about cherrapunji.......where are ads on assam......the whole northeast ads is what it comes in papers, by incredible india campaign by India tourism and no where the single assam ad comes in tourism related seminars that i have visited...where is the ad on Assam ?? what exactly the dept. of tourism , Assam is doing on publicity outside assam.......i still remember a national tourism fair where the northeast stall was manned by Nagas and manipuris and assam pamphlet was below the desk and you have to ask for assam pamphlet to get your copy whereas other copies you can receive it from the desk itself....some pamphlets were under the shoe of the manipuris and nagas......i could just collect those, clean up the dust and put it in the pile for assam......had never felt so humiliated like this before...BUT WHAT COULD I DO ??? Dept of tourism assam needs firm hands to drive a national publicity campaign if we need to showcause what assam has....assamese are not a jaati , it has been a "maha jaati" as it had embraced so many communities into one lot (leave alone the post- independence disintegration part) .....it needs(No, IT DESERVES) a better platform surely.......
I will be glad to receive an analysis of the threat posed by the bangladeshis.........
Are we susceptible to a taliban kind of rule in near future??
How much is the present population in them and what is the population growth rate? is the growth rate alarming??
which areas have fallen to them and which areas are likely to become their stranglehold in near future?? Nagaon, Marigaon, Karbi anglong are presently their bases.....with even Members in Legislative Assembly......11 MLA's out of 126 makes it 8.7% as per last assembly results........
.....One great danger is Maulabis (Islamic preachers like pandits for hindus) are mostly from the Nagaon char areas who can incite the homogeneous assamese muslims towards wrong path........With less scope for modernization of the preaching of Islam, there is always a threat of maulabis diverting the thought processes totwards what they want ...... This is where a very big probable threat lies........That exactly happened in Afghanistan by the talibans from Pakistan......
I still feel assam can improve with more easy access to education......and that education has to come from Good Teachers........presently, i am sorry at the resource pool that is imparting education to our future generations..............that's not their problem as educated few are working in good places or out of assam and the pay structure for teachers is not lucrative enough for the creamy batch to opt for it......I may look like hard hitting, but the present assamese elementary education is in the hands of second or third layer of the present generation.....the top two layers are totally out of it.......But this is impacting how our future generations will shape out...not a ideal picture to think of, isn't it???
Even vocational educations should be imparted to school levels from class 7 itself as major part of our school students can study upto class 10th with great financial difficulty and those vocational educations can atleast instill some kind of entrepreneurship to assamese youth !
To come out of insurgency affected areas, the children are needed all possible moral and emotional support that we could provide them......we need to show them what people like Arnab Goswami's( TimesNoW Group Chairman), Deepak Jain( Dean Kellogge College of Management who is from Tezpur) and others have achieved with their education and dedication in fields like, education, corporate world, sports etc....Only then they can think of better dreams and have some motivation left....................
The worst impediment is our blame-all attitude.......children growing up with this will have only negative attitude towards life and society itself...that's enough to cause greater harm than by any other provocations........
We will have to start a new thought process if we want our next generation to think of something better ......We lacked these guidance from our previous generations and shamefully we have not thought about correcting ourselves either till now........
Japanese became the reverred ones due to the hurt they felt at the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, we perhaps need 10 such bombings to become hurt and react that way !!
Till then carry on the fight and the tamasha !!!!! with the occasional Joi Aai Asom !! Sadly, we donot even have a Asom day to be patriotic about !!!
Lets forget what happened in the past and let's not think that any leader will help us out of it...
Shouldnot we all became a leader of our own (without publicity) and try a slow peaceful revolution from our individual basis.........
There is a japanese management philosophy called "Kaizen"....don't get panicky its not a very high level management word or concept......it points to small small changes towards changing for the better...kai---change, Zen --Better
what changes we can think of on our own
..from a half a glass EMPTY point of view, we can do nothing or very few......and keep quiet as it is not going to affect me economically mentality........
from a half a glass FULL point of view, we can do many a thing towards providing a better environment for our future generation.......
The question is how could we serve then.....
let's be practical here................time and energy for us is too less with the given status of us ( 60% or more of the people reading this post are of middle class assamese families who are busy with their works and are not that much rich enough to take up a wholehearted movement forward even though one would like to)......
For the educated one's i would like them to inform about their achievements and other assamese success stories that they have seen and have encountered to the younger lot( a seminar on saturday afternoon after the classes for the schoolgoing kids would be a great one, I don't think school administration will disallow such an initiative)......guide the new generation about the job avenues, what newspaper or what books to cultivate reading etc...how people have availed and can fund one's higher education with loans etc....If your initiative motivates even a single guy out of 100 you can be proud of being a revolutionary (peaceful) in your own right......
Yes for these we need to have only one thing in mind, whatever others say, what i am doing is good for my community and i will hear whatever other may tell me teasingly.....
I donot know why (80% or more) people of assam are so pessimistic about the past and future of Assam.....(I am not talking about anyone who have posted their views in this thread).....i had a quarrel lot many times with even my dad also about that outlook.......this is bad, that is bad..............yes..things are bad, but what is the way ahead !!!i will agree if after finding the bad people come up with solutions, otherwise it's sheer waste of time and energy.......
...........our old generation was lost in pessimism...........let us alteast have some positive thoughts and actions so that atleast our next generation will have some brighter things to look on.....
.............if Bhupenda and Zubeen feel disgusted to call themselves assamese then i wont be surprised cause if they do so, it would show how we have given respect or appreciated them for bringing good name to us......compared with the bengali, tamilian or keralite jaatyabhimaan i feel we pale very badly......i was amazed at the support Ganguly got even when he was going through a rough phase......we don't even know our world champion bodybuilders from our motherland !!
Kakoti daa, My appreciations !!.....let all of us become leaders of change in our own individual way and atleast try to make our future generation's environment atleast 5% better than what they will be without our guidance.......
..........As assamese lets start appreciating the good work that others are doing,no matter how or what kind of mentality the person may have....we need to appreciate assamese people who have got good names for us........let's back them in their enterprises......criticizing them will lead us no where.......we have a long way to go before the whole world start appreciating the assamese community as a resourceful one !!!
Subhash da,
read your scrap about the impending disaster awaiting assam..which is very alarming................ Are there any solutions ?? you know, I already sleep in Hyderabad everyday praying that the killer Earthquake that geologists have predicted for assam doesnot come in the night hours when my people are sleeping...very very scary.......................heard a lot about plans by chinese to divert the Brahmaputra when it is passing through China for irrigation in their country.......or about a river linking plan which may help balance overflooding in Assam to draught hit places in the Deccan plateau or some other areas......I am a layman in terms of geography/Geological knowledge, but these facts i keep on checking to know if it could prevent an impending disaster of my house being flooded overnight, like how a tsunami created havoc......in face of Nature's fury, nothing may go right......but do you still think we have a chance...............if you are a scientist,Subhasda, please do something for people like us.......i am already scared for my family in Assam......
How much (Least) time do we have in your estimate?? ....... and any idea what steps government is doing? Which central ministry is responsible to work on this??......Through Right to Information we can know the status of the work that has been taken up by them....
Kamran, you posted a query about learning more of Assamese culture thorugh this forum and sought our help..
...Dear Guest, Kamran, I appreciate your keenness to know about our culture and I apologize as an Assamese here as due to my busy schedules I was not able to provide you much information till now....
Let me provide you with some insight which should address your query
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Assam can be termed as the mixing pot where culture, heritage, tradition, lifestyle,
faith and belief of her Aryan & Non-Aryan, numerous tribes & sub-tribes,
Mongoloids & Australoids, drawn from various hives at different points of time have gone into form the Assamese culture - a fascinating and exotic recipe of delightful flavour. The culture of Assam is a rich tapestry infused with multicoloured yarns of distinguished heritage of all the races that populate her.
The People of Assam
The people of Assam are in fact the result of fusion of people from different racial stocks who migrated to Assam down the ages. The Assamese population can be divided into two broad groups :
the non-tribal people who constitute the majority and the tribals.
The Australoids were the first to come to the land; the Mongoloids, came here in a series of migrations from the north, north-east and south-east; and the Caucasoids who came from the west by the valley formed by the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
Today, the people of the State can be broadly identified and classified as the Non-Tribals or Plains People. The people of the plains generally live in the plains and the Tribals mainly live in the hills. Though, Assam has a valuable tribal population in the plains too.
The state is peopled by a large number of tribal groups; major among them being the Boro-Kacharis, the Deori, the Misings, the Dimassas, the Karbis, the Lalungs, the Rabhas etc. Ahkhomiya or Assamese is the language of Assam. Assam has a reputation for warm hospitality. People of Assam are homely, charming and openhearted.
Bihu, the agricultural festival of Assam is celebrated by all Assamese, irrespective of caste, creed or religion. Bihu, Assam's very own festival come off at various stages of cultivation of paddy, the principal crop of Assam. There are three Bihus that come off at various stages of cultivation of paddy, the principal crop of Assam. They are
Magh (Magha) Bihu (During Jan 13th - Jan 15th)
Bohag (Baisakh) Bihu, (During April 13th - April 15th)
Kati (Kartika) Bihu (Near Diwali)
The Bohaag Bihu marks the New Year at the advent of seeding time, the Kaati Bihu marks the completion of sowing and transplanting of paddies, and the Maagh Bihu marks the end of the harvesting period. Bohaag Bihu is also called the Rongaali Bihu or the Festival of Merriment, Maagh Bihu is also called Bhogaali Bihu or the Festival of Food, Kaati Bihu is also called Kongaali Bihu or the Festival of the Poor.
Of the three Bihu festivals which are secular and non-religious, the Bohaag Bihu ushers in the period of greatest enjoyment and marks the arrival of Spring. The folk songs associated with the Bohaag Bihu are called Bihugeets or Bihu songs. The Bohaag Bihu lasts for several days during which "the young people in the vilalge may be seen moving about in groups gaily dressed or forming circles in the midst of which the prettiest girls dance" .singing songs of love and romance. Such gatherings are called Mukoli Bihus (Open Bihus). The songs are very popular among all sections of the people.
Most of the festivals celebrated in Assam have their root in the varied faith and belief of its people. Diwali, Holi, Durga Puja, Swaraswati Puja, Lakshmi Puja, Kalipuja, Shivaratri are some of the major festivals celebrated by the Hindus of Assam. Those of Islamic faith celebrate Idd and Muharram. Similarly, Christians celebrate Christmas.
Besides the religious and national festivals observed throughout the Country, Assam has a large number of colourful festivals of its own replete with fun, music and dances
In addition to all this, the tribals of Assam have their own colourful festivals like :
The Kherai Puja of the Bodos
The Baikhu and Pharkantis of the Rabhas
Ali-ai-ligang and Prag by the Missing tribe
The Sagra-misawa wansawa and laghun by the Tiwas.
The Ahomes of Tai origin celebrate Me-Dem-Mehfi.
The Ojapali dances of Non-Vaishnavite origin are usually associated with Manasa - the Serpent Goddess.
Bathow festival is celebrated by the kacharis through sacrifice of goates and chickens.
Assam Art & Crafts- The Boros of the plains in general have an intricate pattern of indigenous dances associated with the primitive rituals like the Kherai Puja.
The Dimasas celebrate Rangi Gobr and Harni gobra at the start of the cropping cycle.
The Deoris observe Bohagiya visu- the Spring time festival.
Ambubasi Mela is held during monsoon at the famous Kamakhya Temple.
Jonbeel Mela is held every year during winter at Jonbeel. The festival is celebrated by the tribes like Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi, Jaintia etc.
From time immemorial, the people of Assam have traditionally been craftsmen. The magic of art of Assamese craftsmen is a common passion inspiring the deep senses with its’ age old simplicity and sophistication. Though, Assam is renown for its exquisite silks, bamboo and cane products, several other crafts are also made here. The colourful Assamese Japi (headgear), terracotta of Gauripur and various decorative items bear witness to the craftsmanship of this land. Assam Handloom is indeed noteworthy offering a mosaic of colours and contours with pleasing motifs and designs. The Eri, Muga (Assamese silk dresses) and typical tribal attires are a treat to the eyes of the beholder. Dance, music, woodwork, pottery, sitalpati or the art of mat making have survived through centuries with fewer changes since it remained an integral part of the locals.
Assam has a rich cultural tradition, which finds detail in several arts and crafts form of Assam. The natural beauty of Assam, is said to be reflected, in them.
Cultural Symbols
1) Xorai -- the logo visible in your left hand side )
The Xorai is a traditional symbol of Assam. In simplistic terms it is an offering tray with a stand at the bottom. There are Xorais with or without a cover on the top.
Tradional xorais are made of bell metal although nowadays they can also be made from brass and/or silver. Hajo and Sarthebari (Xorthebaary) are the most important centres of traditional bell-metal and brass crafts including xorais.
Usage
* As an offering tray for tamul-pan (betel nuts and betel leaves) to guests as a sign of welcome and thanks.
* As an offering tray for food and other items placed in front of the altar (naamghar) for blessing by the Lord.
* As a decorative symbol in traditional functions such as during Bihu dances (modern usage)
* As a gift to a person of honour during felicitations (modern usage)
2) Gamosa ( the towel over the xorai in the logo)
The Gamosa is an article of great significance for the people of Assam.
It is generally a white rectangular piece of cloth with primarily a red border on three sides and red woven motifs on the fourth (in addition to red, other colors are also used). Although cotton yarn is the most common material for making/weaving gamosas, there are special occiasion ones made from Pat silk.
Usage:
Though it may be used daily to wipe the body after a bath (an act of purification), the use is not restricted to this.
It is used to cover the altar at the prayer hall or cover the scriptures. An object of reverence is never placed on the bare ground, but always on a gamosa.
It is used by the farmer as a waistcloth (tongali) or a loincloth (suriya); a Bihu dancer wraps it around the head with a fluffy knot (see picture).
It is hung around the neck at the prayer hall (naamghar) and was thrown over the shoulder in the past to signify social status.
Guests are welcomed with the offering of a gamosa and tamul (betel nut) and elders are offered gamosas ((referred to as bihuwaan in this case) during Bihu)
3)Jaapi:
A Jaapi is a traditional Assamese hat.
A typical regular use Jaapi is made out of tightly woven bamboo and/or cane. Decorative jaapis were worn by people of high station in the past. Today decorative jaapis are made with intricate designs made out of cloth (primarily red, white, green, blue and black) that is integrated with the weaving of the jaapi. There is also a typical red border around the edges.
Usage
* Worn over the head as a protection against the elements (sun and rain)
* Offered as a sign of respect in felicitation ceremonies
* Placed as decorative items in and around the house (especially near the front door as a welcome sign)
* A symbol representing Assam
4)Mekhela Chador:
Mekhela chador is the traditional Assamese dress worn by women.
There are two main pieces of cloth that are draped around the body. The bottom portion, draped from the waist downwards is called the mekhela. It is in the form of a very wide cylinder that is folded into pleats to fit around the waist and tucked in. The top portion if a long length of cloth that has one end tucked into the upper portion of the Mekhela and the rest draped over and around the rest of the body. Invariably there is a blouse that is worn underneath the top half of the body.
5)Tamul paan
– Betel nut & a leaf given by Assamese on ceremonial occasions, to beg blessings or pardon from elder men in community in Xorais
Traditional Assamese Hindu wedding
Check out the link to have a view of the Traditional Assamese Hindu wedding
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dutta/visitindia/assamese_wedding.html
Naamghars:
Naamghars are places of worship as well as centre for community get togethers and cultural festivals like Bhaonas (Plays depicting tales from Ramayana and Mahabharata) which are very famous and dear to Assamese.
Lessons learnt:
Case Study from My perspective......
I had seen Kamran's first post but as I was a bit pre occupied with work then, I thought some body will reply to him and I also had a doubt as how much information in Totality I myself have about our great assamese culture to provide to a guest.....That's why i did not reply and as Tridip also says we were busy with our work to respond in detail.....This laziness on my part and the other members being busy might have led to the delay in responding to Mr. Kamran's query. This might have resulted in Mr. Kamran feeling a bit neglected and it resulted in this thread........On seeing this thread we all felt bad and we were able to provide Mr Kamran all the answers which he requires.I hope we have a new friend of Assam in Mr. Kamran.....
Lessons learnt:
So the Lesson I learnt is, I must respond when a visitor comes up with a query, not to be dependent on other members who might also be busy, and I need not be lazy to a work which I can do myself with some R&D and confidence in myself, so that any visitor to our forum doesnot feel neglected again.....Ours is a Mahajaati which has a great history as well appreciations from All till now, for whom we all are ambassadors..........
....I still feel sorry for letting my community down with my initial laziness as a ambassador of her here in Hyderabad.....
"kagoj khon prohilehe bhaal sorsa koribo"
asomiya newspaper keikhon ji gaor manuhe porhe prothome seikhon thik huar darkar........front page khon dekhar porai kiba marishaalit thoka jen laage......only about news on deaths, dacoity, corruption, scam, enquiry etc at Rs 3 or 4 per day per paper.....+ve feel good news khub kom he dekha puwa jaai .... only the best news i remember are during the matric and +2 results when they uncover how boys from villages are making it big due to their hard work........there are so many assamese success stories....why not highlight those and try to show the young generation that these are the success stories who have come from Villages and made it big nationally or internationally.......
-------I remember dad used to blame the govt once he finishes reading his assamese news paper, while mom used to see it for the news on the dacoitys, kidnappings or any crime related news other than the information that is for the Kitchen and bonsai......
----Aamar Asom was a bit different though when Homen Borgohain was advising Tarun gogoi about what he should do and what not during the initial days of his first term....it used to be very informative and in sync with the national dailys. I dont how how it is at present as i have lost touch since i found Assam Tribune too good and informative to help me learn english......and i still read it daily online as i am staying out of Assam at present.......
----Many of my journalist friends whom i meet and tell my concern reply that people are so used to these news that even the editorial management only looks for those news on deaths, corruption etc as first priority.....they say they are helpless......these way they are poisoning the mind of young assamese generation who are feed these -ve news all the time.......hopefully some better sense will prevail sooner before another generation is brought into terrorism as a result of this........
@Jonak
...well most muslims r not assamese at all..........
Thanks Jonak for the use of the word "most" as being a descendent of the great Bagh Hazarika, I feel sad if someone questions my identity as an Assamese.......
If you want to know about the valour and contribution towards Assam(against the Muslim Moghuls) from Bagh Hazarika check out this Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagh_Hazarika
I respect your views on BJP.....but i request please donot generalize and hurt some true assamese in the name of religion......it would be sad if my mom gets hurt and stops making Pithas on Bihus or my relatives stop giving the bihuwans to us when we go to their places......
......The Assamese muslims are what?? from where they arrived first think on that......these are very Assamese who just changed their religion.....culturally they remained assamese...only changed their preaching procedure of reaching the alimighty.........
To fight the bangladeshi threat, we (meaning all genuine Assamese(all the Hindu assamese, muslim assamese, christian assamese and even the marwari assamese )need to unite and not cast aspersions on the genuinity of the assamese which may destroy the whole integration process......A Nellie masacre engineered by a certain Gandhi to break the asamese students Assam andolan on divide on rule policy was a example in Assam itself... if we donot learn to learn from history, we may have to repent for it later.
..but to tackle the threat of bangladesis we need to get our assamese guys to be able to take up their jobs...at Jagiroad, i was amazed by the work ethic of the bangladeshis compared with the assamese labour that we used to get in our quarter...will the assamese guys not feel shy to ply rickshaws, sell eggs? note the barbers (luckily they are non-assamese yet Indians)...first we need to have a social change towards better work culture which is worsening in the fury of the bandh culture that sadly some Student Unions are preaching in assam......education scene remains grim..
the govt school results are on a downward swing and if you analyze a bit you will get the root......the teachers (specially the ones who taught English and Maths) in the baby boom generation have just started retiring and their places are being taken by new ones who are the second or third lot meritwise (process to recruit itself is questionable enough)........and english and maths are where most of the students are failing.......teaching in schools as profession itself is not lucrative enough and in their depression a whole generation is getting wasted.......(I would like to make sure here that i am not generalizing the teaching community as there are a few who despite their low salaries are giving great education due to which the education system is just surviving gasping for breath instead of a total failure and collapse) .....there are reforms which are required in these areas.......
If we want a better assam, its WE ASSAMESE who have to unite and try analyzing the woes and think of solutions.......problems are many and will be.....but if a militancy hit Punjab can just not come back to normalcy and develop tremendously...why not Assam.....only thing lies a desparate social change towards giving value to hard work and education........the earlier the better...or are we awaiting a nagasaki like catastrophe to hit our pride and only then we assamese will react?
Thanks Jonak !
Thanks Jonak.....
.....I am glad that at least you are thinking about changing the present Assam towards a better Assam in future......at least you are keeping that in mind and working towards it, many are in deep slumber and busy with their present.......
....I would surely welcome a BJP in Assam with developmental outlook to challenge the Congress as without a proper opposition government becomes arrogant and incompetent....
---at present Assam needs some social as well as economic reforms if we can dream of better prospects for our next generations........
---being part of those horror days in president rule and the present days, i think we can surely dream of some better days in near future with a little bit of more effort from Govt, public, and some thoughtful actions from student Unions. (Bandh culture will derail every bit of initiation work towards an IT Revolution that Assamese youth can think of dreaming at this moment)
Bheja Fried :-)
First i thought this thread as another silly discussion and did not give it a thought .....but when i thought, some facts unfolded before me which i want to share with you........
1) How much do we really know about our own assamese film industry??
(if you want a ready answer check the URL:
http://rupaliparda.com/english/History.htm)
2) In South India, there is massive fan following for its regional cinema and the superstars have cult status (MG Ramachandran, NT Rama Rao, Jayalalitha, Karunanidhi etc have become chief ministers and Chiranjeevi may be the next one if the present heat that is blowing in Andhra Pradesh towards his joining active politics....Rajnikant can be one if he thinks on the same line as Chiranjeevi). People would come to halls in long queues, superstars have their fans in lakhs who would donate blood on the stars birthdays,people will buy regional CD's and cassattes and would play them at home, saloons and autos........saloons and autos are the best markets for regional films in terms of selling their audio contents which i find assamese films are missing.......(it is a slightly less recognisible yet very big market....) .....part of the superstarhood can be attributed to these stars being paid heavily and hence could donate hugely in return to make some fan bases.......their personalities also had a large bearing on sustaining their superstardom.......Now for comparison whom can we look at as contemporarires in Assamese film industry?? Biju Phukon, Nipon Goswami, Pranjal Saikia, Tapan Das???? incomparable to the pull of those south indian stars, isnt it(acting wise they can be, but Stardom wise.....ours lag too far behind
Two reasons are:
1) monetary aspects as mentioned above
2) actors in mid forties are no hero material in Assemese films whereas a 60 year old Rajnikanth or a 55 years Old Chiranjeevi can fight and dance like a hero and is accepted well by the fans......
3) The market for assamese cinema is too small.......and it pains when south Indian B-Grade adult movies are getting a market in Assam (i remember friends in Cotton College Hostel telling me once about these in Bijuli hall in Panbazar)......
----I remember reading an article where Jahnu Baruah was unhappy with the response he got for all his 9 national award winning films and is not keen on making any more films in assamese......this surely is a sad commentary on the state of things in assamese film industry......
So how could we brighten the prospects for the assamese movie industry.....
1)regional films have a unique market....so to tap the market, regional seniments have to tackled with...commercialization aspects have to be addressed as well....i think we had addressed those aesthetically in movies like, Ghar Sansar, Bowari,Pita-Putra, Aajoli Naubo, Xun Moina,Puja, Xuraj, Mon-Mondir, Kanyadaan, joubone amoni kore, hiya diya niya etc...has the film making now detoriated in JOLLYWOOD ??
To tap new markets, Jollywood needs to tap new areas.....Telugu movies are shown in North America/ Canada, UK, Hindi movies have became a force there, so can we tap the NRAssamese there(presently we have a larger population there, then it exists say a 10 years ago).......we have a very strong assamese presence in places like NCR Delhi, Pune, bangalore,Hyderabad, Chennai etc which should be slowly tapped with proper marketing strategies (people won't mind shelling 180 rs to see a assamese movie there cause it is unavailable otherwise there)....i would give my example.......i am in South India for the last 5 years and have not seen a single assamese movie in this period ....i go to assam for 15 days period twice in a year and watching an assamese movie in between the travel is missed ...i will surely like to watch a assamese movie even at a higher cost if get it here...now i donot even now the upcoming movies and the releases last year except joonda iman gunda..question is how do we manage the distribution here??
one interesting news:::::(the world is full of potentialities, we need to just have an open eye to look and tap at those)
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Assamese films can get global platform: Polish envoy
GUWAHATI, March 27, 2007 – The Assamese film industry may be passing through one of the worst phases ever, but it is certainly not the end of the road for the regional industry and the people involved in it.Dr. Krzysztof Majka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland, who is here to attend the Guwahati Polish Film Festival which is being organised under the aegis of Gauhati Cine Club (GCC) today ignited fresh hopes for the languishing regional industry saying the Assamese film industry can reap benefits of the ‘co-production’ concept after tying up with film producers of Poland who are very open to this kind of joint venture.He went to state that the concept of co-production would not only help both the industries but would also fetch a wide range of flexibility to both forms of cinema. “Moreover, it would also help in giving Assamese cinema an international platform and a wider range of audience across the globe,” he said.When asked what kind of help can the Polish embassy in India provide in this regard, he said, “Today world cinema has become congested and one even does not need to avail the help of any embassy to move forward with such kind of initiatives.” He further divulged that Poland is encouraging Indian cinema or for that matter foreign cinema like never before and added that the enchanting landscapes of Poland can really turn out as an attracting and virgin location for the film industries around the world. Majka also urged the private institutions in the Northeast to initiate steps to conduct bilateral cultural exchange programmes with Poland to make the region’s unique folk culture and tradition more popular and vice versa.
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There are lots of private cultural institutions in Poland, which are looking forward for such cultural exchange programmes and workshops and Northeast India can take advantage of it.“If anything like this can be arranged with the involvement of experts from both the countries, then it would help the growth of music and culture in both the countries,” he said.Majka hailing the trade ties between the two countries further said,” We have been sharing full-fledged bilateral relations with India since 1956 and since then it has shown a positive growth which is evident by a direct trade amounting to $ 650 million.”
for reading more on Jollywood topics please visit the link,
http://assam2007.blogspot.com/2008/01/cultural-news-related-to-assam-in-2007.html
Bid to bail out jinxed Assamese film industry
Assamese film to be released via satellite to evade piracy
Mini cinema hall concept yet to take off
a movie in Hindi in a grand scale with the valour of Lachit Borphukan depicting the Saraighat Ron against the Mighty moghuls directed by a Jahnu Barua would have been fabolous, in fact it would have been THE DEFINING moment for All assamese to the world !!
Will funds be a crunch for that movie??suppose at 45 crores !! to define ourselves better i think some NRAssamese would jump into it as they face a identity crisis outside even though earning in dollars/Pounds/euros/Dirhams they need to always say that we are assamese, and not nepali or chinese chini mini or chinka-chinkis nor we eat human flesh or snakes like tribals as outsiders know of us !!! we are just like the Rajputs who had the guts to love a war against the moghuls might than bowing down to them !!I donot find a definitive assamese movie in Hindi to tell people to know about us !!"Daman" donot qualify !!
Don't you guys miss that if you have watched Jodha Akbar and know a little bit and care about your assamese glorious past ??
a dismal 2007 ---can we change the script??
Thanks Noyon Jyoti and Arup da for the promises.......a new breed has to replace our glorious directors like Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Jahnu Barua's etc................
Just checked internet for the present status of Jollywood and found this horrible news which needs immediate attention if we care for Jollywood......our own cinema.....
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The year 2007 saw the release of only five Assamese films in theatre halls. Among these five, one was not even made in celluloid. The film 'Tumar Babe' was shot in digital format and later converted to 35 mm print through the reverse telly cine process. This film released in November, is the first Assamese film to be made in such a way. The four remaining films released in 2007 were 'Ahir Bhairav' (April), 'Nilakantha' (April), 'Junda Eman Gonda' (September) and 'Joymati' (November).
Since 1935, in the long 72 years of Assamese film's history, an Assamese film was shot entirely in abroad in London. The film was 'Ahir Bhairav' and it was produced by London based NRI Dr. Ranen Sharma and directed by veteran director Sivaprasad Thakur. However, the film flopped miserably despite being the most costly film (one crore) in the history of the Assamese film industry.
The director of 'Sonar Kharu Nalage Muk' (2005), Rajani Barman made another film in 2007 called 'Nilakantha'. The film based upon the struggle of a folkmusician in rural area was also a flop. Despite its strong theme, the film was not made and released properly. The third released film was Chandra Mudoi's entertainer 'Junda Eman Gonda'. The film was released simultaneously in more than dozen theatre halls through Mumbai based UFO, became the first Assamese film ever to be do so. However, despite the director's impressive track record in the past, this film was not very successful. Manju Bora's periodic saga 'Joymati' was earlier selected in the Indian Panorama section of IFFI 2006.
This film was also released in dozen theatre halls through satellite system in November. But the film was also not recieved very well even though it was critically acelaimed in the National arena.
The first reverse telly cine film 'Tumar Babe', though still running in theatres at the time of this writeup, is not expected to do much either. However, the film being made in a very low budget, may save the producers to a certain extent. Since the new century, 2007 saw the most fewer number of films in theatres and financially a very dismal year. The producers would not be able to recover their investments.
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It's take over time from the previous runners...the baton needs to be taken by the new breed of assamese filmakers surely......and I believe each new generation throws up new talent....we have those may be graduating in NSD or must be finetuning their skills somewhere......
Well-known actor-director from Assam and National School of Drama alumnus and now a member of its visiting faculty, Baharul Islam has these views:
“Our people need entertainment more than anybody else. Living in a strife-torn society, it is important that people get enough opportunities to laugh. Both theatre and cinema producers have a huge responsibility in this regard,”
“It seems our Government wants to see us tense all the time, and talk only about militancy.” Citing examples from ancient times, he points out how promotion of art is the ruler’s job finally. “Our Government doesn’t have any policy on culture. Without sponsorship, no creative work can flourish.”
"The responsibility of a community to keep its culture alive though can’t be overlooked. “Shakespearean plays are living because the scripts have been successfully moulded to fit the times. Sankardev, the greatest Assamese social reformer, lived before Shakespeare, but not much is known about him outside the State. We are responsible for this,” he says. Quite often he feels like staging Sandkardev’s ‘Ankiya Naat’ (one-act play) with a few changes. “But I restrain myself because people might not be able to accept them.”
Though he acted in three Assamese movies last year, he says filmdom there is in a nosedive.
“Even if you do good work, who will buy it? Where will you show them? Very few cinema halls are functional. For the last so many years, the Government has not sanctioned any licence to set up cinema halls,” he says. Many Assamese films are now canned only in CD format."
Noyon Jyoti and Arup da,
just wanted to pass this,(Must be very motivative for you two) if you have not gone through this earlier......
http://www.geocities.com/bipuljyoti/music/fagr.html
it is about how Late Prafulla Chandra Borooah recorded the first Assamese song on the Gramophone for the very first time in Calcutta....
specially the question from Burra Saheb to Him:
"Assamsese people like to sing Bengali songs." Don’t they? "Will Assamese record sell? Is the Assamese population large enough?"
best wishes to both of you in your endevour !!! We assamese need guys like you !! keep your chin up and don't get deterred by negative thoughts !!
As the saying goes....
IF YOU THINK YOU CAN, YOU CAN (accomplish it)....OTHERWISE YOU ARE RIGHT !!(you will not succeed if you donot have believe in your abilities)
Launching http://tourismassam.blogspot.com
i will be glad if you guys go through this blog........
http://tourismassam.blogspot.com/
I am expecting additions and possible subtractions of content.......anything thats wrong portrayal of facts or outdated data in case you can update me on that) or you want to delete cause you have a copyright over it then please send a mail to me @
mofid.rahman@gmail.com..i will delete it immediately.
just wanted to define assam in my own small way.....while doing this fell in love and respect for this great land.......
I respect criticism very much because it only betters you, me and here about Assam....so don't think twice before sending me any criticism......
I hope it is informative....Thanks.....
A proud Assamese santan !!
if one analyzes why Assam is late to get a taste of IT Revolution we can pinpoint two areas
1) Militancy
2)Bandh culture
Militancy problem can be decapacited if sufficient incentives and tight security bandobast is promised to the IT Companies to open up operations in Assam.....
But how do we eradicate the Bandh Culture prevailing in Assam and that too by the Students Unions??An earlier batch of students did enough that now nobody will listen to anything related to a new movement and No WAY, if it is initiated by youths......then where is the way out ??
-Hopefully like the Punjab scenario thing will move for better and with normalcy we might see IT Revolution flourishing here..english medium students will get chance to earn some decent income..assamese from major towns will prosper more...
..One major problem will be (I am saying this with my experience in Hyderabad during interviewing localites here in Andhra) since most of the Assamese are middle class families and have made their children study in vernacular schools and their english teachers (Not all, I repeat Not ALL) are themselves not being upto the mark(the baby boom generation teachers who were very good with their english are retiring and their places are being taken by new recruits with some controversial recruitment processes), the employable assamese youth who will face interviews are having english communicational skills with a prominent Northeastern accent ...so they will be left out and people from other states will come in..(I see more Nagas, manipuris, Khasis in northeast benefiting from it as they have education in english throughout)..will this lead to a Maharastra like situation in Assam ???how Assamese youth will cope up with the economic divide that a IT Revolution will bring ( I see it in Sivasagar where the prices are so high because of the ONGC employees).....will it worsen the scenario..i think economists need to think on this factors too before it is too late....they need to be ready with the remedies sooner.
i remember meeting a guy inside the flight from Delhi, who was proceeding to guwahati to give interview for a technical job in Relience....which he said was sure to get because there are not enough good assamese suitable for the profile and the suitable assamese are not ready to work in assam as per the words of his friends brother who was the HR guy ......
(his words pierced my assamese ego that day surely )
Debojit Saha -- one great unifying factor for assamese, isn't it ?? Prior to that, yes we were a bit busy with our lives only...now anybody who is from assam and is contesting in any competition is getting flooded with sms votes.....
Still i envy the regional feeling (jatyabhimaan) shown by the bengalis and Tamilians....They just back their fellow bretherns no matter what his caste/economic condition/actions are.......they even wanted to take claim for Bhupen da also when he won the Dada saheb Falke award.....i need not say anything about Saurav Ganguly !!!
However i sometimes feel, we make groups along economic conditions with fellow assamese( many times i have heard (from assamese policemen, security men, cooks etc that those organising Assamese get-togethers donot even invite us)...People need to refer more assamese in their organisations, Assamese in HR Domain should try forcing more assamese into jobs...we need to also look after the poorer section so that we as united assamese progress together.....
Our individual progress is good, but if we could also help other fellow bretherns with us to progress then it surely will be beneficial for us in the long run......
Like every thing in this world Every religion has mixed elements---some are good, some are bad........
The best way for an educated person is to judge what is good among those and try to follow/utilize them so that his own as well as his society gets benefited out of it......
The definitions about Karma in Geeta
The emphasis on helping the needy among christianity
The "auzoo", "kuluf" culture regarding hygiene among Muslims
the meditation related yoga among Buddhists
The vegetarianism among Jains
There are so many good aspects which have scientific reasons behind it for people to stay united and create a healthy atmosphere..
Religion has its base on mainly one mystery which still is yet to be solved..
What happens to us after we die?
That fear coupled with misinterpretation to get a ticket to heaven/swarg/behest has created all the chaos...religious lessons being passed on mouth-to mouth has created all the controversies with everyone trying to insert whatever rules which could benefit themselves.....
taken on a broader prospect the following rules will always be beneficial
do good
be good
do your work sincerely
control your anger, stay calm
donot fear anyone when you are in true path
Help all whom you could and help those who really need your help
Keep your words,
donot waste whatever you could save
If you could than share
don't be jealous, praise other's success and try to get success yourself
Give respect to get respect
"Matru, Pitru, acharya and atithi all have to be given due respect"
For any business to prosper, the main foucs should always be to
"Treat your customer as the King".."It's the customer who is giving you a favour by buying a service or product from you, not the other way round."
To keep your home happy you have to be the protector of your family, if somebody has malicious intention, then you need to take action so that your family's interests are safe.
These values I think will be ingredient for a happy life.Afterall dust is our last fate.
we require five star Hotels in Assam ..... Lack of it is a direct turn away for the foreigners as lack of infrastructure.......good news in this regard is the following news
Guwahati, Oct. 23,2007: The Tarun Gogoi government today indicated it would gladly make a few concessions for the Tatas to build a five-star hotel in the Assam capital.A meeting convened by Gogoi to discuss the nitty-gritty of the proposal by the Tata-owned Indian Hotels Company ended with the government showing more than a passing interest in expanding the city’s presence in the hospitality industry.Sources in the chief minister’s office said the company would like to build the hotel on a Kahilipara plot belonging to the veterinary department. If it gets that plot, the project will be completed in two years. Tourism minister Rockybul Hussain, veterinary minister Khorsingh Ingti, principal secretary (revenue) V.K. Pripersania, principal secretary (tourism) H.K. Das, Kamrup (metropolitan) deputy commissioner Avinash Joshi and the principal secretary to the chief minister, T.Y. Das, attended the meeting. Sources said the meeting reviewed the feasibility of the proposal before discussing the road ahead. One of the participants in the meeting suggested that the veterinary department enter into a joint-venture agreement with the company or hand over the land to the tourism department, which has been exploring ways to upgrade the hospitality sector to woo high-end tourists. “The discussions were fruitful, though nothing was finalised about handing the land to the company. We believe the proposed project is on the right track,” a source said.
Infosys’s chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy said during a visit to the city on August 4 that he would like to see “good air connectivity, a good five-star hotel, excellent bandwidth and good (use of) English” before his company begins operations in the state. If the Tata deal comes through, it will be the second investment from outside the state in a hotel after the one being constructed by the DS Group in Gotanagar. The Taj Group, also owned by the Tatas, is already building a hotel at Six Mile under its Ginger brand.Gogoi met Ratan Tata in Mumbai during one of his visits this year to hunt for investment. The need for high-end hotels was also raised during the investment summit in Bangkok last month.
this reminded me of the Chandra Babu Naidu example......
he owned and distributed a huge area on the outskirts of Hyderabad to his friends which was very low cost at that time and then opted that place where the present Hitech city is located and offered it to foreign companies at a good price...........a throw away kind of prospered due to this,,,,,,,,
however the problem is, that particular middle class who got maximum benefit out of it didnot vote for him in hyderabad itself........maybe a lesson learnt by the other politicians that its no use helping this high class who are so selfish and busy with their own AC office rooms/cars/residences...........:-)
"atithi devo bhavo" principle is good when the athithi is a person with honest intention. When the atithi is a person with malicious intent with intention to harm your household and inflict damage to your property you must throw him out.........before he invites more trouble......
Assamese community has not faced such threat from the others whom we usually suspect and confuse.....like the marwari community, bihaaris or presently in the ongoing discussion the bengali speaking community from erstwhile Sylhet district.......what assamese communities have faced from them is justifiable competition......and we are not upto the mark which we as assamese community need to admit as a bitter truth and try to sort out remedies how we could make the assamese community stronger economically, educationally, work ethic wise etc.etc...
But the danger that i talked about in my previous paragraph that assamese community now faces is from the recent Muslim bangladeshi infiltrators........the previous era muslim bangladeshi infiltrators can be clubbed in the competition phase i talked in my previous paragraph because of poor economic condition they faced in bangladesh then... ...... but the recent ones who have come from bangladesh are with an intention to destabalise Assam into probably a Muslim state with support form ISI, DGSI (Bangladesh) which is very dangerous for assamese community who is at present a divided lot.....divided on region, divided on religion, divided on caste, divided on languages, tribal/non tribe and what not..........guys must be thinking why this muslim guy is saying this........because terrorism and terrorist from outside though bred on religion, when in full swing they hit all.........watching the horrors of muslim fundamentalist Taliban rule is an example for the guys who supported them in afghanistan....we have own assamese example of badan barphukan........we may have to on our toes cause mayhem in afghanistan was done in just 6 or 7 years by those pakistani talibans
A SIMPLE, HUMBLE REQUEST HERE TO ALL......
Assam and assamese people have been divided by many people on various grounds like religion, caste, languages and what not..by politicians, religious leaders and many for their own social or political benefits or to settle some past personal egos.........
my single question is, is it good for Assamese society or not..if it is not good for us, then should we start a process for unification..by us the new generation....with messages of peace..friendly talks...try to make friends....this community has given such a good opportunity to know other assamese people whom we might not personally meet even may be in our entire life.with this forum we could so well make bondings and share our knowledge that we have got.
this is a forum to meet discuss and make friends..social networking ...I thing u guys must be knowing how the founder of Orkut, Orkut Buyukkoten, tried to locate his missing girlfriend and with Orkut and the network it provided he was able to track her finally after 3 years..
...let's try to avoid words or statements which could offend others..words are mightier than the swords.please have a thought before using any by thinking twice , is it going to hurt someone's feelings...will it hurt somebodys ego or sentiments..
(abusing words usually do that)
Let's try to appreciate others...
one phiilosophy that made the Japanese what they are now is...
If there is an issue, is there anything that i have done something wrong..
if yes, then it's my responsibility to make it right so that the issue is resolved at the earliest.
I request all to kindly think and propagate ideas and messages about how we could better the present condition of Assam and Assamese lot..how to make more brothers than scattering all with hatred...lets be brothers and friends..assamese are still a long way to be given admiration such as bengalis, tamilians or gujratis have already got...we have long long way to go...lets start n work towards it...
migration is a worldwide phenomena......and most of the countries and states have benefited out of it......why only we Assamese are suffering from it........
Are we as a community unfit to compete against the influx of people.....both physically and intellectually......if Darwins' theory is right that only the fittest survives then where we have to put assamese community? In ICU or Sick Bed?
lets forget the past and stay negative all the time........
try working towards solutions than analyzing all the same discussions which was 20-30 years old........
probable solutions are also seems to be clear........
focus on brightening the futures of our next generations.....focus to produce students with good education along with good moral ethics .....we who were unfortunate to have faced all the negatives have to try so that we donot pass the present situations as a legacy to our next generations.....this we would do if we are ourselves educated in true essence for which the word education stands......to have a broader outlook, to be able to predict the future and have the ability to change...change for better.....
we educated assamese lot orkutting here, lets join hands ....and try to work for the next generation than just creating controversies which helps none......
First why should we be afraid to admit that we are losers as the 10 years rule by ethnic assamese (if we can put AGP rule as such)that we can show to the world was a political disaster probably never seen before..mis governance, mis management, corruption of highest order..and sorry to say, the scene has not changed yet.
Tamilians, Bengali's, Gujratis and Punjabi communities have made so much of global presence..should not we analyze how they did it when we failed.......simply should we put it as govt gave them funds and gave nothing to Assam and hence we are backward...this way it would be like covering a grave mistake by putting a blame on others shoulders...why we failed to prosper when others prospered by staying inside India...isnt it a collective Assamese failure?
how after independence we as assamese have cared for our fellow assamese brothers can be seen in the 7 bifurcations that has happened with each tribal community coming out of assam for their better prospects....so bad the hatred for them towards us assmaese is "if we could see a mithun or Govinda coming to the help of the family in its time of crisis even after going out of it for some reason or not..in our Assam's case the Naga Manipuri, Mizo, Khasi brothers are lost for eternity.
Lets start taking the blame on us and try to cleanse our systems first.
.our work ethics (bandh cultures) first.
our own assamese peoples who are taking bribes from a fellow Assamese
.our low marking systems which makes it different to get good seats in premier institutes
...if somebody is using practical marks on whether the student has taken tuition with him or not criterias
our thought processes (appreciating Assamese successes, backing our own products, places etc..Bhupen da rarely sings these days and Jahnu Baruah does not want to make assamese films again..sad to say in a gathering of 200 people we could distribute only 27 assamese magazines with content on Assamese in Rongali Bihu in a get together at a place outside assam)
Kar besi labh hol baru aaji loike aei issuet?
eta kotha kintu thik......bhasa andolonor namot ajon manuh kintu khub unnoti (economically!!!) korile..
gutei india ki worlde jaane teur naam, konistha mukhya mantri buli........10bosoru paale rajpat..sompotti kimaan korile najanu..putekok bortomaan nomai aase politics ot....Assam politics ot sinta kihor......mod dilei dekabure kaam kori pelai.....bandh aadi kisumaan di base bonai lole aru doh baar maan jai aai Axom koi dile, kobo nuwari,puteku kunudin CM boni jabo paare....(Ajir minority assomiya communityt lekhot lobo logiya neta nu keijaan aase, aamar punakonei aamar borphukon buli jodi grahonio edin hoi jaai sinta koribologia eku naai)...ek xomoyor axomiya hiyar amothur putek buli aami sentimental axomiya khinik burbok bonaboloi budh hoi besi por nalagibo teur nisina xanghatik brainor manuh ajonok.
AAmi Axomiya manuhor nu ki..bhasa andolonot swahid hol hol aaru..mrityubarshiki palon korilei hol..sei chatro leader praktan mukhyamantri jonoro luck bhal....axomiyai ultai prosno nokorile, je bupa toi ki karone nu sarkar gothon korisili buli.....xosakoiye tekhet tu axomiya hiyar aamotho, bhasa andolonor xomoyot aru 2ta koi sarkar failure huwar pisoto..aru teur karjyo kromonika buru enekua je teur hey swahid sokolor logat punorai koifiyot diboloi prayujonu nohobo jodi "bhal kaam korile swarga paai aru beya korile narak paai" buli kuwa kothaxar xosa hoi.......swahid sokol tu swargote thakibo, aru swarga aru narak or majot saage bangladeshi assam borderor nisina par huar system nathakibo...gotike tekhet morileu Norokot safe..asomiya khini tu norokotu kajiya lagiye thakibo...muthote tekhet bhixon lucky fellow...BINDAas LIFE, FULL MASTI ....
kintu seriously bhabile dukh laage,axomiyai nu axomiyaar tej bolidaanor maan dhoribo nuwarile ne???....kimaanjon luk swahid hol, teulookor bolidaanor pora puwa rajpator kiba eta tu dhaar porixudh koribo laagisile, budhhoi taare xaau lagile teur.....nohole aaji tekhet asom buranjit amar hoi thakil heten..
...guys,carry on the debate...
why it should not be other way round?
Every society now faces problem of migration.......Assamese will kill biharis in Assam and Biharis will kill assamese in Bihar....this way where are we headed?
Its time we take some steps to bring Assamese jatyabhimaan in a positive and logical manner......lets try to analyze the threat ......why we assamese are lacking behind?in which fields?how could we make changes and try to bring assamese at par with others.....
why we have less representation in IIT's and IIM's?
why we donot have much guys getting into UPSC Exams?
why we donot crack bank exams?
there will be lots of such why's..........
the analysis part will give us shocking answers like
Our education system doesnot prepare us to face those exams (those assamese who pass are usually trained in Delhi only)
we lack good coaching institutions
we assamese are poor in analytical skills, scholastic aptitude, english competence, poor maths knowledge,lesser geographical knowledge, lesser general knowledge,lazy and lots and lots of answers like these
.......
why dont we think of searching answers to these and try solving these problems one by one......then no migratory community will remain a threat to us.......
Xatriya Culture -- could we promote it a bit more?
we have heard about Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva, his Ek shoron nam dharma, Xatras, xatriya dances, naam ghosas, ankiya nrityya, Bhaonas..........
dont you guys think if promoted well it could have helped assam into a spiritual tourism venue .......
I have seen assamese people visiting Tirupati to seek goddesh Venkateswara's blessings......have never heard people from outside assam moving to assam to visit a xatra for religious purpose....yes foreigners have come, to just research on the xatriyya culture or xatriyya dance.....
is it due to sankari culture not being propagated well to outside assam ?? One of my friend (a Mahanta) says the xatras operate on region basis and there is not much of a total united sankari leadership to take it forward to places like Srikrishna missions, or even the Art of living of Sri Ravi sankar type and hence it was not propagated to other parts of india.......like yoga being such a hit in the US and Europe and the Hare rama Hare Krishna theme of Srikrishna missions, our sankari culture could have been a major hit with the foreigners........
What do you guys think on that?? (to know more I am providing you two links)
links :
1) ht tp: //ww w. srimantasankaradevasangha.org/ introduction. htm ( please use by removing the blanks.......USUALLY links are deleted by orkut)
2) http://tourismassam.blogspot.com/2008/02/ srimanta-sankardevas-vaishnavism-xatras.html
Let me clarify the air about spiritual tourism and the commercial aspects........
people like to visit places for spiritual needs .....when a place is visited, people require amenities in that place......to stay, to eat....they require amenities for travel etc.......
and thats where the local people in that place gets benefited.......by starting hotels, lodges, restaurants and even pan dukaans........more travel will create more avenues for autowalas, taxiwalas etc........
The more the tourist flow to a place suppose Majuli....more people can think of starting hotels, lodges there.....unemployed youth can think of owning autos and taxis if the earnings are sure.......even small paan duikaanis can prosper........
Presently the flow of tourism is intra-Assam by assamese local people and a few researchers from abroad.........
If you visit the place Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh you can surely appreciate what spiritual tourism can do to a rural place.........even educational institutions, medical facilities have come up in that place from the trust there.........
Spiritualism is there in the right place, people are getting what they require.......the commercial aspects of that visit benefits the whole areas economics.......
Thats why i thought as a concept, Xatriya culture do have a tremendous potential to propagate spiritualism for the western people who are so much eager to take yogas and meditations due to the stressful condition they live in due to the hire & fire culture that exists in Western countries......and in that promotion Assam's economics can get a boost.....
I have read abot that too Nilanjan da.......hopefully Sattriya Culture will still keep its glorious days intact and would only propagate more.......
an ad by Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region towards LTC Allowances of central govt employees to visit Northeast is being started:
http://www.indiaenews.com/business/20080116/91964.htm
Good tourism initiative from the Govt......appreciable indeed......
Could xatriya culture be highlighted towards these new visitors.....so that Majuli, Barpeta etc are visited..........otherwise it would be......Kaziranga, sivasagar, Shillong and Tawang.........we need to promote more places.........
Asomiya Bon dorob (traditional herbal medicine)
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Mofid Rahman
Asomiya Bon dorob (traditional herbal medicine)
For my blog i was searching for traditional assamese herbal medicine and found a few......
I felt these might still be beneficial to someone and hence m posting it here.....However it is advised that people consult physicians for their ailments....
Any botanist here in this community,who could provide me some more info about these?
Plant species
Family
Vernacular (assamese) name
Part used
Application
1 Ageratum conyzoides Linn.
Compositae
Gondhuabon
Leaves/ Roots
The juice is used in cut or injuries. It has healing properties.
2 Alternanthera sessilis R. Br.
Amaranthaceae
Matikaduri
Leaves
Juice used for growth of hair and stomach trouble. Given to mother to increase the flow of milk after birth.
3 Amaranthus spinosus Linn.
Amaranthaceae
Hatikhutora
Roots/ Stems
Used as antidote against snakebite, given to cow to increase the flow of milk, root is good for menorrhagia, gonorrhea.
4 Amaranthus viridis
Linn. Amaranthaceae
Khutora
Stem/ Leaves
Stem is used as antidote against snakebite. Leaves good against scorpion sting.
5 Argemone maxicana
Linn. Papaverceae
Sialkatahi
Roots/ Seeds
Used in leprosy, scabies, and syphilis, in gonorrhea. Seed smoke in toothache and carriage.Oil is used as purgative and illuminating. Seed latex is used in dropsy, jaundice, cuta-neous affections, healing of ulcers, herpes, skin diseases. Also used as antidote against snakebite.
6 Argyreia speciosa Sweet.
Convolvulaceae
Takoria alu
Leaves/ Tuber
Paste of the leaves, latex is used in small boil to suppress. Tuber is contraceptive. Also used in skin diseases.
7 Artemisia vulgaris
Linn. Compositae
Chirota
Leaves
Juice as blood purifier.Used against worm troubles, asthmatics trouble, brain disorder and nervous affections.
8 Asparagus racemosus Willd
Liliaceae
Satamul
Roots
Roots are used as demulcents; diuretic, prepared medicated oil is good for rheumatic pain, nervous disorder. Also useful in dyspepsia, diarrhea and dysentery.
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9 Bonnaya reptans Spreng
Scrophulariaceae
Kasidoria
Leaves
Roasted leaves in banana leaves are used for cold bite and cut injuries.
10 Bryophyllum pinnatum Kuntz.
Crassulaceae
Dupartenga
Leaves
Leaves are useful in wounds, bruises, boils, jaundice, snakebite, dysentery, urinary trouble and quick healing of wounds.
11 Calotropis gigantean (L) R.Br.
Asclepidaceae
Akon
Roots/leaves/ flower
Heated leaves are in sprain and pain. Flowers are considered as digestive remedy for cough, asthma, and cold. Root bark is used in dysentery; cough, skin disease, cutaneous affection, and elephantiasis. Juice as purgative and good for tooth ace.
12 Cannabis sativa Linn.
Cannabinaceae
Bhang
Leaves/ flower
Dried flower used medicinally as sedative, analgesic, nacrotic.
13 Capsella larsa-pastoris Medic.
Brassicaceae
Gonga moola
Seed
Seed oil is used as anti-scorbutic in dropsy. Used as astringent in diarrhea, and as diuretic in dropsy.
14 Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn.
Sapindaceae
Lota kopalphuta
Whole plant
The whole plant is made paste with water and rubbed to relief pain, stiff-neck, rheumatism,fever, piles. Leaves mixing with castor oil applied to lumbago,nervous disorder.
15 Cassia occidentalis linn.
Leguminasae
Medelwa
Roots/ leaves/ flowers
Leaves, roots flowers are good remedy for hysteria. Externally used in coetaneous disease. Roots are diuretic. Leaves are used as a remedy for dyspepsia, nervous disorder, itches, ringworm and skin diseases.
16 Cassia tora Linn.
Leguminasae
Bon medelwa
Roots/ leaves
Leaves paste is used against ring worm and eczema. Decoction of leaves and flowers is externally used for bronchitis and asthma. Roots antidote against snakebite.
17 Catharanthus roseus
Apocynaceae
Nayantara
Roots/leaves
The parts of plant are used as anti-carcinogenic agent.
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18 Centella asiatica (L) Urban
Umbeliferae
Bor manimuni
Whole plant The whole plant has medicinal properties, used in dysentery, liver trouble, nerve disorder, and stomach problem and induces appetite, taken with milk to improve memory, good for skin disease and a blood purifier, given to women after childbirth.
19 Clerodendron infortunatum Gaertn.
Verbenaceae
Dhopat tita
Roots/leaves
Leaves can be used against malarial fever. Roots are used externally against tumors
and skin disease.
20 Clitoria ternatea
Leguminasae
Aparajita
Leaves
Juice of leaves mixed with salt applied around ears in earache and swelling of adjacent gland to relive pain. Juice antidote against snake poison.
21 Coffea bengalensis
Roxb. Rubiaceae
Kothonaphool
Leaves
Young shoots and leaves used as medicine for cattle eye boil.
22 Colocasia esculanta (L)
Araceae
Kochu
Leaves/ roots
Leaves used for blood coagulation in small injuries, roots used in pharyngitis.
23 Commelina bengalensis Linn
Commelinaceae
Kana simolu
Roots Juice is applied in eye-lid sore. Roots are useful in fever, bilious affection and snakebite, leprosy.
24 Datura stramonium
Linn. Solanaceae
Dhatura
Roots/leaves/ seeds
Smoke of leaves is used medicinally for asthma. A seed causes sleepiness. Poisonous and necrotic. Roots is good for toothache.
25 Drymaria cordata willd.
Caryophyllaceae
Laijabori
Whole plant
Juice of the plant is laxative and anti febrile. The plant has cooling property.
26 Eclipta alba
Hassk. Compositae
Kehraj
Leaves/ roots
It is believed that the herb taken internally and applied externally blackens hair. Fresh leaves are used in elephantiasis, affection of liver and dropsy. A type of hair tonic is produced from it. Juice is also used for jaundice and fever.
27 Eclipta postrata (L) Bhangra
Compositae
Kehraj
Leaves/ roots
Same as E. alba
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28 Erechthites valerianaefolia DC.
Compositae
Bon kopah
Leaves
Juice of the leaves is used to cut wounds for quick healing.
29 Erygnium foetidum
Linn. Umbeliferae
Man dhania
Leaves
An aromatic herb used as a condiments in soups, meat etc.
30 Eupatorium odoretum Linn.
Compositae
Germanhabi
Leaves/ Flowers
Leaves and flower tops are used medicinally as emetic, cathartic, in cut wounds.
31 Euphorbia hirta
Linn. Euphorbiaceae
Dudh bon
Whole plant
The entire plant is considered as sedative, haemostatic, sop orphic, used medicinally in asthma, chronic bronchitis. The milky juice is useful in destroying warts.
32 Euphorbia thymifolia Linn.
Euphorbiaceae
Dudh bon
Whole plant
Same as E. hirta
33 Gymnopetalum Cucurbitaceae
Kawri korola
Roots
Roots made into paste and rubbed on body in body pain.
34 Hedyotis lineate
Roxb Rubiaceae
Kasidoia
Roots
Root juice is used against pneumonia.
35 Heliotropium indicum
Linn. Boraginaceae
Hatisuriya
Whole plant
The juice of the plant is used in ulcers, wounds and local inflammation. Leaves paste is used against insect bite and boils.
36 Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Roxb.
Umbeliferae
Sorumanimuni
Whole plant
The whole plant has medicinal properties, used in dysentery, liver trouble, nerve disorder, and
stomach problem and induces appetite, taken with milk to improve memory, good for skin
disease and a blood purifier,given to women after childbirth.
37 Impatiens roylei
Walp Baslaminaceae
Bijolkoria
Leaves/ fruits
Leaf and fruit paste is used on head as a remedy in high fever.
38 Ipomea aquatica
Covolvulaceae
Pani kolmou
Leaves
Leaves juice is used in jaundice, also used in urinary trouble and nervous hindrance.
39 Ipomea quamoclit
Linn. Covolvulaceae
Kunjalata
Leaves
Pounded leaves are used in piles.
40 Justicia japonica
Linn. Acanthaceae
Jooron
Leaves
Leaves are used in ophthalmia.
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Mofid Rahman
41 Jussiaea suffruticosa
Linn. Onagraceae
Bon jolokia
Whole plant
Used in dysentery and fever.
42 Leucas aspera
Labiatae
Duron bon
Whole plant
Used against rabies, leaves juice with garlic are good in Stomach,liver, spleen etc.
43 Melastroma malabathricum Linn.
Melastomaceae
Phutuka
Leaves
Leaf powder is used in wound portion to prevent mark in skin;wood tar is used in for blackening teeth.
44 Mikania micrantha Linn.
Linn. Compositae
Japanihabi
Leaves/ roots
Juice is useful in insect bite and scorpion sting.
45 Mimosa pudica Linn.
Linn. Leguminasae
Lajukilata
Leaves
Leaf juice with milk is used as a good remedy for piles.
46 Mirabilis jalapa Linn.
Linn. Nyctaginaceae
Godhuligopal
Roots
Roots are used in dropsy.
47 Nasturtium indicum DC.
Brassicaceae
Bonhariah
Seed
Seed juice is used in Kidney trouble.
48 Ocimum canum Sims
Labiatae
Bon tulsi
Leaves
Leaves made into paste applied to the fingers to relieve from fever. Seed are used as remedy for dysentery. Leaves used in skin disease.
49 Ocimum gratissimum Linn.
Labiatae
Bon tulsi
Whole plant
Plant juice is used as insect repellent. Seed used in headache. Leaves are used in for gonorrhea,
rheumatism and paralysis.
50 Oldenlandia corymbosa Linn.
Rubiaceae
Bon jaluk
Whole plant
Juice applied in burning sensation of palms, juice is good for liver trouble, urinary disorder in children, jaundice, fever and bilious infection.
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51 Oxalis corniculata Linn.
Oxalidaceae
Sorutengesi
Whole plant
Juice is used in stomach problem, used in intoxication of wine, used in dysentery.
52 Paederia fotida
Linn. Rubiaceae
Bhebelilata
Leaves
Plant is very good in stomach, kidney and liver problems.Decoction of leaves increase
appetite.
53 Peperomia pelludica H.BandK
Piperaceae
Ponownoa
Leaves/ roots
Plant paste is used on head to reduce temperature.
54 Phylanthus niruri Linn.
Euphorbiaceae
Bon amlokhi
Whole plant
Whole plant is used in jaundice. Young leaves are good for dysentery. Root juice is used in
urino-genital troubles and gonorrhea.
55 Pouzolzia indica Gaud.
Urticaceae
Dudhmor goch
Whole plant
Used against snakebite, convalescence of children, syphilis, gonorrhea.
56 Ricinnus communis Linn.
Euphorbiaceae
Era
Leaves/ roots
Roots are used in urinary trouble; juice with lime is used to suppress newly formed boils.
57 Siegesbekia orientalis Linn.
Compositae
Katampam
Whole plant
Used in healing gangrenous ulcers and skin disease. Useful against worms.
58 Solanum indicum
Solanaceae
Tita bhekuri
Roots/ leaves
Roots are used to cure toothache, Asthma and in cough.
59 Solanum nigrum Linn.
Solanaceae
Pokmou
Roots
Roots juice is used against asthma and whooping cough.
60 S. xanthocarpum
Solanaceae
Kantakori
Roots/ leaves
Roots are used in asthma and in chest pain. Leaves juice with black peeper used in rheumatic pain.
61 Urena lobata Linn.
Malvaceae
Bor sonborial
Roots/ leaves
Roots are diuretic, good in rheumatic pain.
62 Xanthium strumarium Linn.
Compositae
Agora
Roots/ leaves
Used against long standing malarial fever, urinary trouble
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There are several methods by which the people prepare the medicines. Sometimes the
different parts of the plant and sometimes the whole plant is being crushed and the juice is used as medicine and sometimes the decoction, smoke, powder or seed oil is used as medicine. The herbal treatment is said to be very much effective by them and the sustainable extraction of the medicinal plants from the wildlife is an indicative of their dependence on wild plants from their age old interaction.
(Special thanks to Mithun Sikdar and Uzzal Dutta for their research in this field.)
Could some body enlighten me about any other such herbal medicines found in Assam?
Could assam be a herbal medicine joint in future as medical tourism is on the rise???
Apr 30
bh@sk@r.....আইলৈ
let me add some more......
63.Momordica charantia
Tita kerela
leaf
useful remedy for diebetic
64. phlogacanthus thyrsiflorus
tita phool
flower
for worm
65. Adhatoda zeylanica
Bahok tita
leaf
for cough
66 Clerodendrum infortunatum
bhedai tita
stem
melaria.
67. Enhydra fluctuans
helosi
leaf
skin desease
68. Diplazium esculentum
dhekia
leaf
to enhance sexual power..
69. clerodendrum colebrookianum
nefafu
bud/leaf
to control high blood pressure
Hey Arun, words are few to express my thanks.......you pointed a very good authentic question .......I am not a doctor and got those only through internet while searching information for my blog tourismassam.blogspot.com.And i have advised all to consult physicians b4 using these.
-----my google search led me to this.............................
Epidemic Dropsy is an acute toxic disease which was recognised in 1877, when it appear¬ed as an epidemic outbreak in Calcutta. How¬ever this drew the attention of ophthalmologi¬sts only in 1909 when Maynard' reported occurrence of Glaucoma in cases of Epidemic Dropsy.
It is well established that contamination of the cooking oil with seeds of Argemona maxi¬cana is the cause of this toxic state. The toxity was due to Sanguinarine Hydrochloride-an alkaloid of Benzphenanthrine subgroup of isoquinoline group isolated from oil of Argemone maxicana.
Mode of action of sanguinarine is not clear¬ly understood. It appears to depress the action of sympathetic stimulation and of adrenaline. It also decreases to some extent the action of acetyl choline. It is also thought that sanguinarine in Epidemic Dropsy blocks the sulph¬hydryl radical of main enzyme (co-ASH) re¬sponsible for pyruvate oxidation, thereby increasing the amount of pyruvate in blood.
Pathologically sanguinarine hydrochloride gives rise to dilatation and engorgement of capillaries in various tissues of the body. Gross capillary dilatation is seen in the uveal tract particularly in the cilliary body.
25 clinically proved cases of Epidemic Dropsy were studied in an outbreak in June¬July 1980. All of them belonged to Bengali Colony of Itarsi town of Madhya Pradesh, which was the only affected area. Bengalis who mainly consume mustard oil (which easily gets contaminated with the seeds of Argemone maxicana) suffered from this disease, while the rest of the city population remained unaffected. Oil samples taken from some of the affected families were positive for the presence of sanguinarine.
I earnestly request people to consult a registered physician before using these traditional medicine. I found this during my research to find assamese traditional medicine for my blog and just wanted people to know about these and
"NOT WITH THE INTENTION OF MAKING PEOPLE USE THEM WITHOUT PROPER MEDICAL CONSULTATION."
More info on Argemone mexicana
Argemone mexicana (Mexican Poppy, Mexican Prickly Poppy or Cardosanto) is a species of poppy found in Mexico and now widely naturalized in the United States, India and Ethiopia. An annual herb with bright yellow sap, it has been used by the Natives of the western US and parts of Mexico. The seed-pods secrete a pale-yellow latex substance when cut open. This argemone resin contains berberine and protopine, and is used medicinally as a sedative.
The seeds contain 22–36% of a pale yellow non-edible oil, called argemone oil or katkar oil, which contains the toxic alkaloids sanguinarine and dihydrosanguinarine. Surprisingly, the oil is used to grease the cooking plate to bake the injera in Ethiopia. The seeds resemble the seeds of Brassica nigra (mustard). As a result, mustard can be adulterated by argemone seeds, rendering it poisonous. The oil itself is used medicinally to treat dropsy, jaundice and skin diseases. Katkar oil poisoning causes epidemic dropsy, with symptoms including extreme swelling, particularly of the legs. Several significant instances of katkar poisoning have been reported in India, Fiji, South Africa and other countries. The last major outbreak in India occurred in 1998. 1% adulteration of mustard oil by argemone oil has been shown to cause clinical disease.
This plant and extract there from is also sold online as an herbal marijuana alternative. Argemone mexicana is also used by traditional healers in Mali to treat malaria.
aamar officor example eta diu........aamar office boy tue aamar February maahor electricity bill tu pay korisil e-seva officot.....e-seva operatore entry korute bhulote G4XXXXX soloni O4XXXXXX buli entry korat aamar payment beleg accountot gusi gol.......Electricity lineman edin ohaat aamak kole aagor payment akou repay nokorile line katidim buli.......aami aamar payment xerox dekhauteo kole je eitu sihote eko koribo nuware aru e-sevar pora account kheli mili thik korute 3maah maan lagibo buli.....100 toka eta di dile sob hi nijey thik koridim buli kole.......aamar management eu kole di diya jaouk........mur mone namanile aru eta complaint letter pothai dilu e-seva officoloi je aami teulookor khelilmilir karone unnecessary problem face koribo logiya hoise.......manager jone logalog electricty accounts akhonoloi bhul tu maani letter ekhon di dile aru aami akou sei payment dibo loga nohol ....aru tinimaahor kaam tu edinotei thik hoi gol......
vindeor license ekhon renewalor amudjonak kotha etau monat ase.....teu ahibo nuwarat mukei disil renew koraboloi, guwahatit 2000 sonor kotha.....aru koisil ane manuhar renewal korile, 100 toka loi aru ONGC employeer hole 150 toka loi chah tamul khaboloi.....may mahot officor karma korta ejonok jacket pindhi thoka bhabi asorit hoisilu...teu sokolu renewarok logat loi sukot jaai poisa loi aru jacket ot poisa sumaai...sign mora baideu gorakie licenseot sign morar agote nijor tableor drawer tu khuli diye, taat poisa porilei signature tu kori die DUBUSOROR karone(exactly abosoror he renewal hoi).......mur aita dhukuar khaboror karone moi eta obituary diboloi sei somoyat laagi thokat ghoror manuhur logat sei officetur porai kotha pati asilu...moi assam tribune aru beleg beleg pressor kotha khub paati asilu phonot sidina...sei jacket pindha manuh jon e muk kera kerikoi saale aru moi ohaar aage aage baideu gorakir logat kotha patile.......mur vindeur license khon bina poisat renew korile ebosoeor karone.......
Anti corruption kisumaan strategy bonabo paari neki:-)
maar pit nakhau buli, kaam xunkaale houk buli aami aaji kali kisumaan beya kamoke prosroi di asu nohoi jaanu?
aamar xahox bur komi goise neki? change koribo nuwaru buliyei aami har mani goisu neki?
ane kisumaan prosno mur mogojot enei khelimeli kori thake :-) uttar hi bisari puwa naai :-)
we have arrived or dissappeared ???
Assamese people(NOT ALL, I REPEAT NOT ALL, may be 80%) are very socially active people..(Like the punjabis in US, though they still keep their punjabi culture intact)...We can take anything from any culture..we mix like water.....We need to show off that yes we are rich and belong to the rich society we are in outside assam....to remember our culture we have two bihus yaar...and that we can observe having drinking parties in some public joints offcourse with some hindi songs like the way Zubeen did in Bangalore......(he was bought (yes not brought, but bought) by Radio Mirchi that day in the name of Bihu...and we care nothing about whats going on and the need to mixing with our fellow people from neighbourhood whom others might assume to be poor...Should we need to care, NO, nO NEED.GODDAMN, WHO CARES !!!OUR IMAGE IS everything..we are rich and we have arrived. Period.
You can see my "yaar", "GODDAMN" word in the previous paragraph...it is taken as we have taken "naa", "re", "kewl"(for coool :-) ), "yeps", "Nope", and what not...arre we have taken Bangladeshis as our own and are not bothered about it till we get a minority report which will see pure assamese speaking population is at 10-15% in total assam (the report has to be from BBC offcourse...we believe in global reporting agencies ONLY)...very posh isn't it?
we are going global and want to stay global..we will buy flats there and will one fine day sell off our properties in Assam..so what to care..about Assam..where we have taken birth..where we had our education..about our Roots? comon, this things really doesnot matter..doesnot matter at all..
If i look sarcastic, i m sorry i apologize..but the main focus is we are a socially active people who are very good at losing our own identity to get our 5 minutes of fame with the aliens even by showing how quickly we can adapt like a chameleon though they may laugh at us after we leave..as said earlier, for our own culture we have two days, Magh Bihu and the Bohag Bihu, to say Jai aai Axom
My land bleeds.......No solution/effort in sight
One of my friend gave this link to share this news...
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1352780
....I was stunned.....knew that we had violence but didnot knew that it had reached such a proportion that we have overtaken Kashmir in terror deaths.......How could Kashmir scenario is being handled so that normalcy seems to be restoring slowly???.....Punjab was calmed and is now one of the progressive states in India......Kashmir seems to be slowly returning to normalcy where the situation is much worse and complicated than Assam...then why Assam situation is going the downhill???
why??
why??
why??
Terrorism in punjab was decimated with
1)strong hands followed by the armed forces so that terrorism is controlled with the elimination of the terrorist
2) agricultural reforms to get more productivity out of the agricultural fields so that more youth can concentrate on them to get steady employment
3)Industrialization to create more jobs for the youth
The khalistan movement was slowed down due to more and more youth getting employment in agriculture and other industries.......at present world money economics is what makes or breaks society...children and Old people will not root for terrorism.......Its the youth who becomes terrorist when they stay idle...terrorism is based on ideologies.......in Kashmir and Punjab it is about religion and independence.......In Assam though it was on independence now it is a kind of job avenue for the youth who donot have anything else to do due to unemployment as well as low level of education..
How to improve the condition then.
a BPO Industry in Assam can help.....but will it really solve this problem ??How many youth would benefit from the villages??
would more vocational training from class 7th onward help resolve this issue??...in villages our youth could hardly afford education after class 10th......
Flood issue also happens to bring in poverty to some of the villagers ......it worsens the economic condition of the ones who have a bit prospered......
Youth rural entrepreneurship if encouraged with incentives can have a great impact in generating employment........diary farms, pig farms, horticulture, sericulture do have enough potential in Assam.....what it needs is some boost from these departments and awareness at rural ends.....at present it seems these department officials are busy in their a/c offices...we need a rural reachout programmes from them.....at consitent basis......e-governance if purported well might bridge the gap......
Educational and agricultural reform coupled with a sprinkle of industrialization might help here
educational reform wise we need to think on two agendas...........
vocational training
English language
since it is a terrorism hit poverty stricken area, so to change the pattern, reforms has to be a bit out of the box........
how to make youth more suitable for employment.......our youth mainly fail in Maths and english in the school levels...how to make them improve in this subjects?
and if they can afford to study till maximum 10th class then how to make the education beneficial to them so that even after studying till 10th they can get employment.......we require inputs from economists, social scientists and educationists here......
Dhemaji's detail
MP: Dr Arun Sharma (AGP)
MLA:Sumitra Pati Doley (Cong 1st time MLA--Previously held by Dilip Saikia Sonowal (AGP) for 4times)
Karimganj
Could you visualize a person ? From Congress....a vetarn in Union Cabinet from Barak Valley....I think you guys got it...............Santosh Mohan Dev.....need i say anything more......
If it has to shift to Dhemaji then
a) either name it Rajiv/Indira/Rahul/ Sonia Gandhi institute of Engineering and technology
or
b) NRI's from dhemaji need to pull their weight.........
no effective backers for this cause............congress have nothing to gain there......No class 1 contractor would want to start a project where there is danger of flood...
Well done Santosh Mohan Dev !!!!
Hope I am wrong and there are some logistical, logical and social reasons behind the location being put up at Karimganj......
Your (the Gen-next) career comes first !!
exactly......i repeat, this activity we all are doing in our FREE TIME as a way of giving something back to assam .....
For the students, i will again remind them of Saranga Sir's words to keep your education as your first and topmost priority........Ne, tumaluke Saranga siror pora gaali khabo o logote aamaku gaali khuwabo khujisa :-)
Bhal dore porikha di lua, taar pisot free time khinit ki ki help lagibo aami jonam tumak....
Aami aamar dadaburor dore tumalukor baabe nobhoba nohai...Ulta aami tumalukor bhal eta bhavissator karone he bhabisu..tumaluke bhal result kori aamak sohoi kora khali......
Orkut logout kori Kitab mela !!!!...nohole online siriponi use koribo lagibo jen paisu
:-) :-)
@ Mrinzy
I have one request to you................
show them what an assamese is capable of with your sincere dedicated, smart and quality work so that your boss asks you one day, "do you have any more Mrinzys in Assam to join us in Chennai".......
keep your chin up, Bro......we are the ambassadors of our ownland in foreign lands!!So always keep in mind that what you do will project all assamese....if you do succeed then glory will be for all assamese and similarly the negative way round........
I will tell you an example, We have a shopping Mall in Hyderabad called Hyderabad Central.....A manipuri guy had done so well there that because of him, even though a assamese Mahanta guy who doesnt know local telegu language nor could speak fluent hindi or English was taken by the Lady HR there with the hope that he too would be a hard worker as a northeastern guy.Then after three months,where our Mahanta bupa with atleast 5-6 days of leaves in each month applied for 20 days leave to go to Assam to attend a friends marriage and fakely applied leave for attending to his ailing mother and the truth came out,the same HR lady sacked him and told him that she would never take a Mahanta or Assamese in Hyderabad Central again........( I pity for any oriyan having Mahanta as their surname and facing the same lady in interview in future).......
...i think i have passed you the message......best wishes.....
keeping a blank mind with the context of the circumstances, lets just analyse.
the question is
"where you are from or where guwahati/Assam is?"
what should be our answer:
a guy may ignore or counter answer like one of our friend did.......great....but will that enlighten him about assam?......will that stop him from asking the same question to another assamese again?? Neil I know your response was like a tit for tat slap.....but as an assamese i expect you and all who have faced such humiliation to respond with an even bigger slap than you administered him with those words.......
what would be an ideal response.......
I feel we should bombard him with so much information about assam that whenever he sees an mongoloid figure, Assam should come automatically into his mind.......
let's know our assam better first !! I also had a humiliating experience in Orkut itself about Assam and made sure the guy apologize for pointing fingers at assam.......check it out......
Look's like Assamis are not friendly
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=5840841&tid=2580925994442630748&na=1&nst=1
I agree it was my fault !!!
I still feel myself as the culprit as i should have answered him earlier....but the problem was i myself did not had total information regarding my own culture..i thought somebody else would reply and everybody else was busy with their works..I admit, it's totally my fault........I have to research myself to showcase a proper picture of assamese culture to a visitor......i would like to thank Kamran for provoking me into that and now i have atleast some kind of through knowledge about assam, assamese culture, assamese places (all round..about places which i was myself unaware prior to that post in west assam and south assam)..........
infact i would also like to take this post again to let others also know more about assam through my blog which i created so that we could answer thoroghly any queries raised by a guest/ foreigner about assam/assamese culture/assamese literature/assamese film industry(jollywood)/ bhramyaman theatres, xatriya culture/ etc........
tourismassam.blogspot.com
I still feel sorry to have let a outsider point fingers on Assamese...
if we are courageous enough to take up blames then we can think of improving the problems/unfriendly situations.......
blame games only bring negative vibes......no solutions.......
Japanese prospered because of this mentality..
..for any mistakes try to find out was there any mistake on my front..
.if yes, how to correct myself.....
Very simple philosophy, but needs tremendous courage and patience on an individual to own up responsibilities for any wrong that has happened.....the correction part is easier once you are brave enough to admit your fault, isn't it?
yes.... BSF reminds me of assamese presence !!many assamese are there....
otherwise
business in assam are not done by ethnic assamese !!
others (guys from assam though from Hailakandi, badarpur, silchar, karimganj are working on top echelon of Marketing and sales jobs in Assam for the MNC's (many might not know about this at all) and they use some unique assamese similar to bangla but not exactly bangla......(their root syelhet though in bangladesh was in assam earlier).....some assamese are good helpers, even they say so ...i heard one term in a Pepsi meeting about these assamese helpers ..."Jacka**".....
may lawyers belong to that part...i think...a census might prove me right or wrong.....i will be glad if i am wrong.......
our hairs are cut by people who go to their places from time to time from Assam
petty works are done by those miyas whom Indiara Gandhi brought, got glorified and then forgot about them and assam at the same time......comon..people are concerned about the lavish party or get together, who cares about the waste left thereafter.....sweepers might clean it up...both the waste and the place....the place will be green again, isn't it?these are times of Ecotourism isn't it?
we could just smile like boman irani in munnabhai MBBS.....cause in anger, laughter therapy is a good help..or else you might burst out.......
Saturday, June 7, 2008
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