Hi all my Jharkhandi friends,
Blaming govt for everything is the easiest way out.Finding the real culprit
in ourself is the most difficult.
I have been reading these posts about all adivasis from last few months, it
seems from your messages, adivasis are in deep trouble and neglected a lot.
From you all, whoever resides @ranchi, Karma chowk and adivasi hotel is a big
mess, after 8-9'O clock students who are getting full scholarships, are on
roads extorting money from all vehicles on road for liquor. Is this what you
call empowerment? This is nuisance value, with power comes bigger
responsibilities. I am not justifying anything but I am telling you its time to
work on ground not to talk endlessly.
Nothing can be achieved by granting any caste status, but we need dedicated
people to work for wellbeing of adivasis.
I have observed people who are adivasis staying overseas or leading a gud
life somewhere writing long speeches on adivasis.
According to me, if you have never done something for any adivasi to progress
or wellbeing of adivas....you have got no right to say anything.
And last but not the least, why to divide our state into Adivasi and
Non-adivasi, my family is having a background in Jharkhand, 300 years back too.
Are we not gud enough to be considered Jharkhandis?
All big leaders Sorens, Marandis, Mundas belongs to adivasis, take them to
task....make them work...atleast for adivasis
I joined this forum because i wanted to interact with like minded people, who
can contribute to progress of Jharkhand. Please let us do something more
constructive. All concerned mens and womens about adivasis, form an umbrela
organization and take some concrete actions, instead of writing long mails.
Thanks to this forum , i have met some like minded persons...and we have
decided to establish a KPO sooner or later in Ranchi. That will give employment
to more than 250 jharkhandis.
I have great adivasi frends and we work for jharkhand not for a particular
community.
Thanks & Kind regards
Amit P Gupta
Jharkhand Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*Today, if Adivasis are taking up arms, it is the government that is
responsible for it.
*
If media reports about the involvement of an Adivasi outfit in the December
13 bomb blast of Rajdhani Express is true, it spells bad news for the state
as well as the Adivasis of Assam and other places where Jharkhandi tribes
exist. It will add another undesirable chapter to militancy in this country.
Today, if Adivasis have resorted to taking up arms it is because they have
been betrayed by successive governments of Assam. Ever since the first batch
of adivasis was brought to Assam during the British rule the community has
been an exploited and neglected lot.
One can understand the pre-independence exploitation and neglect by the
colonial masters, but how can one excuse the continual exploitation and
neglect of a community that has contributed so much for the economic
prosperity of Assam, after independence. Today, the adivasis form the lowest
strata of Assamese society.
Ethnic affinity knows no boundaries and that has been amply demonstrated
umpteen number of times in the past. The very recent one being the sharp
reaction of Tamils to the tough handling of Tamil demonstrators in Malaysia
by the local authorities. In a country like India where political boundaries
were drawn arbitrarily rendering people of one ethnicity divided between
several states, the affinity is even stronger. Therefore, this Adivasi
miltant outfit's arrival, which was much publicized by the local media, can
potentially distort peace in all the states where Adivasis exist.
Already, this nation has bled enough. Do we need another militant outfit to
inflict wounds at this great country of ancient people and cultures?
It is imperative for the governments in Assam and the Centre to recognize
the danger and concede the justified demand of Adivasis.
While it is true that the term Adivasi encapsulates within itself a
conglomeration of Jharkhandi tribes, the fact is that the Adivasi community
of Jharkhandi descent is essentially one ethnic block and shares a common
dialect 'Sadri' though there may be minor variations in their culture. It
should also be noted that though the state of Jharkhand was created
recently, the Jharkhand movement itself dates back to the pre-independence
era.
Some of them who are opposing the grant of ST status for Adivasis on the
premise that it "would adversely affect the status of the state's indigenous
people and would contribute towards further deterioration of their
socio-political and economic condition", seem to go by the premise that the
"well being of a community is only possible by domination of another". Such
flawed logic is untenable. Also, perhaps, the indiginity clause itself needs
some reconsideration.
On the one hand these opponents talk about integration of the Adivasis with
the Assamese society while on the other they want to deny them their basic
citizenship rights. Ironically, they refer to the Adivasis, quite
ignominiously, as Tea Tribes but they do not want the government to grant
them Scheduled Tribe status.
If the governments decide not to grant ST status with full citizenship
rights to the Adivasis of Assam, it would be akin to propagating apartheid
rule, something that has almost vanished from the face of this earth, but is
so reminiscent of the obnoxious colonial past. It would be an anachronism in
an age when migrant people of Indian origin have grown to the level of heads
of state in several countries.
Manoj Tirkey
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*My sincere apologies if I have hurt anybody's sentiments unintentionally.
Please pass it on to all Jharkhandi groups and other adivasi friends. *
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