Volume 35, Issue 6, March 2008 - Posoowa
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Non-Resident Assamese (NRA) Magazine<br />
POSOOWA<br />
News & Events of Assamese People Living Around the World<br />
VOLUME <strong>35</strong>, ISSUE NO. 6 :: MARCH <strong>2008</strong><br />
Tourists on elephants in Kaziranga National Forest, 11th of December, 2007.<br />
Photo by Alpona Barooah, The Woodlands, Texas.<br />
Invitation to Rongali Bihu <strong>2008</strong>, London<br />
Venue: St. Andrews Church Hall, Southgate, London N14<br />
Date: Sunday 4th May <strong>2008</strong><br />
Time: 2 PM - 9:30 PM<br />
Programme<br />
2-3.45 PM: Registration<br />
3:45-4 PM: Welcome by President<br />
4-4.45 PM: Cultural Program<br />
4:45-5 PM: Vote of thanks<br />
5-7.30 PM: General Bihu Dance and<br />
socialising<br />
7:30-9 PM: Bihu Bhoj<br />
For further inormation, please contact either of:<br />
Jayanta Borkakoty, Correspondence Secretary at: 01992 445347
Charity Walk in Guwahati<br />
by Garvin Brown<br />
http://picasaweb.google.com/<br />
Parijat.Academy/<br />
Wahid Saleh da of the<br />
Netherlands, always an inspiring<br />
figure, has also put the route of the<br />
walk through Google map. There<br />
It was sometime in July 2006<br />
when I received an email from<br />
Garvin Brown of Queensland,<br />
Australia. Seventy-eight years old<br />
Garvin introduced himself,<br />
mostly talking about the<br />
influence of Mahatma Gandhi on<br />
his life. He mentioned that he<br />
would be undertaking a walk<br />
from Coast of Queensland to<br />
Sydney covering a distance of<br />
around 950 kms to raise<br />
awareness about the teachings of<br />
Gandhi. Garvin also mentioned<br />
about his desire for a charity<br />
walk in Assam. I was pleasantly<br />
surprised but at the same time I<br />
was apprehensive and not sure.<br />
Garvin replied with a quotation of<br />
Gandhi, “IF YOUR MOTIVES<br />
ARE PURE THERE IS NO<br />
DOUBT ABOUT THE END<br />
RESULT; IT WILL HAPPEN”.<br />
As time progressed, I began to see<br />
the outpouring of support from all<br />
over the globe to the selfless work<br />
of some of the followers of<br />
Gandhi, namely Uttam Teron of<br />
Parijat Academy, Late Jugal<br />
Bhuyan of Prajnalaya, Biju<br />
Barborbaruah of Asha Darshan<br />
among others. In my last trip to<br />
Assam, I also observed the<br />
tremendous goodwill of people of<br />
Assam toward these efforts.<br />
It was a remarkable day, the 9 th of<br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>2008</strong>, when Garvin Brown<br />
came all the way from Australia<br />
and undertook the Charity walk.<br />
Please find the photos of the walk<br />
compiled by Wahid Saleh:<br />
is also an article on the walk at<br />
Assam Tribune online:<br />
http://www.assamtri bune.com/<br />
scripts/details. asp?id=mar1108\<br />
State6 .<br />
It is worthwhile to mention that<br />
Mr. Jayanta Barman of Friends of<br />
Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS)<br />
took all the care for the successful<br />
management of this walk where a<br />
number of eminent persons of<br />
Guwahati participated.<br />
Sincerity, credibility and<br />
dedication are the keys for success<br />
in any endeavor. If someone has<br />
these qualities, he or she is going<br />
to achieve his goal no matter the<br />
obstacles that come on his way.<br />
Garvin Brown’s Charity walk is a<br />
symbol of goodness of human<br />
beings.<br />
Ankur Bora<br />
Austin, Texas<br />
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Bar Amar: Ahom Dictionary<br />
We, a group of five relatives,<br />
were to make an informal call<br />
at the residence of Shri<br />
Lokam Tumung, the headman of<br />
Kharang Kong, a Tangsa village while<br />
we were on a visit to Margherita, Ledo<br />
and other places in Assam. Actually, our<br />
host was ready for us after he got our<br />
phone call that we were on our way. We<br />
also met two other chiefs there, namely,<br />
Shri Yanim Mochang and Shri Kamsat<br />
Loongvi. There was one more person<br />
who also looked like a chief with the<br />
usual headgear, a colorful lungi and<br />
other bits of tribal haute couture,<br />
although he looked a little different from<br />
the rest. His ruddy white complexion in<br />
a much younger body betrayed him. He<br />
was no other than the Australian linguist<br />
Dr Stephen Morey. Dr Morey completed<br />
his Ph.D. on the Tai language of Assam<br />
in 2002. Ever since he has been engaged<br />
in the study of the languages of the<br />
Northeast of India.<br />
We exchanged gifts. The tea served to<br />
us all was delicious. While munching<br />
biscuits and other savories, we<br />
abandoned European civility and put<br />
personal questions to Stephen; he<br />
responded to without taking offence.<br />
Yes, he was married. He did not cook,<br />
as his host would not allow him to do<br />
so. He spoke Tangsa only with the<br />
inmates of the house as well as with<br />
other villagers. He hopped on a bicycle<br />
from one village to the other dressed like<br />
a local Tangsa man.<br />
We asked him about his work. He gave<br />
us his card and a leaflet, which DOBES<br />
Page 10, recto of 1795 edition<br />
produced. DOBES stands for<br />
Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen; the<br />
acronym may not be precise, which<br />
means Documentation of Endangered<br />
Languages. Tangsa, Tai and Singpho are<br />
named in the leaflet among other extinct<br />
languages, in all about fifty.<br />
I asked him questions, which were more<br />
in anthropology than in linguistics.<br />
Since these subjects correlate, Stephen<br />
was able to answer them precisely and<br />
with authority.<br />
The word Tangsa is a derivative from<br />
the word Tong that means high land.<br />
‘Cha’ or ‘Sa’ means sons of the high<br />
land. Like the Ahoms, they migrated<br />
from the South-West China province of<br />
Yunan through Burma and settled in the<br />
Dehing-Patkai region in the 13 th century.<br />
While discussing about the Tangsa,<br />
Stephen casually mentioned the Tai-<br />
Ahom language and the research that is<br />
going on.<br />
Later, after my return to UK, I checked and<br />
found that Dr. Stephen Moray is the Director<br />
of the Ahom Dictionary Resource Project.<br />
Bar Amar (1785) is the most important<br />
Ahom language reference source. There are<br />
several versions of this invaluable document<br />
and the version considered to be the most<br />
reliable is now preserved carefully at the<br />
Department of Historical and Antiquarian<br />
Studies (DHAS) at Guwahati. The<br />
manuscript is being edited with up-to-date<br />
annotations by Yehom Buragohain who is<br />
in charge of the Ahom Section in DHAS.<br />
A veteran Ahom scholar, Junaram<br />
Sangbun Phukan of Patsako, Sivasagar,<br />
Assam possesses a sasi bark manuscript<br />
that contains nearly 3,000 entries. This<br />
is considered to be more accessible to<br />
scholars and is being now<br />
photographed, transcribed and<br />
translated under the aegis of the CRCL<br />
(Centre for Research in Communication<br />
and Language), at the Stirling<br />
University. The Department of<br />
Dr Stephen Morey<br />
Linguistics of the Gauhati University is<br />
also associated with this project.<br />
A more detailed account of the project<br />
can be found on this site:<br />
sealang.net/archives/ahom that explains<br />
why research on the Ahom language is<br />
significant. Not long ago there was an<br />
outcry in the Assam press that hundreds<br />
of manuscripts in DHAS’s archives<br />
were decaying for lack of expert care.<br />
Another criticism was that the progress<br />
in linguistic research in the Northeast<br />
had been tardy. One can only hope that<br />
things are now getting better.<br />
Bhuban Baruah, UK<br />
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Quest for Our Heritage Trail,<br />
Part I: Majuli<br />
We all know what it is like<br />
to visit Assam after you<br />
have lived a significant<br />
part of your life abroad. The earlier<br />
years after leaving homeland the priority<br />
goes to ascertaining a secure financial<br />
future for the family. Things<br />
have changed now but in the 1970s<br />
and earlier years one was allowed<br />
around £ 3 pound sterling per person<br />
and it meant that between<br />
my wife and I<br />
we came with £7 between<br />
us, 3 suitcases<br />
and a 9 month old<br />
baby. The upshot of<br />
this is that visiting<br />
homeland frequently was a impossibility.<br />
Even when you did, visiting<br />
friends and spending time with family<br />
always took priority. It, however,<br />
did not diminish the quest to pursue<br />
the trail of heritage.<br />
After retirement my wife and I started<br />
to travel within India and see the<br />
places that we had only<br />
heard of, now that we<br />
could take longer holidays.<br />
Thus, in December<br />
2006, we decided<br />
to see important places<br />
in Assam and that included<br />
visiting Majuli,<br />
Bordowa ( birthplace<br />
of Sankardeva), Hajo and Madan<br />
Kamdev. Part 1 is about our visit to<br />
Majuli.<br />
Majuli is said to be the largest river<br />
island in the world. It is located near<br />
Jorhat and at the heart of mighty<br />
Brahmaputra. Years of<br />
flooding and erosion<br />
have altered the size<br />
and the shape of<br />
Majuli. To an<br />
Assamese, Majuli’s significance lies<br />
in its unique status of housing several<br />
Satras – seat of Vaishnavite culture<br />
in Assam. Travelling to and from<br />
Majuli is still quite restricted with just<br />
one ferry crossing per day to and<br />
from Nimatighat. Therefore staying<br />
over night is inevitable if you want<br />
to see Majuli.<br />
We set off from<br />
Dibrugarh on 30th<br />
December 2006 to<br />
Jorhat. It is my<br />
hometown and is<br />
full of friends and<br />
relatives. Keeping<br />
everyone happy by visiting everyone<br />
is an impossible task. Therefore, we<br />
followed our usual practice of not<br />
staying with any relatives or friends<br />
to keep the peace but stay overnight<br />
at a neutral venue. We made use of<br />
the huge but empty house of a friend<br />
from the medical school days and<br />
drove onto catch the ferry next morning.<br />
It was an experience<br />
in itself.<br />
It was loaded to<br />
the full from one<br />
end to another<br />
with cars, people,<br />
their bags, animals,<br />
local produce<br />
– you name<br />
it the boat had it. The front and<br />
the back end of the cars hanged<br />
over the floor space.<br />
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Sitting on the roof of the passenger<br />
seating area in open space I<br />
could easily visualise the horrified<br />
expression on<br />
their faces if western<br />
style Health and<br />
Safety executive ever<br />
saw it!!! But the journey<br />
lasting for over 2 hours was curiously<br />
serene with the wide river that<br />
looked more like a sea and its sand<br />
banks. We were waved off by several<br />
groups who had come for picnic.<br />
Disembarkation was equally risky<br />
Main gate: Auniati Satra<br />
with just 2 planks bridging the gap<br />
between the boat and the high-level<br />
riverbank thus creating a steep gradient.<br />
Thank God, it passed off without<br />
any incident.<br />
The road thereafter was not hard<br />
topped. I presumed the floods did not<br />
spare the roads. There were houses<br />
on either side of the road. I was told<br />
later that these were Mising people<br />
displaced by floods who were making<br />
the best use of any available high<br />
ground.<br />
We had booked into a private<br />
guesthouse for the overnight stay.<br />
The place was modestly furnished<br />
but clean. As we registered, the<br />
owner dropped the first clanger.<br />
Since it was the New Years Eve the<br />
chef had gone off on a picnic!!! We<br />
looked for somewhere to have some<br />
lunch and the only available place did<br />
not look quite appetising.<br />
Lesson No.1: make sure that someone<br />
will be<br />
available to<br />
cook your<br />
meals or book<br />
yourself into<br />
the Inspection<br />
Bungalow normally<br />
used by<br />
Government<br />
official. There is a resident cook.<br />
We set off to the Auniati Satra believed<br />
to be one of the largest. You
have to enter the grounds of the Satra<br />
bare-footed. That creates a practical<br />
problem of the pain of walking on<br />
small pebbles. As we walked we saw<br />
a man gathering firewood. We<br />
‘Bhokot’ preparing the rice for cooking<br />
stopped to say hello. What followed<br />
was display of unbelievable modesty<br />
and gentleness that humbled us. He<br />
offered to drop everything and show<br />
us around. We went to his living<br />
quarter that was built of bamboo and<br />
reeds and did not have a concrete<br />
floor. But it was immaculately clean<br />
Shree Shree Hem Chandra Deva<br />
Goswami, Satradhikar, Auniati Satra<br />
with an open fire. He had been at the<br />
Satra for more than 40 years since<br />
he was 9 years of age. His family was<br />
displaced by the floods and they did<br />
not have the resources to look after<br />
him.<br />
Thus he was taken in and there he<br />
remains till his “call comes”, as he<br />
put it. He insisted that we must have<br />
some tea that we declined and then<br />
he insisted that we should have Paan<br />
and betel nut. We then came across a<br />
boy of about 8 who was sweeping<br />
the grounds. Once again, he was the<br />
epitome of modesty and politeness.<br />
He had been there for about 18<br />
months and he appeared to be content<br />
with what the Satra had to offer.<br />
He was learning to dance (Satriya<br />
Dance). He was dedicated to the<br />
Satra by his parents at the age of 7<br />
and is visited by his family about<br />
once a year.<br />
We were guided to the main centre<br />
where the Satradhikar (the Head) received<br />
us with immense politeness<br />
and dignity. We learnt later that he is<br />
a highly qualified man who had a<br />
PhD. We then went around the large<br />
auditorium that holds cultural and<br />
religious functions like evening<br />
prayer, Raas Lila, Satriya dances and<br />
so on.<br />
Lesson 2: it costs nothing to treat others<br />
with dignity, politeness and respect<br />
and for peace of mind one does<br />
not need material comforts.<br />
The New Year eve party took the<br />
form of a singing contest dedicated<br />
to finding the “ Voice of Majuli”. It<br />
was entertaining. We were towards<br />
the backend of the auditorium. A<br />
group of local youngsters came towards<br />
us and asked, “Where do you<br />
come from” to which I said “ Bopai,<br />
Aami Dibrugarhar”. Profusely apologetic,<br />
they insisted on us sitting down<br />
in the front row. The heavy presence<br />
of security was quite daunting especially<br />
when the power supply got cut<br />
off.<br />
The New Years Eve dinner was a take<br />
away from the aforementioned “not<br />
very appetising place” but we were<br />
hungry and relished the fried fish.<br />
Sleeping under a mosquito net was a<br />
novelty experienced after many<br />
years. The lady of the house cooked<br />
the Luchi Bhajee breakfast the following<br />
morning. We planned to visit<br />
another Satra but the condition of the<br />
road deteriorated after a few<br />
kilometres from where we were stay-<br />
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ing and we abandoned the trip and<br />
headed for the boat to continue our<br />
quest for heritage – Bordowa that is<br />
the subject of part 2.<br />
What a remarkable and humbling experience<br />
– we said<br />
to one another on<br />
the boat.<br />
By Ranjit K Baruah<br />
Nottingham<br />
England<br />
Ranjit Baruah was born and brought<br />
up in Jorhat, Assam. He is one of 5<br />
children who started Balya Bhavan<br />
which was avant-garde in primary<br />
school education and was the first ever<br />
school in Assam that adopted the<br />
Montessory method. He went onto to<br />
graduate from Assam Medical College,<br />
Dibrugarh and then joined the<br />
Indian Armed Forces Medical Services<br />
for 4 years. After a short period of<br />
employment in the tea industry he<br />
came to the United Kingdom and went<br />
onto train in Psychiatry at Dumfries,<br />
Scotland and then at Canterbury and<br />
London in England. He was appointed<br />
a Consultant Psychiatrist in<br />
Nottingham in 1981 where he still lives<br />
with his wife. After holding several offices<br />
for the Royal College of Psychiatrists<br />
both locally and centrally in<br />
London he retired from active clinical<br />
practice as a Clinical Director,<br />
Rampton Hospital which is one of 3<br />
high security psychiatric hospitals in<br />
England being responsible for day today<br />
running of some 250 beds. Since<br />
retirement he and his wife have spent<br />
most of their time in travelling all over<br />
the world including regular trips to<br />
India.
Drugs, An Unholy suffering<br />
Death, death, and only death! This<br />
is the only synonym one can<br />
think for drugs. Smaller than<br />
bullets, lighter than grenades, but they<br />
can kill a whole man, a whole human,<br />
slowly, very slowly, causing a very<br />
deadly and painful death.<br />
Everybody knows, the substances behind<br />
the five letters “drugs” are dangerous,<br />
but still addiction is increasing day<br />
by day. But, why? What is the reason<br />
behind it?<br />
A few months ago, I went to a friend’s<br />
place for a visit, but what I saw, when I<br />
entered his flat was really shocking. It<br />
shook the whole of my body—— it was<br />
a different picture, a totally different<br />
one…!!!<br />
The “evening time” atmosphere was<br />
quite sizzling. It was a fog of smoke, just<br />
like something extraterrestrial. I saw 10<br />
young people, 19 to 25 years of age, including<br />
my friend, enjoying heaven.<br />
“Guns ‘n Roses” screamed out through<br />
the music system making the situation<br />
rock! They were passing - lighted cigarette<br />
to each other.<br />
Cigarette? Wait a minute!<br />
Not ordinary ones!!<br />
These are the cigarettes stuffed with<br />
dope—”bhang”,<br />
They took out the tobacco from the cigarettes<br />
and stuffed it with bhang. When I<br />
asked “But, why?” one of them replied,<br />
“I dope every weekend just to relax”.<br />
The other one said he is addicted. There<br />
were not only boys in the group, but girls<br />
as well. This was just a single scene in<br />
the world; there are thousands of similar<br />
scenes happening every minute<br />
around the world.<br />
Young people are attracted to charas,<br />
ganja, brown sugar, S.P<br />
(spasmoproxyvom), nitro (nitrosum) and<br />
other deadly weapons, all known as<br />
drugs. Most surprising is the fact is that,<br />
these things are easily available in the<br />
market; just, and you must have good<br />
contact.<br />
At first brokers who sell drugs, sell it<br />
cheap, but when one is addicted, they<br />
charge like anything. Consequently, once<br />
addicted, a youngster will do anything<br />
to get his or her fix, even stealing and<br />
ruining own and family’s life.<br />
And at last….<br />
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”Death”-- on the Doorstep.<br />
The law is not able to trace it although<br />
it’s strict.<br />
Why?<br />
“We take it only to be relaxed with our<br />
heavy schedules at work”,<br />
“But end up in addiction?” When<br />
asked—— there was no answer.<br />
This alarmingly rising trend may be attributed<br />
to pressure, both at school and<br />
work, and peer pressure—trying to be<br />
cool among friends. Although they seem<br />
to be aware of the consequences of prolonged<br />
and sustain abuse, young men<br />
and women are using it. Most of them<br />
start as occasional users or when they<br />
try to be a part of a happening crowd.<br />
But alas! They end up regulars.<br />
There must be control over these activities.<br />
It is OK to be cool with them; family<br />
members should keep an eye on the<br />
activities of their children, but never be<br />
harsh with them. Most importantly, it is<br />
your “WILL”; you should be strong<br />
enough to avoid these “deadly weapons”<br />
and lead a happy and healthy life.<br />
A relief, a satisfaction for a few minutes,<br />
a few hours or a day can cause everlasting<br />
pain.<br />
“An unholy suffering leading to the hell<br />
of death”<br />
By, Pranjal Saikia, Pune, India<br />
Saraswati Puja Celebrated in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai<br />
Saraswati Puja, the annual worship of the Goddess of<br />
knowledge, music, speech and writing, was celebrated<br />
with great enthusiasm for the first time in Mumbai’s<br />
satellite city of Navi Mumbai. It was organized by Kingkhap<br />
Asomiya Mahila Samiti, the women’s wing of the Kharghar<br />
Asomiya Samaj, on Vasant Panchami Day, the 11 th February<br />
<strong>2008</strong>.<br />
The puja began in the morning with pandits reciting slokas<br />
and mantras as the devotees watched. Everyone took the<br />
blessings of the Goddess and participated in the mass<br />
pushpanjali program that when flowers are offered at the feet<br />
of the Goddess Maa Saraswati; in return, she bestows them<br />
with the gift of knowledge. The pushpanjali program was<br />
followed by a traditional Assamese mah-prasad and finally<br />
bhog consisting of khichidi and payox (kheer) and other<br />
delicacies offered during the occasion. The serpentine queue<br />
that was seen in the post-puja session bore testimony to the<br />
huge turnout that thronged the Tirupati Arcade Campus.<br />
After successful organization of Saraswati Puja, the Kingkhap Asomiya Mahila Samiti, made plans to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 th<br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
By Rubi Borgohain, Mumbai, India
Indian souls.<br />
Our Mother Country is Britain,<br />
Our Parents’ is India<br />
Ihave nothing new to say to those<br />
who heard this before, but<br />
sometimes repetition reinforces sad<br />
truths and calls for change of pace.<br />
Some may accuse me of tarring all with<br />
the same brush but in social<br />
anthropology one has to generalize.<br />
Exceptions do not break the rule.<br />
Some might have heard from their<br />
children (raised in the West) that India<br />
was nothing but a land of half-naked<br />
fakirs before the British went there and<br />
colonized it. Some children and adults<br />
might go on to list of facts to buttress<br />
their claims - like bringing in the<br />
railroad to link various parts of India<br />
and modern technology, and of course<br />
democracy. Of course, it is sad but true<br />
that railroad and the steam engine were<br />
not invented in India. They were<br />
invented in Great Britain. It is also<br />
deplorable that Indians talk only about<br />
the glorious past (which anyway many<br />
historians dispute - like Harvard’s<br />
Indology Prof. Witzel). It is also sad<br />
that while many first generation NRIs<br />
or NRAs have visions of a civilized<br />
land of their forefathers, many in the<br />
second generation contend that it was<br />
no way superior to that of the Britain<br />
or the United Kingdom - their Mother<br />
Country. America’s Mother Country!<br />
As part of Americanization, it is the<br />
duty of all citizens to uphold the<br />
concept of Mother Nation. India has<br />
no Mother Country. USA has a mother<br />
country - Great Britain.<br />
In this context, what should be<br />
expected from second or third<br />
generation Indian Americans?<br />
Should they be expected to uphold the<br />
interests of their Mother Country or<br />
that of India - the land of their<br />
forefathers?<br />
WHY MOTHER COUNTRY<br />
BRITAIN IS A BETTER DEAL<br />
It is true that Mother Country provides<br />
a more welcoming smile - better<br />
colleges (like Rhodes scholarship to<br />
Oxford University to Piyush “Bobby”<br />
Jindal, the new governor of Louisiana)<br />
which result in more acclaim when<br />
they return to the US. The stay there<br />
makes their accent even better - British<br />
accent is favored even above the New<br />
England one. What does India have to<br />
offer besides a visit to Grandma’s<br />
home? Further, Mother Country<br />
Britain helped the USA during the<br />
World Wars and current Iraq War. What<br />
did land of forefathers, India, do?<br />
Nothing! No wait - it is taking away<br />
American jobs through outsourcing.<br />
Now some second generation Indian<br />
Americans are forced to work or do<br />
internships in Bangalore. None wants<br />
to go to IITs to study or teach.<br />
SOCIO-ECONOMIC<br />
CHALLENGES FOR 2 nd<br />
GENERATION NRI CHILDREN<br />
It is true that if a child has to grow up<br />
in an immigrant family in the USA or<br />
anywhere else, it is a great challenge,<br />
since the s/he has no support network<br />
of a large family - the way these kids<br />
have who have all their grandparents<br />
and all their relatives in the USA.<br />
Those Indian American kids have it<br />
tough - who have no support network<br />
or endowment backing their trip to elite<br />
colleges or helping them get jobs in top<br />
firms where a phone call from<br />
“someone you know” lands jobs<br />
(ceteris paribus - all else remaining<br />
equal). Thus, Indian Americans turn to<br />
top quality education to open closed<br />
doors to success. And success is<br />
generally defined in a very<br />
materialistic sense for most Indian<br />
Americans. Materialistic people should<br />
not be expected to go out and save the<br />
BRAIN GAIN OR BRAIN DRAIN<br />
OR SOUL IN THE DRAIN<br />
Maybe some have indeed gone to India<br />
to save souls - in the spiritual sense.<br />
However, none seem to remain for their<br />
entire lives (like Mother Teresa) to take<br />
care of the Indian economy. The World<br />
Bank was formed for the<br />
reconstruction of Europe following<br />
World War Two. It was the USA who<br />
wanted to help the land of its Mother<br />
Country and other European nations.<br />
Which Indian American organization<br />
is there to help the cause? Which<br />
organization is there which can counter<br />
the claim by top economists (like<br />
Harvard Business School professor<br />
Mihir Desai - second generation Indian<br />
American) that India is losing ten<br />
percent of its national income because<br />
a million of their educated elite<br />
(including perhaps his parents) have<br />
seen it fit to head West (Desai, 2002).<br />
Some at ILO (International Labor<br />
Organization) said thing along the<br />
same lines - that Indians should remain<br />
in India or the brain drain would<br />
damage Indian economy<br />
(www.ilo.org/dyn/idea/<br />
ideasheet.display?p_idea_id=20).<br />
I wonder how many of the Indian<br />
Americans have thought of calculating<br />
how much did Britain lose when its<br />
citizens left its shores to head for the<br />
USA. Why such step-motherly attitude<br />
towards the Mother Country of USA?<br />
No one in the USA accuses a<br />
Frenchman of being a FOB or then why<br />
do some look down on anything Indian?<br />
Russell Peters is a shining example<br />
youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI -<br />
though some are quite interestingly<br />
done - making fun of cricket, Indian<br />
food, Yoga, Hare Krishna<br />
youtube.com/watch?v=<br />
owK5tHjL0aE 12 days of Christmas.<br />
Any comments?<br />
Umesh Sharma<br />
Washington DC<br />
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SPACE – An Introduction<br />
Peering into a clear sky on a starry<br />
night, one can experience and marvel<br />
at the unique beauty of the universe<br />
around us in the harmonious space of three<br />
dimensions. This observed space is filled<br />
with familiar heavenly objects - planets,<br />
stars, the Milky Way and much more. The<br />
mystifying spectacle of the night’s<br />
firmament has evoked a myriad of questions<br />
in the mind of the Homo sapiens during more<br />
than two hundred thousand years of its<br />
existence on earth. The earliest answers to<br />
these questions derived from superstition,<br />
philosophy, religion and fear abound in the<br />
literature and folklore of all peoples. But, it<br />
was not until the Renaissance period that<br />
scientific methods were applied and theories<br />
developed to explain the motion of stars and<br />
planets.<br />
The early Greeks postulated that planets and<br />
other observable heavenly bodies move<br />
around a fixed earth that is located at the<br />
center. This was the concept of a geocentric<br />
universe. Around 300 B.C., Aristarchus of<br />
Samos floated the idea that the sun was fixed<br />
and the planets including the earth were in<br />
circular orbits around the sun. This was the<br />
first attempt of a heliocentric concept of the<br />
universe. This concept, however, was too<br />
revolutionary for the time and was rejected,<br />
and the geocentric theory continued to be<br />
the accepted theory. In the second century<br />
A.D., Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Ptolemy), a<br />
Greek astronomer to whom the geocentric<br />
concept is generally attributed, farther<br />
amplified the geocentric theory of the<br />
universe.<br />
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543),<br />
a Polish astronomer of German descent,<br />
published De revolutionibus orbitum<br />
coelestium (On the Revolutions of the<br />
Heavenly Spheres) and reintroduced the idea<br />
of a heliocentric universe. Although there<br />
were inaccuracies in his theory, it was a<br />
major advance in concept.<br />
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a Viennese<br />
mathematician and an assistant to Danish<br />
nobleman astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-<br />
1601), analyzed his own observations and<br />
those of Tycho Brahe and arrived at three<br />
laws of planetary motion known as Kepler’s<br />
Laws that form the basis of modern celestial<br />
mechanics.<br />
Nicolaus Copernicus<br />
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian<br />
physicist, astronomer and philosopher, who<br />
is considered the father of scientific method,<br />
was the first observer using a star gazing<br />
telescope and he lent credence to the<br />
Copernican model of the universe.<br />
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), British<br />
physicist, astronomer, mathematician,<br />
alchemist, and inventor actively pursued the<br />
theories of the “modern” scientists such as<br />
Copernicus and Kepler. In 1661, he joined<br />
Trinity College, Cambridge where he<br />
became a Professor. In 1666 he took an 18-<br />
month “sabbatical” as Cambridge closed due<br />
to Plague epidemic and proceeded to<br />
develop the basis for:<br />
- Laws of motion<br />
- Laws of Gravity<br />
- Modern Optical Theory<br />
- Differential Calculus<br />
In 1687, Newton published Philosophiae<br />
Naturalis Principia Mathematica<br />
(“Mathematical Principles of Natural<br />
Philosophy”) also known simply as<br />
Johannes Kepler<br />
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Sir Isaac Newton<br />
Principia. In Principia, Newton established<br />
his three laws of motion regarding Inertia,<br />
Acceleration and Action/Reaction. He also<br />
enunciated the law of gravitation that every<br />
mass attracts every other mass by a force<br />
directed along the line connecting the two.<br />
This force is proportional to the product of<br />
the masses and inversely proportional to the<br />
square of the distance between them.<br />
Whereas Kepler described how planets<br />
move around the sun, Newton’s laws gave<br />
the mathematical basis for doing so.<br />
Newton’s discovery catapulted astronomy<br />
into a new era and opened the avenue for<br />
computing trajectories and orbits of manmade<br />
satellites.<br />
The foregoing discourse mainly pertains to<br />
the near earth space where lies the more<br />
practical and immediate interest of mankind.<br />
Man has made significant strides in utilizing<br />
this space for a multitude of benefits—both<br />
civil and military. The near earth space is<br />
indeed the next logical frontier for adventure<br />
of mankind. This space presents the ultimate<br />
high ground for humanity from which to<br />
control its own destiny. This is the space<br />
where man has begun travel. Travel to the<br />
moon has already been accomplished and<br />
manned travel to the planet Mars is being<br />
contemplated. Artificial earth satellites<br />
packed with ultra sensitive sensors for<br />
multitude of missions are now hurtling<br />
through space in elliptical orbits around the<br />
earth gathering and/or transmitting data. In<br />
the process, our understanding of our own<br />
planet and the rest of the universe is<br />
leapfrogging and communication and<br />
entertainment through radio and television<br />
media has precipitated a global village<br />
environment. The Hubble Space Telescope,<br />
the Gamma Ray Observatory and the<br />
Chandra X-Ray Observatory are all armed<br />
with sensors operating far beyond the range<br />
of human senses. Results of observation<br />
made by these instruments from the vantage<br />
point of space unperturbed by the blanket<br />
of atmosphere that envelops the earth, have<br />
revolutionized our understanding of the<br />
cosmos. The International Space Station<br />
moving at a near earth orbit at an altitude of<br />
about 250 statute miles is now serving as a<br />
manned outpost in space to facilitate a
variety of activities in a unique free fall<br />
environment.<br />
Furthermore, one cannot overemphasize the<br />
military implications of utilization of space.<br />
During the last quarter of a century, the star<br />
war scenario has been visualized. When the<br />
Chinese destroyed one of their own satellites<br />
recently using a rocket, lot of eyebrows were<br />
raised around the world. Similarly, a recent<br />
successful destruction of a defunct satellite<br />
by USA using rockets by precision strike of<br />
the hydrazine propellant tank of the satellite,<br />
also proved how space can be militarized if<br />
wanted. Today, global military and<br />
battlefield communication is dependent on<br />
satellites. Debilitating these satellites will<br />
wreak havoc on strategy of military<br />
planners.<br />
An indispensable part of<br />
the space exploration is<br />
the delivery vehicles<br />
which lift off with space<br />
deliverables to place<br />
them at the right place in<br />
space. Variety of rockets<br />
like Atlas and Delta<br />
series of USA, Soyuz of<br />
Russia, Long <strong>March</strong> of<br />
China, Ariane of Europe,<br />
H-Series of Japan and<br />
PSLV & GSLV rockets<br />
of India are now all<br />
delivering space articles.<br />
Welcome Ayesha!<br />
Space Shuttle Lift Off<br />
International Space Station<br />
For more than a quarter century now, Space<br />
Shuttles that will be retired in 2012, have<br />
been regularly making rendezvous with the<br />
International Space Station (ISS) to deliver<br />
man and material.<br />
Trying to understand the nature of the<br />
universe unto its furthest realm is the other<br />
strong urge of mankind regarding space. The<br />
universe as we know today consists of<br />
billions of galaxies including our own Milky<br />
Way Galaxy of which Sun is a part. The size<br />
of the universe is mind boggling-at least 93<br />
billion light years across meaning that it will<br />
take light wave traveling at a speed of<br />
186,000 miles/sec, 93 billion years to travel<br />
from one end of the universe to the other.<br />
According to the well-accepted Big Bang<br />
Theory, the universe began at one cosmic<br />
moment about 13 .73 billion years ago from<br />
a single point of infinite mass and energy<br />
when there was nothing else around. Initially<br />
the universe was small and dense. With time<br />
it expanded and the current thinking is that<br />
it is expanding at a ever faster rate meaning<br />
that the galaxies are moving farther apart<br />
from one another. The question then is what<br />
is the destiny of our<br />
universe? There does<br />
not seem to be an<br />
answer yet.<br />
Umesh C. Tahbildar<br />
Tarali Sarma<br />
to perform at<br />
Assam <strong>2008</strong><br />
Preeti and Ankur Baishya of California were blessed<br />
with a baby girl Ayesha on Friday, <strong>March</strong> 21, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
For event details, please visit<br />
www.assam<strong>2008</strong>.com<br />
Page 9 * POSOOWA, <strong>March</strong> <strong>2008</strong>
A Tribute to Xilo-Bhodro<br />
The Assamese writer Rebati Dutta<br />
Choudhury is no more. The news<br />
first registered on me rather casually.<br />
Personally, I did not know Dutta<br />
Choudhury very well. But the more I<br />
thought about him, the more I realized<br />
that I admired him a lot. My admiration<br />
for him was from a distance. I admired<br />
him first as a prolific Assamese short<br />
story writer. He wrote a total of about<br />
500 short stories. This compares well<br />
with popular short story writers like O.<br />
Henry who wrote about 600 short stories.<br />
Second, I admired him as an excellent<br />
teacher of mathematics. He was a professor<br />
of mathematics and he taught us<br />
higher mathematics in Assam Engineering<br />
College. I was very impressed by his<br />
casual and unassuming method of teaching<br />
higher mathematics. This made a<br />
lasting impression on me of him as well<br />
as of mathematics, which has always<br />
been one of my favorite subjects. His<br />
life showed that literature and mathematics<br />
go well together.<br />
Moreover, I admired him for the tidbits<br />
of life stories that I heard about him from<br />
his younger brother, Kalyan Dutta<br />
Choudhury--a close friend of mine.<br />
Kalyan was very close to his elder<br />
brother, a very compassionate person. I<br />
could sense how broken Kalyan was<br />
Reboti Mohan Dutta<br />
when he sent me the email from Berkley,<br />
California; "I was shocked to get the<br />
sad news this morning of my brother<br />
Rebati's (Xilo-bhodro’s) death. He was<br />
sick off and on for some time. But, who<br />
in his or her right mind would think of<br />
the death of a very dear one? He was<br />
more than a brother to me. He was like a<br />
solid responsible father-figure melded<br />
into a loving and lovable brother." I immediately<br />
called him, and tried to share<br />
his sorrow. We talked about his writings<br />
and much more.<br />
Rebati Dutta Choudhury was more<br />
Goodbye soldier! You always<br />
fought a clean and fair fight<br />
Iwas shocked to get the sad news this<br />
morning of my brother Rebati Dutta<br />
Choudhury’s (Shilabhadra) death. He<br />
was sick off and on for some time. But, who<br />
in his or her right mind would think of the<br />
death of a very dear one?<br />
When my wife returned from a recent trip<br />
home, she brought with her the two volumes<br />
of his collected works published recently.<br />
My brother lavished praise on the young<br />
publisher who had the same name as his life-<br />
long friend Benoy Tumuli. The two volumes<br />
were a gift for us, and each one was signed<br />
by him separately with his characteristic<br />
style: ‘Dear Moina’ form of addressing me,<br />
and ending with blessings and the signature<br />
‘Dada’. Nobody else had earned the right to<br />
call him Dada.<br />
He was more than a brother to me. He was a<br />
solid responsible father figure melded into<br />
a loving and lovable brother. Talking about<br />
his indulgence towards me, he would let me,<br />
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popularly known by his pseudo name,<br />
Xilo-bhodro, in the Assamese literary<br />
world. He was a prolific Assamese<br />
writer. Besides short stories, he also<br />
wrote some novels. But it is mainly for<br />
his short stories, I think he will be remembered.<br />
In his short stories, one finds<br />
a method of expressing complex ideas<br />
and themes in the most<br />
casual manner of writing.<br />
Coming from Gauripur,<br />
the western corner of<br />
Assam, his style of writing<br />
was not traditional<br />
Assamese This made his<br />
stories more beautiful and<br />
added a new color to the<br />
wider Assamese literature.<br />
He used to write stories<br />
about his imaginary<br />
hometown of Madhupur,<br />
which seemed as romantic<br />
as the town Gauripur<br />
from where he hailed. His<br />
writing always reminded<br />
me of another Indian writer,<br />
R.K.Narayan who also used to write<br />
about his imaginary hometown,<br />
Malgudi. In the style of writing also, one<br />
may find some similarity of writing<br />
simple expressions. Now when I think<br />
about his writing, I think his writings<br />
reflect the existential philosophy to an<br />
extent. I do not know if any other<br />
Assamese writer has been categorized as<br />
an existential writer. On a final note, in<br />
his death, Assam has lost a legendary<br />
writer who will be remembered for long.<br />
Rajen Barua<br />
Houston<br />
at my stubborn insistence, take a puff or two<br />
from his cigarettes when I was very young.<br />
He was a college student then. He went out<br />
of the way to meet all my monetary and<br />
emotional needs. When I was spending too<br />
much money, he would reluctantly let me<br />
know. In return, I paid no attention to him,<br />
and he didn’t care. All the expense of my<br />
marriage as well coming to the US was borne<br />
by him. I was, as usual, solid broke at those<br />
crucial time points.<br />
When our father died at an early age, I was<br />
barely two and he was fifteen or sixteen,<br />
barely out of high school. The solid bonds<br />
started then as a father figure, and the bond<br />
remained undiminished and unsullied over<br />
the long years.
In some respects, I struggled all my life to<br />
accept his two sons and I still do, particularly<br />
with the oldest one, as my nephews rather<br />
than my younger brothers. My casual<br />
relationship with them reflects that<br />
ambiguity. It created internal conflicts<br />
within me too. When my brother brought<br />
home bars of Cadbury chocolate apparently<br />
for his young son Raju, I would be the first<br />
one to hurriedly step out of my room and<br />
receive him at the door, and grab my share<br />
of the bars as he was emptying his pockets<br />
on the table. I was in my mid-twenties then<br />
and was working. But, I was staying with<br />
him. Staying separately was out of the<br />
question.<br />
I had seen my brother work hard both in<br />
literary and ‘thikadari’ fields. He revived my<br />
father’s faltering brick-manufacturing<br />
business and successfully expanded it into<br />
other areas to pay for the educational and<br />
other expenses of the large family. He<br />
splurged on buying books. It felt like the<br />
lone bookstore Silk House in Dhubri<br />
survived on the liberal patronage of my<br />
brother. My brother liked eating good food,<br />
preferably, cooked at home. He liked the<br />
English translation of his stories by my wife.<br />
He liked her simple style and formulation<br />
of the essentials.<br />
But, he needed a change of pace, in content<br />
and style. Literature was the right choice for<br />
him. Assamese, the language of the masses,<br />
was his preferred choice of medium to<br />
‘converse’ with real people like the<br />
extremely lovable Ketu, Rajani, and many<br />
others such as my grandfather who was from<br />
Chenga.<br />
He couldn’t express enough of his<br />
indebtedness to both fellow litterateurs<br />
Homen Borgohain and Chandra Prasad<br />
Saikia for helping him out in many ways<br />
during his literary career. He was all praise<br />
for Monju Baruah, the owner and operator<br />
of Wild Grass Hotel at Kaziranga, at whose<br />
invitation he spent some days at the resort<br />
hotel with his family and grandchildren. In<br />
a quiet sitting in his house with my wife, he<br />
spoke of Baruah’s love of literature and the<br />
environment.<br />
He was good in English and math. He wrote<br />
an article or two in English back in 1954 in<br />
the Assam Tribune when he was working<br />
there as a sub-editor of the newspaper. One<br />
of the articles was titled ‘On Smartness and<br />
Intelligence’ written with the backdrop of a<br />
tea garden mechanic who found himself lost<br />
in Calcutta for training on a piece of<br />
machinery. He regarded the English<br />
language as a very powerful useful tool, tool<br />
only, for exploration of new territories and<br />
amassing knowledge. But, there the<br />
usefulness ends.<br />
He was good with mathematics. He taught<br />
superbly ‘transmission lines’ to the electrical<br />
engineering students at the Assam<br />
Engineering College. He taught<br />
mathematics (Analysis) at the Gauhati<br />
University. He maintained with the owners<br />
of the said newspaper a close and enduring<br />
relationship.<br />
Well done, my dear ‘Dada’! You taught me<br />
mathematics when I was floundering, and<br />
you always told me to write very simple but<br />
correct English sentences instead of writing<br />
sloppy, long and incorrect sentences. I never<br />
had trouble with math since you started<br />
teaching it to me. But, I’ll keep on trying to<br />
improve my English. My regret is that I<br />
couldn’t show you that I could write in<br />
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Assamese too. How could I divorce myself<br />
from the beautiful heritage of my<br />
grandfather?<br />
The people of Assam in general, and<br />
Gauripur in particular, will remember you<br />
forever as a decent, responsible and sensitive<br />
human being. The scholarships you have set<br />
up at ‘your school’ in the name of our parents<br />
and Niru Vinihi are in good and capable<br />
hands. Goodbye!<br />
Kalyan Dutta-Choudhury<br />
Berkeley, California
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<strong>Posoowa</strong> is published monthly. Dhruba Das, on behalf of Assam Society of America, has published this issue of <strong>Posoowa</strong>. The<br />
editors are Ankur Bora (Texas), Babul Gogoi (New Delhi, India), Ganesh Bora (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Jugal Kalita (Colorado<br />
Springs, Colorado, Editor-in-Chief), Kaushik Phukan (Seattle, Washington), Manoj Kumar Das (New Delhi), Rini Kakati (London,<br />
UK), Sanchayita Sharma (London, UK), Satyam Bhuyan (Ames, Iowa), Umesh Sharma (College Park, Washington D.C) and<br />
Umesh Tahbildar (Princeton, New Jersey). Design and Layout: Babul Gogoi.<br />
The ASA Executive Committee is composed of Dhruba Das, President (Coatesville, Pennsylvania), Kabita Sharma (Hillsborough,<br />
New Jersey), Vice President, Mukul Chowdhary (Edison, New Jersey), Treasurer, and Ganesh Bora (Lake Alfred, Florida),<br />
General Secretary.<br />
We invite contributors from all over the world. We appreciate your valuable feedback, comments & suggestions, and of course,<br />
news from your part of the world for inclusion in the coming editions. Please send your written contributions to<br />
posoowa@assam.org. If you prefer, you can send your contributions directly to any of the editors listed above as well. Any<br />
contribution must be 750 words or shorter in length. Please include a scanned image of the author. We also request you to submit<br />
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