Thursday, December 24, 2009

Petition UN to acknowledge Bengali GENOCIDE instead of Bengali language

So Bengali is to become the seventh official language of the UN. The proposal was put forth by East and then seconded by west Bengal.

It is said the Bengali has 250 million speakers (1 million=10 Lacs) of which 66% is Muslim speakers of Bengali and that leaves a mere 82.5 million speakers who are Hindu Bengalis. And it is only Hindu Bengalis who have created the most beautiful prose and poetry in Bengali. And it was Hindu Bengalis who fought bitterly for independence from the British Raj and in the catastrophe of those nine month of 1971 2.5 million Bengali Hindus perished.

Muslims have made almost negligible contribution towards enrichment of Bengali language.

It is really so disgusting to let the perpetrators of a terrible Genocide go scot-free and then shamelessly go to UNITED NATIONS and ask Bengali to be made a official language of the world body. Why cant' those leaders raise the issue of the Genocide instead on the podium of the UN? Bengali Hindu leaders of west Bengal lost no moment to second the proposal but no one remembers the Genocide of 1971.

Contrast this to the case of JOHN DEMJANJUK, who is wheel chair bound and still facing trial for the deaths of Jews in Nazi Concentration camps. The figure of Mr. Demjanjuk presents a very sorry state; he looks dejected and fragile but the world is in no mood to forgive him for crimes he committed in his youth.

And in the Khmer Rouge Genocide trial, COMRADE DUCH appears no better and begs for mercy and leniency on the grounds that he had fully co-operated with the tribunal and had been in jail since 1999.

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I AM APOLOGISE FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN NAHARKATIA

On 19th December 2009, a clash between Bengalis and Assamese student activists erupted in Naharkatia, in Upper Assam's Dibrugarh District. The spark for the clash was the forcible collection of donations by Assam Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP) from petty Bengali traders in Naharkatia's daily bazar.

As the clash spread, Bengalis ransacked the office of Naharkatia AJYCP, apart from thrashing some activists present there. In the heat of this commotion , Bengalis raised anti-Assamese slogans and broke the statue of Kalaguru Bhisnu Prasad Rabha (a cultural icon of Assam).

This is very grossly erroneous on the part of the Bengalis. Ransacking the office and clashing with the activists is another thing and breaking Kalaguru's statue is a different thing altogether. After all the Bengalis here must remember that they are eating the rice from Assam's land and fish from its many rivers. Showing disrespect to Kalaguru means you are abusing Assam in all its entirety.

For that matter, I am profoundly sorry and beg forgiveness from ASSAM and all its people.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

MULTA - A LOOMING THREAT!

Assam has a large Muslim population; nearly 40% out of a total of 26.5 million are Muslims. Atleast 8 districts out of a total of 27 Assam districts are Muslim majority.In another ten districts, the Muslim population is nearly half of the total district population. The bulk of the Muslim population of Assam is of East Bengali descent; though there are about 350000 Muslims who speak the Assamese language. Recently the line between Assamese and Bengali Muslims have become blurred with a lot of marital alliances between them. There are also Hindi and Urdu speaking Muslims here, but their numbers are not significant enough.

The Muslims are mainly concentrated in the Lower, Central and Southern Assam districts. Dhubri has more than 90% Muslims while Goalpara has more than 75% Muslim. Muslims have not been able to dig in the Upper and Eastern Districts of Assam. The Muslims of Bengali descent are mostly engaged in agriculture. The plains of Assam are quite fertile; and taking advantage of the Assamese reluctance to do hard manual labour, land hungry Muslims had been invading the fertile lands of Assam since British times.

Indigenous tribal communities of Assam are highly resentful of Muslim presence in their lands. In the mid-90’s, Bodo rebels targeted Muslims in an organised way to root them out from Bodo heartland. Hundreds were killed and many more were made homeless. After these riots, Muslim groups began arming and organizing themselves. There are quite a few of them, of which we often hear about MULTA (MUSLIM UNITED LIBERATION TIGERS OF ASSAM). There are often reports of MULTA cadres being arrested with arms and incriminating documents from various parts of Assam. This cat and mouse game is continuing for more than ten years now. MULTA is not banned; nobody knows what is aiming for. Those caught uptill now are all small fishes.

MULTA had been arming and organizing itself for so many years now without engaging in any major operation. It is worrisome. It certainly has backers in neighboring East Bengal and there it is safe from the Indian security agencies. MULTA certainly has close ties with HUJI (HARKAT UL JIHAD- A EAST BENGAL BASED JIHADI GROUP). HUJI's aims for talibanisation of EAST BENGAL.HUJI is blamed for many violent incidents in East Bengal and also proividing logistical support for subversive activities inside India, and its ideology is shared by many JIHADI organizations.

It is highly imperative to know about the aims and objectives of MULTA. Otherwise it might become too late when we see MULTA going on operational phase. Bengali Hindus living in Assam might have to bear the first onslaught when MULTA goes operational.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Bengali Romanticism

So what is Bengali Romanticism?

I have often heard this word – “Bengali Romanticism”. The Bengali Bhadrolok community prides itself for its idealism, its achievements in making arty movies, writing abstract poetry and dramas. The slow rhythmic steps of Rabindrasangeet makes Bengalis think that we are so lucky to have such pleasant things.

But is it so? Behind these façades, Bengalis had tactfully buried their own sorrows and woes of the previous century. A century that saw millions of Bengalis perishing in the artificial famine of 1943, the partition of 1947 which engulfed hundreds of thousands and displaced an estimated 20 million from their ancestral homeland. And then the GENOCIDE OF 1971 which saw 2.5 million Hindu Bengalis being mercilessly killed by the armed forces of Pakistan.

Why Bengalis who pride themselves of being able to produce the best novelists of India are not able to produce someone like Orhan Pamuk( Nobel Prize winner of Literature) ? We often see our leaders taking to the streets of Kolkatta when fighting erupts in distant West Asia. I myself witnessed one such rally which threw life out of gear in the suburbs of the Metro. Very few, if at all, knew who are Jews, how much persecution they had suffered, how they established their country with their blood.

It like people of a war torn African country demonstrating to stop war and atrocities in Balkans or Sri Lanka. And these are the foundations of “Bengali Romanticism”. Forget your own pain /sufferings and apply balm to some stranger in some distant land. And when our poets and novelists do these things, we clap our hands and applaud them.

Please stop these Romanticism- if at all you need to be Romantic produce some writer like Orhan Pamuk who writes about the Armenian Genocide rather than Bhang and Ganja. Or some film director who is able to document the catastrophe of 1971 Genocide. We do need them.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Bengali Hindus are Being Attacked in Assam

For second time in two months, deadly riots have broken out in Udalguri and Darrang Districts of Northern Assam. In both cases, Bengali Muslims had fired the first salvo. Reports indicate that a VILLAGE DEFENCE PARTY near Rowta (consisting of Bodo youths) was attacked when they gone to investigate an incident of Cattle theft in the area dominated by immigrants. The Bodo youths were brutally attacked and atleast one was taken away as a hostage. This was the trigger for the massive flare up-and soon Muslims and Bodos were killing and burning each other’s villages.

Television visuals show that Bodo women, girls and the infirm are shifting towards safer places and the menfolk have decided to stay put and fight back. Bodos are an indigenous tribal group of Assam. And as it happens, tribal groups are very protective about their identity and culture.

Village after village had turned desolate as warring groups clashed. Many deaths are from police firing.

There are reports of Pakistani flags being raised in some burnt Bodos villages. And the organized way in which the immigrants had attacked the non-Muslims (including Assamese and Bengali Hindus) indicate that they had been preparing for long. Bengali Hindus have definitely been affected in this riots.

The Muslim vote bank is a decisive factor in Assam; and as such political parties are wary of antagonizing them. And the caste Assamese are as much to blame themselves because they had made so many lacerations on the Hindu Bengali Psyche – that Hindu Bengalis are still wary of the Assamese.

If you are not prepared for your defence, these things are going to be repeated many times in future. In the times of DURGA PUJA, many of our brethern have been forced to spent their nights in relief camps. But I know, we will continue to be Bhadroloks.