[Assam] Assam's name to be changed to keep it united: Jahnu Barua

[Manoj Das]

Actually this was the name of an essay Jahnuda wrote in his school days,
when our hilly districts were wanting to break away. He is not suggesting to
change the name now. I was present during the lecture.

-manoj

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Jyotirmoy Sharma <jyotirmoy.sharma at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't understand why a name change will unite people. Will a name change
> make the Dimasas not want a Dimaraji, Bodoland for Bodos or a Karbiland
> for
> the Karbis? There is nothing wrong with "Assam". Changing a name does not
> change people mentality and their attitudes. How many non Tamils call
> "Madras" as  "Chennai" ?
> JS
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > good idea about two time zones.  Why change name when it is already
> > changed to Asom?  how about Brahmaland or Brahmaputri  - like Indus and
> > India similar
> > Seriously, Assam seems good enough.
> >
> > Umesh
> >
> > DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS <biku006 at yahoo.co.in> wrote: UNITED STATES OF ASSAM-
> > that I did proposed in 1975 AASU central meet at Tangla- while Late
> Lalit
> > Rajkhowa was president. Same was adopted in 1976 All undivided darrang
> dist
> > students Union Gen meet as well North Mangaldai Students union, while
> all
> > was breaking up then itself.I tried to unite all- but could never alone.
> >
> >  Bikash
> >
> >
> > Buljit Buragohain  wrote:
> >  Assam's name to be changed to keep it united: Jahnu Barua
> > New Delhi | Saturday, Mar 1 2008 IST
> >
> > Renowned film maker Jahnu Barua has urged the Assamese residing all
> across
> > the country to think patiently on the pressing need for changing the
> name of
> > Assam.
> > Addressing the second lecture series on the Diamond Jublee celebration
> of
> > the Assam Association here today, Mr Barua said the name should be
> selected
> > after having discussions with all the ethnic groups in the state to
> maintain
> > unity and harmony.
> > He said the present name of the state gave the Assamese a chauvinism
> which
> > was greatly responsible for its present state of affairs.
> > Ethnic groups of Nagas, Mizos, Khasis, Garos, Arunachalis and Manipuris
> > would have remained united and contributed to the prosperity of the
> region
> > if Assam's name would have been changed soon after the Independence of
> the
> > country, he added.
> > Though the time was running out, still efforts could be made towards
> > achieving the objective, he said, adding the first attempt could be a
> United
> > football team of the region for the Santosh trophy.
> > He alleged that a number of ethnic issues in the state were due to
> > politicians as their interests were best served in sustaining those
> > problems.
> > Blaming the people of the region for some of the problems, he said, ''We
> > lost much of our time to adjust our selves to the Indian Standard time
> and
> > no body else but the people of North East are suffering for this.
> > ''In such a geographically big country like India, there should be at
> > least two time zones. Even during the British Raj, the time in the North
> > Eastern Region was one hour ahead of the IST. China has three time
> zones,
> > Australia, America and Canada have four, while Russia has five time
> zones.''
> > The people of the North East have been deprived of having a family life
> for
> > the past sixty years, which has its own bearing on the society and the
> > reflection is now clearly visible, he said.
> >
> > http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20080301/898532.html
> >
> >
> >
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> > Umesh Sharma
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )
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> >
> >
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