[Assam] Please send a Letter to the Editor, The Assam Tribune

[Rajen & Ajanta Barua]

Dear Netter:
We thank you for your support in our fight against renaming the state as Asom and to retain the name of Assam. As you can see the media is Assam and many intellectuals and eminent literary figures are in favor of keeping the name of Assam and are against the spelling Asom.  However, in spite of all these supports, we cannot say that we have achieved success yet. First, as one can see, we donot have proper democracy in India and worst still in Assam, and anything is possible, unless people decide to stand up and speak and take control of democracy.

We figured out that at this stage, we all can do a great justice to the system if we all, on individual level, write one Letter to the Editor to The Assam Tribune. This is a paper which has a more than hundred years tradition in Assam and has great influence in public. Sadly, the paper has been playing a contradictory role in the Assam-Asom issue. It has published a unique Editorial supporting for retention of the name Assam.  However the paper, for reasons of its own, is still writing the spelling Asom in all its writing. We need to humbly request the paper to stop writing Asom till we arrive at an official resolution on the issue. (BTW we have also seen during the last two days that even GOA's own  advertisement in the paper is using the name of Assam and not Asom.)

Below, please find the email address of Assam Tribune and a suggested draft of a letter for your help. Please edit or rewrite completely in your own way opposing GOA's undemocratic process of taking the resolution, and requesting AT not to use the spelling Asom till it is official.

You may not know, but this may be a great service, you may do for our state at this stage.

Thanks

Rajen Barua

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Suggetsed draft of a Letter to the Editor to the Assam Tribune:

Mr.P. G. Baruah
Editor, The Assam Tribune
Guwahati.

1) info at assamtribune.com  and/or 2) atreporter at rediffmail.com

 
Dear Sir,
 
At the outset I wish you a very Happy New Year.  I am very glad to see that your paper has given good coverage to the news item of the petition to the CM aginst their resolution to ranme Assam as Asom. We also see your timely Editorial supporting for retention of the name Assam. You have so wiseley pointed out that renaming state as Asom will simply create confusion and may devide the state further.

The Assam Tribune is an important, and one of the oldest, Assamese institution in Assam which I take pride in.. Your family is the oldest media family in Assam. It is very important that you uphold the integrity and honesty of the role of media which is to question the government of any wrong doing instead of following the government blindly. I look forward to the Assam Tribune playing a leading role in the entire North East in the coming years.  Any writing in the Assam Tribune influence the public very much. I would like the Assam Tribune to grow much more and be a voice of the people of the entire North Esat India. 

In this connection, I would like to point out that your estemmed paper is still writing the spelling Asom in all other writing which is very objectioable from journalistic honesty and integrety. I most humbly request you to kindly refrain from writing the spelling Asom which is creating great confusiton amongst your readers who are trying hard to understand what is exactly the voice of Assam Tribune. Incidently we are glad to notice that GOA's own advertisement in your paper is using the spelling Assam instead of Asom during the last couple of days. 

The spelling Asom is completely wrong, historically as well as phonetically. Our state was never known as Asom and and the spelling Asom can never pronounce the correct pronounciation of the state in Assamese. Even Chandara Prasad Saikia himself admitted this in the famous editorial of Gariyashi where he first recommended the spelling Asom.  The best this rge GOA can do is to leave such complicated sensitive matters to a bosy of experts to come up with their recommendadtion. Till such time, let us all call our state as Assam. 

In view of above, I sincerely appeal to you not to use the spelling Asom any more.



Thanks

Yours Sincerely
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