Hi all. This is in response to Dilip Deka's mail. Well, my only intention while saying that we were originally from Upper Assam was to give a geographical connotation. I don't think one would (or should) suffer a "cultural shock" while moving from one part to another of one's own state (of course, many among we Assamese have this expertise of having a low view of other Assamese people from places where we ourselves do not come from). And since we don't belong to a matriarchal society, when I say we are originally from Upper Assam, it means I am talking about my father's family. My maternal grandfather, the late Suresh Chandra Goswami (who had made the ninth Assamese feature film "Runumi", written a number of novels and was an early exponent of Sattriya Nrittya along with Jibeshwar Goswami in Shillong's Prachin Kamrupi Nritya Sangha), hailed from Nohira Satra near Palasbari, so that way you can say, if you insist, we come from neither Upper nor Lower Assam, but from whol!
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Assam, as we all do, after all! Coming to your other points, I was too young to know of the "compelling" reason behind my family moving to Guwahati, but I guess it was because my father had a job (in the judicial service) which was mostly in Guwahati, combined with our education. And when we had moved to Guwahati, it was definitely not that crowded - in fact, at that time, the land opposite our home on R G Baruah Road (Zoo Road) still had a paddy field! Migration is something which is the nature of human beings. If you are saying one should not migrate, then maybe we would have been still in a place among Teok/Borhat/Dibrugarh (all the places where our forefathers settled and moved on) where we still have a lot of relatives, or maybe still in Kannauj/Ujjain/Nabadweep from where Brahmins in Assam had been brought in mainly by the Ahom kings. And I would not have also moved to Delhi, or you to Houston. Of course, I agree with your assessment that people from all over Assam ha!
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wish to buy a plot of land in Guwahati, despite its deteriorating civic conditions. I personally would anyday love to stay in a beautiful place like Tezpur or Haflong. - Utpal
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