Time for Delhi Assamese or NE people to stand as they do live in the 
capital.WAsh up of bad image need be made from Delhi itself.It is basically 
Delhi and Kolkata to spoil the image of Assam and NE.I wish Nona Walia visit 
Assam properly and make a good documentary and know the best region of the 
country in  life.Else write us as man eaters of the North East?
   
  Dr.Bikash Kumar Das
  Bangalore
  

Uddipana Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  I am intrigued by the fact that the nurse from the Northeast was singled
out. If the kidney racket case had to be brought up here, I would have
thought a reference to (non) professional doctors should have logically led
to a mention of the "doctors" (none of them Northeasterners) implicated in
the case, and not a nurse. Besides - or because of - having a skewed idea of
the Northeast, the correspondent seems to have overlooked this not-so-minor
distinction between the professions.

In another case, a recent news item in expressindia.com (
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Assam-businessman-murdered-in-S-Delhi-cops-on-motivehunt/270906/)
on the murder of Pranab Saikia, an Assamese businessman in Delhi,
misreported the name of the murdered man as Pranav Sekiya. What is more
appaling than the journalistic standard of the reporter who did not even
bother to verify the names of the people he was reporting about, is the
rampant ignorance in "national" or "mainstream" media regarding the people
and places of the Northeast. And this ignorance is commensurate only with
the indifference.

Slogans of "national integration" should not be shouted when such attitudes
are at play.


       
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