prabasiboy
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BIDESHI HATAO
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04/16/05 at 03:21:16 » |
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This is in response to the discussion regarding the book : The point of return. I read the book - It is a nice work and I relate to it very well. I grew up in that time.
I am not chauvinistic but one grudge I could never let go is my feeling of anger towards the anti-bengali attitudes that raised its ugly head in the late seventies and continuing in to the late eighties. I always mourn the loss of one golden academic year in the 1980 because of some AASU goons who tue to their low IQ hijacked the whole of our state. They wanted to throw out millions of bangladeshis (read bangals) but at the end acheived nothing. They betrayed their own people, made sure Assam remains outcast from the national mainstream for next two decades. Idiots always have morons as friends and the frenzy spread to all the NE states - Mr. Deb describes this well in his book.
I think at the end the indigent people lost a lot - good will at the least. |
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prabasiboy
prabasiboy
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Re: BIDESHI HATAO
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04/16/05 at 07:26:35 » |
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How unfortunate irt is for the bengalee popultion living in Barak valley and rest of Assam to become hated and loathed in their own country and locality. I spent the days of assam agitation in Guwahati and as a bengli teenager was so afraid to find out that I am not supposed to talk in my own tongue. Any assameese boy could at will assault me and get away with it. I still have bad dreams about those mashaal demostartions and picketings. They use to shout ei jui jalise and jlaib - the fire ultimately faded out but after extarcting it s cost. Assam could have been a prime state in the Indian union - I think the Assam agitation sunk that hope for many decades to come. It was the extreme example of self-defeating purposeless mass arousal and frenzy.
the AASU and Asom gana sangram, parisod are two organization will never be pardoned by bengalis of that era. |
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i_am_amnesiac
i_am_amnesiac
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Re: BIDESHI HATAO
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05/16/05 at 15:20:22 » |
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why that era? till date a deep hatred runs in the blood veins of the comparatively inferior assamese populace against us as they cannot beat us on merits.
only recently the same aasu goons ransacked the office of airtel and assaulted the senior mangement staffs. so much for industrial development of assam. khar khuwas will remain khar khuwas and never become enlightened. |
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kigoobe
kigoobe
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Re: BIDESHI HATAO
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05/16/05 at 16:17:33 » |
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Babare ... oto bidwesh ni ba mono !!!! :o |
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bangal
Debajit
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Re: BIDESHI HATAO
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05/19/05 at 12:39:44 » |
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Arey beshi din na, ou 1993 t ami geslam Guwahati t, baba r logey. City bus o uthia jairaam. Ek bangali mohila y ekta chhele re koila je tui baba soria dara ekta , ghosha ghoshi koris na. Baap re baap, ulta je pickup loilo, aar sara bus er KHARU itay tarey support korlo. Koy kita "bongali toi iyar pora ja.." maney tumrar jaygat tumra jao. Mono hoisil nani ek chorr martam. Kita kormu, pura bus er logey mair to korte partam na.. |
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debasish_ch
debasish_ch
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Re: BIDESHI HATAO
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05/20/05 at 03:20:33 » |
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I have stayed in Guwahati for so long (16 years), and ever since have always been living as a minority somewhere or the other. I have always felt that if the minority population could give up their reservations and mix up with the mainstream, than a lot of hatred and ill will could sublimate.
Quite true, that the mainstream also needs to encourage the outsiders, but putting the blame on the natives is not always correct. The concept of 'Son of the soil' exists everywhere in the world, the sooner we come to terms with it, the better it is for us. Only if bengalis of guwahati (and rest of assam) could stop colonizing themselves in the guise of being true to their clan, the hatred could have been avoided to a large extent.
I for myself, have seldom found myself at the receiving end of any abuses directed at my lineage, but do know people who have not been as fortunate.
Still, I guess we are a bit harsh when we speak about it. We somehow fail to realize that the non-hindu religions in India might also feel as attacked as bengalis were in assam... the sole reason being we always alientaed ourselves.
PS: My heart always bleeds for someone who has been at the receiving end of racial injustice, be it the Bengalis of Guwahati and Shillong, or the Jews of Eastern Europe. |
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