Comments on: i read the news today, oh boy…

By: pranab

pranab — Thu, 11 May 2006 05:08:54 +0000

hi man how can you say about assam like that?its your favourite muslim people who hoisted pakistani flags in assam in goalpara district in 1971.how they can be so unpatriotic?and about imdt you care about those people who are not indian and staying in assam and giving shelter to isi agents.every people have photo of bin laden in their home not a photo of mahatma gandhi

By: Hrishikesh Saikia

Hrishikesh Saikia — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:02:08 +0000

My friend

being an Assamese I can tell you Assam is perhaps the only state in India which has never had any communal riots between Hindus and Muslims. But here the issue is not of Muslims but that of Bangladeshis. They are citizens of a different country and they are coming and staying in your country (Pliz remember even the far Assam is also a part of this country).

Pliz stop looking at every issue at a hindu and muslim angle and start facing the reality. I fail to understand how supporting a hindu in a just cause can be termed as Communalism?

By: Saurav

Saurav — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You left out the famine in Niger and increasing strife in the Sudan.

On Assam: perhaps you know more about this, but I’ve been told that the issue is not as much about religion as ethnicity (within the framework of the cultural hegemonization that the center subjects the periphery to within the Indian state). Is this not the case?

By: bulleyah

bulleyah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

dear saurav,

of course the cultural hegemonization and economic exploitation that the centre subjects the preiphery to is an issue.
but it gets taken out on the bangaldeshi migrant, accused of stealing jobs…