GUWAHATI 15 june,2009
7 TH RACIALIST STRIKE ON INDIANS
DOWN WITH RACISM
For the seventh time, Australian boys struck at the Indian students in Australia,despite the denouncement by the government of Australia.Yesterday,a British MP said that Britain is full of foreigners in reminiscent of Enoch Powell's similar pronouncement.Racism is at work now in several places.World conference in Durban against racism has outlawed racism of any manifestation whatever.
It is true that Indians had swamped the west in terms of lakhs and the middleclass westerners might have felt threatened.In return, India would have provided space for a million whitemen or yellowmen- the Chinese.Americans would not accept CEO position in IIM or IIT or any sector and Indian would make their physical presence unaffordable.How many westerners- the tourists had been done to death in Goa or in Delhi.If we count the numbers, possibly Australia would be put to shame. The Australian and ndian mindset are not much different at least to the victims of racism. The universities, power centres and NGOs have to fight racism alongside the government in the country.
Is there internal racism in India ?
Undoubtedly yes. Assamese girls or boys or the NE students bore the brunt in railways and cities.In New Delhi, cases of rape and physical assault on NE youths and students had been reported thereby placing Australia as insignificant.What could be the plausible reasons. Historically speaking, North East had never been a part of mainland Moghul India or even British India.Assam had been an exception in being a part of British India jsy a shor while ago in history.History had therefore,separated Indians and the North easterners for three millennia only to be united by govt.gazette notification. Indians by choice or by gazetted Indian?The argument that NE becomes a past of political India so suddenly makes no sense.The mindset is not prepared.
To be a little bit specific, the people of Tibeto Burman or Sino-Tibetan origin are still recognised as non-Indians to 99% of Indians and they have to prove 1001 times daily with ID cards and 5 hour long arguments that they are also Indians.Indians never accept these people as Indian except through TV and print media or, ID cards.
This is the prima facie evidence of separate nationalities united by army's guns and governments' gazette notifications.No naturaleness and no spontaneity which is the first and foremost ingredient of nationality.The author himself had encountered innumerable experiences even within the region; sometimes, even for a minor misunderstanding that happens to every one, students of one adjacent college in december,2008 wanted my apology in public for a trifling matter misunderstood event to which to two professors- me and one more are equally and exactly equally involved.Forget about the trivia;even barrister Gandhi with ties and suits had to be kicked out of 1st class compartment by a racist, who is just one out of a million in South Africa.
Manipuri boys who by nature had never submitted to campus dada culture- may be due to absence of casteism in Manipuri society in 3000 years- had been driven out of Punjab, Allahabad, Madras or another 20 cities in the last 3 decades.To be honest enough, the boys might have been deliquent as in their age groups they behaved that way.Reason; Indian boys and girls had never accepted them as their own.
Manipuri terrorists or thugs had killed nearly 300 Manipuris a year for ransom so and so forth; but these are not highlighted by Telegraph,Guwahati.When a hundred Biharis had been killed in Assam, it was big news- we agree it should be and criminals deserve justice.When Telegraph highlights, the unfortunate killing of migrants in Manipur,Telegraph has done the right thing.Kudos.
But sadly, when 300 Manpuris are killed by Manipuri thugs, Telegraph conceals them and sometimes published as 1 cm.newslet in that wonderful paper.Our stand is that killing of 300 souls and another 5 or 100 deserve equal page 1 headline space and condemnation; we do that and Telegraph run by probably a covet fascist lack the courage to do so.Telegraph is not alone.
Selective justicing by the media is no better that selective injusticing.Telegragh might have expected a backlash and a communal riot; but it shall never happen.
Racism is to be fought in the mind of the racist first and crushed like fascism that papers like Telegraph secretly nurtures.1 year collecton would prove that.Down with racism- white or brown or golden.We are onein the struggle.
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
WORLD CLASS UNIV.IN NORTH EAST- WISHLIST
guwahati, 9 june,09,
tuesday
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QUO VADIS UNIV. IN NE REGION
soul searching and visionaries
HRD minister's public announcement to set up as many as 14 world class universities and 384 model colleges might be welcome in certain quarters.Naturally, any proposal to set up institutions are prima facie welcome before the conseqential, result-oriented ramifications could be assessed in cool thought chamber.Insitutions are run by men and t is the quality of the men that reigns supreme.Can we do some honest evaluation of univs. in our region.
We went to central universities [ without naming] in the region. Offices,classrooms so and so forth could be found open for a few hours after 11 am and 2 pm. Salary hike- 80,000/ pm to start with, a meager 3,ooo per day is not making some stoic faces smile.Some universities in the Myanmar border, particularly one, make us refresh with Kampuchea's killing fields.Shoot outs, extortions,Berlin walls in the tiny spaces available, daily massive propaganda handouts a la Natzi, Goebellian style are in the daily news.It is central universty at the end of the day.People are in siege of the terror withn and terror without.How can you or me concentrate a wonderful pathbreaking economics or,philosophy or,physics paper worthy of world class evaluation in the midst of the killing fields.
Harvard, yale, Princeton,Cambridge,Oxford,Edinburgh,Moscow or Beijing universities are different.The halo of first top Indian universities like Calcutta,Madras, Bombay,Delhi,Mysore in that order had vanished only to be replaced by highly perturbed, politically motivated clones.National Knowledge Commission on 4 fields,TIFAC report need careful reading before we launch heritage or,other forms of universities.They are the knowledge inputs of 300 Indian top academics and scientists working in a team.
The problem is that basic university education has become a thing of the fast, although some IITs do shine like freaks.Indias HRD minister and the VCs have to do a little bit of soul searching, apart from gimmicks. NCHE is yet to be assessed.
World class would not become so overnight; they resulted from accumulated experiences and enormous creativiy of the faculties as a whole.A DULL slot and a black sheep would be the end.Infrastructures.Atthesame time, it may be noted that in the last 30 year old bookfairs- twice a year held in the city_ could be error of judgement also, I hardly could meet just a handful of teachers , nothing more-nothing less.The show business is not the indicator; the culture sustainable s that reallly matters.There is no room for sudden quantum jump in any discipline.Even the theory of justice today is the beyeproduct of 5000 year-long theoretical infighting across the continents and the real politics on the ground.
tuesday
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QUO VADIS UNIV. IN NE REGION
soul searching and visionaries
HRD minister's public announcement to set up as many as 14 world class universities and 384 model colleges might be welcome in certain quarters.Naturally, any proposal to set up institutions are prima facie welcome before the conseqential, result-oriented ramifications could be assessed in cool thought chamber.Insitutions are run by men and t is the quality of the men that reigns supreme.Can we do some honest evaluation of univs. in our region.
We went to central universities [ without naming] in the region. Offices,classrooms so and so forth could be found open for a few hours after 11 am and 2 pm. Salary hike- 80,000/ pm to start with, a meager 3,ooo per day is not making some stoic faces smile.Some universities in the Myanmar border, particularly one, make us refresh with Kampuchea's killing fields.Shoot outs, extortions,Berlin walls in the tiny spaces available, daily massive propaganda handouts a la Natzi, Goebellian style are in the daily news.It is central universty at the end of the day.People are in siege of the terror withn and terror without.How can you or me concentrate a wonderful pathbreaking economics or,philosophy or,physics paper worthy of world class evaluation in the midst of the killing fields.
Harvard, yale, Princeton,Cambridge,Oxford,Edinburgh,Moscow or Beijing universities are different.The halo of first top Indian universities like Calcutta,Madras, Bombay,Delhi,Mysore in that order had vanished only to be replaced by highly perturbed, politically motivated clones.National Knowledge Commission on 4 fields,TIFAC report need careful reading before we launch heritage or,other forms of universities.They are the knowledge inputs of 300 Indian top academics and scientists working in a team.
The problem is that basic university education has become a thing of the fast, although some IITs do shine like freaks.Indias HRD minister and the VCs have to do a little bit of soul searching, apart from gimmicks. NCHE is yet to be assessed.
World class would not become so overnight; they resulted from accumulated experiences and enormous creativiy of the faculties as a whole.A DULL slot and a black sheep would be the end.Infrastructures.Atthesame time, it may be noted that in the last 30 year old bookfairs- twice a year held in the city_ could be error of judgement also, I hardly could meet just a handful of teachers , nothing more-nothing less.The show business is not the indicator; the culture sustainable s that reallly matters.There is no room for sudden quantum jump in any discipline.Even the theory of justice today is the beyeproduct of 5000 year-long theoretical infighting across the continents and the real politics on the ground.
The region is a virgin soil.Whatever you seed in, mother earth or theintellectual earth would delver the goods.What we have been looking forward is the missing convictions and will to rise to new heights.World class universities have to emerge here also.Time is ripe.
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