[Assam] Stress laid on new thinking for real development (The Assam Tribune, Monday, March 31, 2008 )

[Buljit Buragohain]

              Stress laid on new thinking for real development
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, March 30 – Noted academic and writer Dr Hiren Gohain today underlined the need for new thinking to emerge for real people-oriented development to take place in Assam. Unless that happened, a coterie of affluent people would continue to reap the benefits actually meant for the common person. 

Speaking after formally releasing the ninth edition of Luitorpora Thamesoloi, a bilingual journal, published and edited by Dr Karuna Sagar Das, Dr Gohain bemoaned that post Independence, the general tendency betrayed a loss of original thoughts and ideas. He compared that to times when luminaries like Ambikagiri Roychoudhury and Jyotiprasad Agarwala had the intellectual resources to produce their own drafts of the Indian Constitution.

Dr Gohain urged the non-resident Assamese to take a good hard look at the various ills afflicting the land of their origin, and make an attempt to rejuvenate its economy and culture so that the people could regain their moorings.

Dr Gohain believed that the non-resident Assamese could play a crucial role in garnering knowledge and information for the developmental needs of their motherland and at the same time disseminate news about the State to the world outside.

Sounding a note of caution the eminent thinker mentioned the enormous natural resources of Assam, which he felt required more attention from the conscious section of society. With forces of globalisation sweeping across the State, there is a possibility of the resources being exploited by certain quarters that had absolutely no interest in social and econmic justice.

Speaking as the distinguished guest, well-known engineer Bhupati Das revealed his admiration for Luitorpora Thamesoloi, referring to the name as especially endearing. He also reminisced about the days of his youth many of which were spent by the banks of the Brahmaputra. He hoped that the magazine would continue its good work in the years ahead. 

Dr Karuna Sagar Das, a resident of Bradford, and who published the first edition of the magazine in 1999 said that his effort aimed at bridging the distance separating people from Assam living in various parts of the world, to the people of Assam. In his view the magazine has been able to bring together a large number of writers from both Assam and abroad. 

He emphasised that Assam and her people had to embrace a certain work culture if the State was to achieve economic and social goals. Deploring the fact that hard work and honest labour was in the wane, he stated the need for serious introspection among the people of Assam if real growth and development was to reach the masses.

Today’s function was presided over by noted singer Dilip Sarma, and was attended amongst others by Lakhyahira Das, and Jogesh Chandra Das who also spoke on the occasion.
            

















      

















        

















      

















  (The Assam Tribune,Monday, March 31, 2008 ) 


       
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