bloodshed in heaven, terrorism......

Assam, it is the very heart of the entire North-east, the great indian appendage that prevents all chinese pretension of dominance in the peninsula. A land as rich in it's flaura and fauna as in the multitude of races that pride in being called Assamese. I say to you whoever reads this now...if you want heaven and donot find it in Kashmir...come here.

And yet it would seem that the great valley is being tainted red in these past years and even now.....Explosions rip apart people, thier blood forever staining the land, bullets cutting short lives that would have otherwise gone on to lend solidarity to community, bandhs that stop the beating heart of life, economy vital to the existence of a prosperous state. Yet, every morning people here wake up, greet the sun and step out of thier houses just the same.

I was here when the recent blasts, that occured in the main marketting and heavily populated areas of Guwahati happened. Just the other day, a big blast had occured in the marketing complex where our nighbour owned a shop, when i asked her if it didn't seem a bit dangerous to go there again, she replied, very sedately, yes. Then turned around and went all the same.
This is the steel that makes an Assamese.

The ULFA have become nearly mad in thier 'struggle'...striking at will wherever thier fancy takes them, makin no difference between friend and foe. As is apparent in the number of civilian lives that have gone into the list of thier murders in the past few years. And this from an Organisation that preached the sanctity of assamese life. As of now, they have most seemingly become puppets to the ministers, or politicians. And yet they insist on thier name.

Not only them, Assam these days has become a breeding ground of all sorts of militant organisations, the dimasas, the karbis, the Boros...all of these communties have militant organisations and all screaming for a part of mother Assam. not to mention the Rabid nagas.

if only they would have realised that thier efforts would be much better spent if directed towards maintaining the unity in the region, indepent existence is a very fluid concept. But that is something they should learn.

And all the while the centre looks on, vaguely aware what is happenin.......
i think it is time we the young generation rose to take control and responsibilty of the situation. but the question will remain, are the people who live in Assam assamese or should only the assames inhabit Assam?