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Thy name is Sikkim!

BY SHITAL PRADHAN

Delisle's 1723 Carte d'Asie shows the first map of Sikkim then written as Bramson

Closer view of Bramson

I enjoy what Gerda Lerner, a renowned historian once quoted “What we do about history matters? The often repeated saying that those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them has a lot of truth in it. But what are ‘the lessons of history’? The very attempt at definition furnishes ground for new conflicts. History is not a recipe book; past events are never replicated in the present in quite the same way. Historical events are infinitely variable and their interpretations are a constantly shifting process. There are no certainties to be found in the past. As a toddler we are here to comprehend the beauty of those immemorial days that has lived up to its days.”

Often repeated words that history should never be repeated but re-created, I personally believe we have come to that relaxation now we can have local writers brushing up with some history exemplar, pushing behind those gloomy days of lactiveness. There were times in my academic life when the approach on this subject was ridden off with yarn and skimp. History should never be looked upon simply as long-drawn-out pages of the times of yore. The beauty lies in exploring the drift world of historical impudence, though we are left with much work of uncertainties, yet more we uncover, most magnificence it further lays.

11 hours Assam bandh on Monday. – AASU

TEXTS AND IMAGES BY NANDA KIRATI DEWAN

All Assam Students Union(AASU) advisor Sammjwal Bhattacharyya addressing media person on 02/11/2008 at �Shaeed Nyash� calling 11 hours bandh tomorrow in protest following Thursdays serial blast in Assam that claimed 81 innocent lives. UB Photos - Photo by Nanda Kirati Dewan

The apex students organization of Assam the pioneer of Assam Movement All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has called a 11 hour Assam bandh tomorrow will effect from 5am in morning to 4pm in the evening to protest Thursday’s powerful serial blast in Assam that claimed 81 innocent lives

Briefing mediapersons at ‘Shaeed Nyash’ advisor AASU told newspersons that though AASU had abstained from calling bandh now almost for 2 and half years however to protest dealiest attack on Assamese soul we call a 11 hours bandh instead of earlier speculations of 24 hours bandh.

Opposition meets Governor; Protest rally to Raj Bhawan

TEXTS AND IMAGES BY NANDA KIRATI DEWAN FROM GUWAHATI

 

AGP took out a candle light programme for the people victimized in the serial bomb blasts in Assam at Guwahati on 01-11-08 night. UB Photos - Photo by Nanda Kirati Dewan

The main Oppositon Party in the Assam Legislative Assembly Asom Gana Parishad took out a public rally from party office Ambari to Raj Bhawan expressing utter dismay at the failure of the Tarun Gogoi led Cong-BPF coalition government in Assam and demanding its immediate dissolution following serial blasts in Assam that has so far claimed 81 innocent lives. The rally left Ambari at 12.10pm headed by party President and Leader of the Opposition of Assam Legislative Assembly Mr. Chandra Mohan Patwary followed by some 3500 supporters including sitting AGP MLAs and MPs and central office bearers.

 

Governor of Assam Shiv Charan Mathur meets AGP leader Chandra Mohan Patowary and others at RajBhavan on his visit to the governor regarding the serial blasts demanding dismissal of the ruling government in Assam on Sunday, 2nd November, 2008. UB PHOTOS - Photo by Nanda Kirati Dewan

 

The main opposition party of the state AGP (Asom Gana Parishad) taking out a protest rally against the serial blasts in the state putting out 81lives that shook the entire globe on the cursed 30th October, 2008 demanding dismissal of the ruling government in Assam on Sunday, 2nd November, 2008. UB PHOTOS - Photo by Nanda Kirati Dewan

The rally from Ambari went through Guwahati Club, Chenikhuti, Barwari, Latasil to Raj Bhawan shouting anti government slogans for insecurity of common man. A delegation also met Governor of Assam His Excellency Shri Shiv Charan Mathur at Raj Bhawan and handed over a memorandum demanding immediate dissolution of Tarun Gogoi government and security to threat of sovereignty of the nation to the President of India Her Excellency Smti. Pratibah Devi Singh Patil. Youth wing of AGP Asom Yuva Parishad and women wing Asom Mahila Parishad also were present in the rally. The AGP had organized a candle light rally last evening expressing solidarity to the blast victims and calling for peace and harmony.

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REGIONAL PAROCHIALISM WILL BE OPPOSED: BIMAN BASU

FROM PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY 

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY IS COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA MARXISTS’ MOUTHPIECE

BY B PRASHANT

SENIOR CPI (M) leader Biman Basu spoke about the urgent need to contain and condemn regional parochialism. ‘Ugly deeds of regional and linguistic chauvinism are a terrible danger to the very notion and practice of national integrity and unity’ was how Biman Basu would put it.

‘The whole concept,’ he added, ‘of Indian citizenship itself is now faced with a challenge of grim proportions, as seen in the prejudiced drive overwhelmed with brutalisation against certain sections of the people in Mumbai This must not be allowed to go unhindered. People of every section of the social fabric must come forward in strong condemnation of the deeds being perpetrated. Political parties of every kind of ideology and political leanings should have the courage to condemn publicly such parochial acts of commission.

In this connection, Biman Basu referred to two forms of separatist movements taking place in Bengal. Up north in Darjeeling, the anarchic Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) was busy overwriting car number plates and altering signboard lettering, often being met with a different sort of separatism in the dooars and the plain lands. The Darjeeling district Left Front has called for unity of the people and for opposing all attempts at dividing up Bengal. Down south, a demand has been raised by interested quarters about slicing of three districts – Bankura, Purulia, and Midnapore west – from Bengal and having them form part of the neighbouring state of Jharkhand.

‘PEOPLE OF DARJEELING SHALL REBUFF THE SEPARATISTS’

FROM PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY 

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY IS COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA MARXISTS’ MOUTHPIECE

BY B PRASHANT

In between looking after the T & CP (the Town and Country Planning Act of 1979) that governs vital building activities in Bengal, and closing the gaps in the GAP (the Ganga Action Plan of the union government), the busy urban development minister of Bengal LF government, Ashok Bhattacharya managed a slot of time to speak to People’s Democracy at the Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan on the latest Darjeeling developments. The minister has a uniquely intimate knowledge of the district having been associated with the Darjeeling CPI(M) from the late 1960s.

(Q) Why would you dub the Darjeeling imbroglio as separatist as well as anarchist?

(A) When some people identify Bengal as their burning ghat, one would dare say that the target is just that, to make Bengal rip and burn while the dans macabre is executed. The long term aim is to ensure that Darjeeling is carved away from Bengal and set up as a separate state. On the other hand, these separatist elements would militate against all kinds of development and then mournfully sing about Darjeeling having been allowed to suffer in the backwaters of underdevelopment. The game plan itself makes us call the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and its running mates separatists as well as anarchists.

Amid threat, Nepal assures safe skies

FROM SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA NET

NEW DELHI: A day after India expressed its concern about vulnerability of Indian aircraft at ‘not so secure’ Tribhuvan International Airport in 
Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday promised to take all necessary measures to beef up the security there to thwart any attempt of Pakistan-based terrorists make repeat of IC-814 type of hijacking. 

The assurance from Nepal came on the day when India itself put its all airports in north-east on high alert in the wake of terror attacks in Assam. Though the alert, an official said, was part of a routine security drill, India raised the issue of airport security with Nepal a day before during the home secretary-level talks here in the backdrop of intelligence inputs that Pak-based terror groups were likely to target India-bound aircrafts originating from Kathmandu. 

Briefing reporters on conclusion of the talks on Saturday, Union home secretary Madhukar Gupta said that he had been assured by his Nepalese counterpart Gobinda Prasad Kusum that Kathmandu would “do whatever needed to be done”. Gupta said Kusum promised to look into all related issues in this regard and convey New Delhi’s concern to the higher authorities in Kathmandu.

India, Nepal discuss security, border management to combat terrorism

FROM INDIA GAZETTE

New Delhi, Nov 1 : Home Secretaries of India and Nepal discussed a wide range of issues relating to security, border management and cooperation to effectively combat terrorist activities during their two day talks which commenced yesterday. 

Broad parameters of checking smuggling of arms, ammunition, drugs and fake currency were also discussed.

The meeting also deliberated on institutionalising the security-related mechanism between the two countries.

New Delhi has assured Kathmandu to help strengthen the Nepal Police and help in setting up of a Nepal Police Academy.

The delegations are led by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and his Nepalese counterpart Govinda Kusum

Message from Calcutta: Attack Guwahati

FROM THE TELEGRAPH

Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi with Tarun Gogoi and Shivraj Patil at a blast site in Guwahati on Saturday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Guwahati, Nov. 1: The army today told the Prime Minister it had intercepted a message from Calcutta a week before the October 30 Assam blasts that said: “Attack Guwahati.”

At an evening meeting at Guwahati airport, the army also told Manmohan Singh it had known about the impending terror strikes in western Assam towns for six weeks and had tried to prevent them.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who heads the state’s unified command that includes the army, corroborated this at the meeting with Singh who made a short trip to Guwahati today.

Lt Gen. B.S. Jaswal, GOC, 4 Corps, told Singh the army had received “non-specific” information on September 17 about possible strikes in Guwahati, Barpeta Road and Kokrajhar, according to state minister Bharat Narah.

Gogoi admitted his government knew all of this but did not anticipate the scale of the blasts that killed 81 people and injured over 300 in these three places and Bongaigaon.

The government today formed a special team, headed by inspector-general of police (special task force) R. Chandranathan, to probe the blasts and report within 30 days.

The police detained three persons, including the suspected owners of a car and a motorbike used in the blasts. The third detainee was a young man whose address tallied with that on the application for a mobile connection that was used to send yesterday’s text message claiming responsibility for the attacks.

However, the suspect’s face did not match the photograph on the application, suggesting someone else may have used his name and address.