[Assam] [Assam Society] Re: An inspiring story and countering the biased media

[J Kalita]

Umesh,

Please send me some writing for the April issue. We
will bring it out in the second week of April.

Thanks!

Jugal-da

--- umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Subir Bhowmick - isn't he the guy from BBC?
>    
>   Umesh
>    
>   
> 
> Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     A young man had a dream that he would be able to
> provide quality education to the poorest of the
> children. The principle of this school Mr. Theron
> Uttam had started giving education to children under
> the roof of metal sheet and between the walls of
> Bamboo in four rooms in year 2003. An Australian Mr.
> Garvin Brown came to know about this effort. Mr.
> Brown organizes exhibitions on world peace and
> Gandhi’s ideology in Australia. One day Mr. Garvin
> Brown had told his friend Mr. Mic Enguj who was taxi
> driver about Assam’s village school. At that time
> Mr. Mic had donated 1000 dollar without asking any
> questions. 
>    
>   This is a true and moving story. But how many of
> us know about these inspiring persons. The national
> media of India are too busy highlighting the
> extremists and violence of Assam and North eastern
> region. It seems Journalist like Subir Bhowmick's
> finds extra pleasure to write a demeaning piece on
> the region. How about writing some good stuff
> instead? Assam has more to offer then ULFA
>    
>   We need to mount a sustained, calculated campaign
> (but in a nice  way) to counter lopsided media 
>   Dear Journalist friends of Assam, please come
> forward, visit rural Assam , come out with many such
> inspiring stories . The pen was, is and will always
> be mightier than sword. This is high time that you
> use your pen to stand against the biased national
> media.
>    
>   Sincerely,
>   Ankur
>   Austin , Texas
>   You may contact ankurbora at hotmail.com or
> partha_gogoi at yahoo.com for necessary writing
> materials.
>    
>    
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> Umesh Sharma
> 
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> 
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> Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> Harvard University,
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