Few days back my parents went to my younger brother's place (Jorhat, Assam). As summer vacation was going on, they stayed with him for around 15 days and returned before my mother's school reopened. Most of you may not know that I come to my hometown Morigaon for 3 evenings in each week for my private practice after finishing my duty at my workplace GMCH. During those days when my parents were absent, I didn't have to worry about anything at my hometown, I mean regarding food etc.... Most of my neighbours and relatives were actually concerned about me even more than myself or my parents.. Each night I had dinner invitations in one of my neighbours' or relatives' place... One particular neighbour regularly woke me up at 6.30 am so that I wouldn't miss my duty at Guwahati from 10 am. Even sometimes some of my neighbours dropped me at the bus stoppage in that early hours.
I am telling all these to let you know how helpful my neighbours are... But if I want, I can easily create some unwanted scenes or quarrels with my so friendly neighbours which won't even need much effort... But to maintain our relationships as on today, we need to be careful enough... Just because of these neighbours our whole family can leave the house even for weeks without having to worry about other care takers... We are having a great time together, but if somehow we have to deal with all those daily obstacles singlehandedly, we will face much trouble... This is true in a bigger sense actually.
After the Telengana issue, there are demands from many segments regarding formation of so many new states in Assam. Assam has been divided thrice since Independence with Nagaland carved out in 1963, Meghalaya with the passing of North Eastern (Reorganisation Areas) Act in 1971 and Mizoram, which first became a Union Territory in 1971 and was later made a state in 1985.
You know... Most of us fail to understand some bitter facts.. Politics is too complex and cruel to be understood by us, the general public... For the sake of argument lets suppose some new states are formed... But will that be peaceful? No... There will be lots of violence and blood shedding of the general public... After all those, who will be benefitted? Only some of the leaders and the opportunists... The lives of the common man eventually will remain the same... Nobody to complain!!! Anyway the memory of our people are too short... Within no time we will forget everything and once again after a few years we will be able to raise our demands for a newer state or even a new country!!!
It doesn't matter whether my points touches anyone or not... I am a citizen of independent India, thus I have the full rights to express my healthy views... So today, I won't hesitate to declare it publicly that I can never support the idea of "Independent Assam" as proposed by ULFA, and likewise I won't like to see Assam to divide any more... I am an Indian Assamese and would like to remain the same for ever..!!!
I am telling all these to let you know how helpful my neighbours are... But if I want, I can easily create some unwanted scenes or quarrels with my so friendly neighbours which won't even need much effort... But to maintain our relationships as on today, we need to be careful enough... Just because of these neighbours our whole family can leave the house even for weeks without having to worry about other care takers... We are having a great time together, but if somehow we have to deal with all those daily obstacles singlehandedly, we will face much trouble... This is true in a bigger sense actually.
After the Telengana issue, there are demands from many segments regarding formation of so many new states in Assam. Assam has been divided thrice since Independence with Nagaland carved out in 1963, Meghalaya with the passing of North Eastern (Reorganisation Areas) Act in 1971 and Mizoram, which first became a Union Territory in 1971 and was later made a state in 1985.
You know... Most of us fail to understand some bitter facts.. Politics is too complex and cruel to be understood by us, the general public... For the sake of argument lets suppose some new states are formed... But will that be peaceful? No... There will be lots of violence and blood shedding of the general public... After all those, who will be benefitted? Only some of the leaders and the opportunists... The lives of the common man eventually will remain the same... Nobody to complain!!! Anyway the memory of our people are too short... Within no time we will forget everything and once again after a few years we will be able to raise our demands for a newer state or even a new country!!!
It doesn't matter whether my points touches anyone or not... I am a citizen of independent India, thus I have the full rights to express my healthy views... So today, I won't hesitate to declare it publicly that I can never support the idea of "Independent Assam" as proposed by ULFA, and likewise I won't like to see Assam to divide any more... I am an Indian Assamese and would like to remain the same for ever..!!!
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