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“Over 50 people were killed and over 140 others injured in 18 serial blasts, which rocked busy areas of Guwahati and three other districts in Assam on Thursday (October 30). Ten persons have died in Guwahati that witnessed four blasts while 10 others were killed in Kokrajhar town where three explosions occurred, police said, adding the toll is expected to rise as many of the injured were in a serious condition.” -Times Now

“At least 39 people have been killed and 196 others injured in 11 bomb blasts which rocked Guwahati and some other cities of Assam on Thursday morning. In Guwahati the blasts took place on Dispur Road, Pan Bazaar, Ganeshguri and Fancy Bazaar.

More bombs exploded in Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Bongaigoan districts. The bomb at Ganeshguri was planted in a car and took place about 100 meters from Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s official residence.” -CNN IBN

“Following the blasts, which the police suspect to be the handiwork of the banned ULFA and HUJI extremists, a red alert was sounded across the state and prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC were promulgated in Guwahati” -NDTV

This is the news till now…I am sure the death toll will increase high..UNFORTUNATE..We are one step towards extinction again!

Lots of anger is shown against the government and administration! But it will not help. Bombs have exploded in areas like near by Courts, DC offices etc. So there will be a question of how secured these areas…But will it solve the problem if secure some places, spots. No! We need to secure the whole state. Need to close the pores in the borders. Just closing the main door will not help until and unless we make our walls strong!

The biggest question now will be who has done this. Fingers are already up to ULFA. Which is the easiest solution for the govt and police to blame ULFA and aloof themselves from proper investigations! They will say ULFA with the help of Bangladesh. But I can assure anyone it is only Bangladesh who is the culprit. The communal violence was already on in those places recently. And the bangladeshis are taking revenge. They are growing so strong! Its not an ordinary blasts and in decades of terrorism such kind of blasts never occurred in Assam.

Our honorable CM has already told that the situation is in control. So peace prevails in Guwahati right now!

There are already concerns in the whole country for Bangladesh in the recent blasts. And unlike any other incidents in Assam this high intensity bombs has attracted attentions of media this time, hope this will shake the central govt to take serious steps against Bangladesh!   

Let’s watch how it moves!

Abhijit Borah

Context : “As the orgy of ethnic violence between Bodos and Muslim immigrants spread to newer areas of northern Assam and the death toll Indian Army patrolling the riot affected Bhakatpara village in Udalguri district of Assam……………….” 

It is really more than sad to see how the value of human life is decreasing in the whole world. And none can be more hapless than those people who became homeless in their own homeland.

I wonder who will ever rescue us from such grave situations. But in reality, we have written our own faith. We fought against each other for decades..Divided ourselves from one community ‘Assamese’ to variuos sections like Bodo, Rabha, Karbi, Chaotal, Muslims and so so..I am ignorant of the exact list of late as being stayed outside Assam for quite a long time..But we are claiming ourselves how different by origin from every other person…We first seprated out other Indians, we never stopped, then among ourselves..This is a big injury and getting deeper day by day.  

I have read many posts where the incident was taken positively, expecting it would unite people in Assam. But that is not true. I was exactly there in Assam(Sivasagar/ Guwahati) in those days…I hardly saw any concern in anyones’ face..Today in the other part of the state, people are just ignoring it..’It’s Bodo Land. Violences are very common there!’..This reluctant mentality will bring up the same kind of situation in other part of the state and then it will be too late!

But the question is who is going to make people understand? Everyone is after easy money in Assam..You will find everything there, it’s not less modern than any part of the country..But the only two things missing are honesty and non-violence! ..I am not saying that in other part of the country people are honest. But in my homeland it is unbearably dishonest. No honesty at home, no honesty in office, no honesty in temples..honesty no where! And we are the most violent in this country..We don’t think twice to cut down our brothers!Unfortunat ely the young generation(myself too) is the most dishonest and easy-money-hunter.

I cann’t do anything staying here outside Assam, but pray our politicians to go to the hell..I just can’t tolerate to see any of those old disgusting faces. I haven’t seen more stupid politicians( !!!) than ours. They will run after the foreign(immigrants? ) votes whose number is still pretty less compared to indigenous people!.But they will never think that they would have got all the votes of local people if they would have deported all the foreigners!. .In the present date I can’t even imagine a single face in the whole political world of Assam who has the potentiality to save Assam!

Lastly I have no sympathy for those outsiders/immigrant s, so called minority(should be majority in numbers!). There were times many decades ago or may be centuries ago, migrations happened!..But those people assimialted to the Assamese culture and community making our community strong.. But in recent days, the migrants are real violent and criminals!.. These people will never get mixed into the society like ‘oil can’t be mixed  with water’ just pollutes the water!..I wonder will ever be this pollution stop?..They will use our land for agriculture, build homes in our land, live lives on our Rupees, use all Government facilities and finally will ATTACK us?..I watched a interview of a small boy in ‘News Live’ channel complaining about something from those relief camps.. I was astonished to listen to new genre of Assamese languge, I am not sure if in some part of Bangaldesh Assmese is spoke and the boy speaks the same!..And he was projected was victim
and thousands of them were protected well in the relief camps by our own adiministration! … And our government will offically settle them in some lands..and they will have more right than any local people for those lands!. .And this is how we are losing!..Its was sad that only ndfb members were arrested but none from the so called ‘minority’ community!

I don’t know if a miracle happen to this land of ONCE most innocent,simplest, peaceful people in India! I don’t know if the next generation will be honest!..I don’t know if someone will rise to rescue us and show no mercy to the immigrants and terrorists!

Thanks and Regards,
Abhijit Borah

Waiter serves a plate full of dumplings on the table……Topped with coriander & lip smacking green chilly paste…& to add to your appetite, a bowl of hot clear soup…

I inhale a little longer than I generally do, as the aroma of the green chilly paste & peppercorn over the soup stimulates my senses… & the glutton in me is ready to gorge on the food placed in front of me…..The pleasure is all mine…there’s only 1 thing to say… I LOVE MOMOS

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Sunday afternoon… the heat is on, as summer has just begun….Mummy is busy cooking in the kitchen… & my dad, a foodie, is all set to make my Sunday afternoon meal a real tasty one…

He takes a bowl full of boiled jackfruit seeds (Kothal Guti) from mummy… As I flip through the TV channels, dad takes a fork to mash the boiled stuff…. Other additions: a little mustard oil, grated bamboo shoot (Baah gaaz in Assamese), salt, finely chopped onions & chillies…& its ready

Yummy….my mouth is already watering & I keep on asking my mom if food is ready to be served… Afterall, I am eagerly       waiting to savor “Kothal guti aaru baah gaazor pitika” (Mashed jackfruit seed with bamboo shoot)

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A combination of grated bamboo shoot & the hottest chilly in the world…. “Korisa-bee jolokia acchar”….Its so tasty that I can just eat plain rice with it & would require nothing else…no dal, no sabzi…Infact, the very sight & aroma of the pickle can make a person hungry

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Apart from the above three, my favorite recipes also include tomato-mustard fish curry (Machor tenga), brinjal & potato mash (Beygana-aloo pitika), Banana flower sabzi (Koldil), Banana stem sabzi (Posola), special mustard paste (Kasundi), Khar (made with papaya) etc.

I wish I could go back home & gorge on Assamese cuisine

Sayanika Dutta,

ETV Networks, Hyderabad

How have I been managing 24 hours of each day for last few months? If I ever try to answer it as ‘badly’, I always rethink, is it the proper word? Probably not! …A feeling of self satisfaction when I say to myself, too much of office works!! .. So no more arguments and so no regrets for not watching TVs, not reading a book, not reading a newspaper.. even not surfing around orkut or facebook!..And this is the reason why this website is also lying half dead for many months!

But fortunately I had to visit one of my cousin’s home to meet his parents a week back..I feel it is fortunate because I got a chance to watch TV closely with his parents (I call them Maa deuta)..While browsing through the channels we stopped at NDTV..It was saturday evening and the popular show ‘Big Fight’ was just kicked off by Vikram Chandra..I like the show, so just hovering around the channel..The topic he started seems to be of much interest to me “Should Bangladeshis be deported from India?”..And he started introducing faces one by one, the camera took a turn to the second face , it seemed to be a pretty familiar face to me. A middle aged person with long a beard covering almost 50 percent of the his total facial area.. !!..But it was maa who actually recognized pretty fast that it’s none other than our

ex AASU(All assam student’s union) leader Samujjal Bhattacharya..I suddenly felt it was a time for me to stick myself to the TV..and listen..

Vikram introduced the other personalities ND Pancholi as Human Rights Lawyer, Javed Naqvi as Political analyst and al last a very known face Nafisa Ali as Social worker…Forgot to mention the first face, Prafull Goradia, General Secretary of Jansangh.

The whole debate was triggered due to the recent Jaipur serial blasts where the main suspect was a fundamentalist organization from Bangladesh..It was Samujjal Bhattacharya who started the topic in support that Bangladeshis should be deported. He stressed on the point that people of Assam has been shouting loud on this topic since last three decades, but none paid heed to them.. Now when terror striked at Jaipur, then only other part of the India got to know about the severity of the matter…

I had all my heart to his point…I have seen in my life the ups and down Assam’s political scenario since my childhood. The big movements. I remember, in my early school going days, when people around me also considered non Assamese Hindi speaking as outsiders.. I saw Biharis, Marwaris vacating their shops.. It was ULFA with their violent strategy and AASU with their non violent movements!..But all the odds were against those Hindi speaking business minded people. But today when I read some of the articles I realize that actually AASU started their movements against Bangladeshis only..But as a boy, in 1980’s decade, I don’t remember seeing a single Bangladeshi in my small town of upper Assam. I am pretty confident that in those days upper Assam was least affected by migrants from Bangladesh.. But our people were definitely very futuristic and could see the danger at that time itself! And so people had support for AASU and ULFA. AASU kept on demanding central govt to either deport all the Bangladeshi’s from Assam or give them the power to do so! But they never thought doing something by themselves without asking for some power from central govt. And ULFA? They saw large refinement(!) in their union in all these years..From a specific set of principles that got public support to some broader principles in later years which lead to no principles for the general public!.. A piteously losing organization! But whatever was the approach, the main goal of these movements were the same and the end result was purely negative. In statictics it will say –1000% affect. The places where even not a single Bangladeshi stayed in the early days of the movement, those places are filled with Bangladeshis today. I am surprised to see new slum communities around my town whenever I go there every year! Assamese doesn’t know how to live in a slum..They have never struggled for food and house in history.. I have not seen a place in India till now, after traveling most of it’s part, where any plant , may be wild or may be crop growing so easily apart from Assam. You just throw your waste from your kitchen, you will find a papaya plant or a pumpkin plant growing in that place!..It’s amazing and this is why Assamese doesn’t know what is starving. And house?..Everyone has got enough land to have a proper house, may be of only hay/bamboo.. So who is building the slums..The answer is pretty obvious..Bangladeshis!.. They are not only building slums, they are also there in the vegetable markets, in rickshaws, in constructions ..so and so!

Huuh!..I have dragged the main topic 100 miles away from the destination..Let me carry it to the right track now! Samujjal Bhattacharya is definitely the one who has seen much much more than what I have seen in my life. So there is some emotion coupled with him!.. But Javed Naqvi and so called socialist Nafisa Ali seemed to be have more broader vision for the whole world!.. They were undoubtedly the most outspoken, soft spoken debater of the fight. They have seen the whole world better than rest of the people around! Javed knows well about Autobahn racing track(which Vikram explained to others that autobahn is a racing track), but he definitely doesn’t know how adventurous(!) it could be when it comes to driving in flood ridden roads of Assam. He had a real good example to cite, when it was claimed that Bangladeshis are consuming local jobs, under cutting local developments! It was very spontaneous reply from him that we Indians are doing the same in America by snatching their jobs. He had also another name BPO!.. But I just wanted to laugh!! Hey mister? Do you know how many legal activities are done to work in US?. It is not the Indian, but the American companies that want Indians to work at a cheaper cost so that their profit margin increases!.. How can it be compared with Bangladeshi migrants, where we don’t even have the estimate of how many of them are residing in Assam?.. Where as in US every single outsider are counted well!..US also has their own foreign migrant policy for Mexico etc which are very very rigid!.. Learn that Mr Javed! He had another very strong point that it is India itself that is to blame for all the problems from neighboring countries .. India itself has created all these countries and now just turning its back to them!..But what do you expect sir?. We should go and feed them too? He also had a big question why Nepal border is free with India but not Bangladesh?.. Only because Nepal is a hindu country? But I wanted to ask him, do you know the population strength of both the countries? Even the border is free for Nepal how many nepalis has done a terrorism act in India? How many of them are involved in robbery?.. If you don’t know then please don’t put forward such points! He has another very holistic vision. He could imagine SAARC countries as European union, free movement across the countries , common currency etc. I do respect this point. But I also want to come out of my dream world and see the practicality. I could broadly see one thing!!..I am not sure whether such a union will strengthen the economy or not but one thing is for sure that all the terrorists groups across all the countries can merge up to create the largest militant group in the world!,, Not bad , it will get a place in Guinness book!

All very broad and intellectual points from Javed Naqvi! But the he not even came close to Nafisa Ali when it comes to broadness. She had the ultimate soft heart .. She knew the real definition of humanism! .. She wanted to embrace all migrants as brothers and sisters…She could imagine a beautiful world .. She feels every person to be rude who can think of deporting the Bangladeshis!.. She wanted India to help Bangladesh to develop itself..and so! Great thoughts! ..But practically will that possible? Will they ever accept our helping hand? Bangladesh has refused to sell Natural Gas to India recently!.. If you are worried about 16 crore Bangladeshis then you should be more concerned to 40 crore people in your own country who are struggling like Bngladeshis in everyday life. India is not in a position that it will be able to carry such a large population along with it. And if it tries, then Bangladesh will drown India, creating a bigger Bangladesh of much bigger population!!..Bad vision ma’am! I wanted to ask her, does she know how many robberies are happening in Assam everyday due to Bangladeshis?.. Any idea? You are trying to teach us the humanism , but I will be grateful to you if you can go to the Bangladeshi slums to teach them humanism first, as they are trying live in a new country and they should know the custom of it. The humanism which is definitely in every Indians heart! .. Or I wanted to ask her to go to the fundamentalists and teach them humanism first!..It is always easier to convince the less numbers than the more, if it results to the same consequence!

Another big hero of the show was Mr Pancholi!..He is man of evidence! He feels really bad when police simply says that it is Huji, or ISI or LET when any blasts happens without any proper evidence!.. Waah! ..You are a true lawyer! But not everyone, people has heart and brain..Not like lawyers who sometimes has nothing but an ear to listen to the verdict of the judge..and nothing else matters!..So do you think that we say nothing and wait till the verdict comes out of the court? Great idea!..But I think it takes quite a many days(years?) in India to get the verdict!

There were a few comments from Mr Goradia whom I had to agree. He just put an example of upcoming global warming. With this as the sea level will rise, water will slowly swallow Bangladesh and then what will happen to such large population? If we don’t plan it now, we will be in a toss in future. Also he mention once a friend of India, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, prime minister of Pakistan, has himself said that Bangladesh can’t be a stabilized economy until and unless North-east India joins it. Mr Samujjal Bhattachary also stressed on a point Governor of Assam Lt Gen Ajai Singh, has recently sent a report to Delhi that if it continues this way, Assam will soon be part of Bangladesh!..What a horrible information! Why Delhi and Assam has different set of rules defined in the constitution though part of the same country? Why Assam act is not yet implemented in last three decades? For us Assamese people, just a longiwala or topiwala is not a Bangladeshi like other part of India.. We have no religious hatred too!..What we want is to deport all the migrant who has entered India after 1971..Yes, sir, I do agree completely..But will someone listen?..I knew, Smujjal was also emotionally driven that day..But his soul is also rotten by the dirty politics of Assam in all these days..So his points were more of political science than emotional..And that’s why it was impossible to convince good speaker like Javed, Nafisa etc. His frustration was very much visible in his face..It was just like someone not able to convince others why 1+1 is equal to 2 .. In a debate of 5 people in India, only two people were supporting that Bangladeshi’s should be deported from India..It’s a shame that it is still a topic of debate! ..More frustratingly when big faces are against it, how can you think of implementing it?..I felt very sad for Samujjal Bhattacharya that day!!..His frustrating and losing face was disturbing me all the night long!..It’s only us, we people from Assam, can understand how painful it is to see your mother land getting spoilt by strange faces!..We fought against each other, against each native tribes, castes!..But we have never harmed them!..It’s a very good example of hospitality..But now we have been attacked by the same guests!!..Brhamaputra is getting dirty by those slums.Kaziranga is losing trees, lands..Losing rhinos. Poor wagers losing their jobs. Night buses are looted. Robberies are happening at your home. Thieves everywhere..Smaller than smallest things are getting stolen.. Beggars everywhere! The terrorists group with unknown names, but with weapons..Not sure about their destinations..But these are all beginnings..There are many locals who are not at all bothered..But this is of great concern than anything in Assam..It is slowly eating the tree from the root. And the most horrifying part is that even after knowing everything we are not able to do anything..We have tried our best and nothing happened..Now it’s only the time that will tell us the future!

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Hi Nice site you have here, stumbled upon this website accidentally, when i was looking up about Sivasagar online. Wanted to know as to how many cyber cafes are there in Sivasagar. Let me know.

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Prashant.
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I am always very bad in English..Frankly speaking I have never heard about the word blog till I left college 4 years back. And in this four years the popularity of blogging has increased much more than anything in the net…And I always find it so interesting to read blogs written by many of friends. Its becoming a very favorite time pass for both blog writer and reader!..Then I thought why not this feature be added to OnlineSivasagar?..Yes, we are not far behind then any good website!..So here it is!..Just scribble down your thoughts here..Everyone will love to read that put a comment!