………"Watch NEWS. There is a serial bomb blast in Assam". Got a call around 11:40 on 30th October from a friend. I was stunned. I never expected that, there can be a serial bomb blast in Assam also. What a horrible sight. Cars and bikes were burning. Injured people are running for help. Everywhere you can see ambulance and police vans. I was trying to call my parents and relatives, but mobile network was also jammed. For sometime I felt like a helpless man who can’t do anything.
What was the fault of those innocent men and women, who lost their life or struggling for life in hospitals? Why government need an incident like this to wake up? Why always we need to sacrifice some people to bring notice to our problems? Everybody knows the astronomical rate of population increase in some of the districts in Assam. Why are they talking about this only now? Even now it is not sure how seriously they are taking this problem. It is not for the first time that we lost so many people, before we convince the policy makers that there is something wrong happening in Assam.
………I was very young, when the famous Assam Agitation was in full showing. It started in 1979 and for the next 4 years government did nothing to solve the problem. But when there was large number of loss of lives in 1983, government took the agitation seriously and called the leaders of agitation for negotiation in 1985. I don’t know about other states of India but in case of Assam we always have to sacrifice large numbers of innocent lives before we can bring the problem to the notice of the policy makers.
Nobody wants another agitation in Assam. Nobody wants another roadblock to our development. We have enough of them. We are still recovering from loss we got from those agitations. We just want to live in peace. But we don’t want loss of innocent lives also.
We want outside world to recognize us as the ‘Land of Red River and Blue Hills’ not as the ‘Land of Agitations and Bandhs’.
What was the fault of those innocent men and women, who lost their life or struggling for life in hospitals? Why government need an incident like this to wake up? Why always we need to sacrifice some people to bring notice to our problems? Everybody knows the astronomical rate of population increase in some of the districts in Assam. Why are they talking about this only now? Even now it is not sure how seriously they are taking this problem. It is not for the first time that we lost so many people, before we convince the policy makers that there is something wrong happening in Assam.
………I was very young, when the famous Assam Agitation was in full showing. It started in 1979 and for the next 4 years government did nothing to solve the problem. But when there was large number of loss of lives in 1983, government took the agitation seriously and called the leaders of agitation for negotiation in 1985. I don’t know about other states of India but in case of Assam we always have to sacrifice large numbers of innocent lives before we can bring the problem to the notice of the policy makers.
Nobody wants another agitation in Assam. Nobody wants another roadblock to our development. We have enough of them. We are still recovering from loss we got from those agitations. We just want to live in peace. But we don’t want loss of innocent lives also.
We want outside world to recognize us as the ‘Land of Red River and Blue Hills’ not as the ‘Land of Agitations and Bandhs’.
2 comments:
Hey..Nabajyoti..u rock!!! Didn't know the graphic expert who sits behind me in the office is a great writer too!!keep up the good work!!
i have seen him always next to editing table. really nice piece add very true
"Nobody wants another roadblock to our development. We have enough of them. We are still recovering from loss we got from those agitations. We just want to live in peace."
i wrote on the same event:http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.com/2008/11/we-are-progressing-at-what-cost.html
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