[asom] Kamrupi concern over Ahom innovation
My humble input: I am a Kamrupi by ancestry, though I am surrounded by non-Kamrupi as relatives. If the Kamrupi do not want to and know how to maintain their Kamrupi character, nothing else will help. More and more Kamrupi in Guwahati are discarding Kamrupi language in favor of other languages including Hindi and English. The real solution is in finding out why they are indulging in this practice, in stead of blaming the immigrants to Guwahati. I'll be surprised if Kamrupi is fading in Nalbari, Soygaon, Barpeta and Hazo. Please tell me if I am wrong. I know The late Prafulla Barua wrote a book in Kamrupi language. To enhance my knowledge, did any one else write in Kamrupi? Dilip Deka From: Suman Mahanta suman_maha...@yahoo.com To: assamonline@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:14:46 AM Subject: [asom] Kamrupi concern over Ahom innovation I agree to some extent with Manoj: It is wise to safegaurd our own culture and language. This doesn't mean you disrespect other's culture and language to safe guard your own. There can't be any excuse to that. In the process you achieve nothing. One can be highly talented and knowledgeable, I am sure most of the members in this group are highly brilliant and talented in their own field of work. But knowledge without wisdom is meaningless. There are far more burning issues of Assam than wasting time on Kamrupi and non Kamrupi mails. I am sure members of these group can provide more constructive ideas to these issues rather than allowing only a few selective member's mail to be part of this group. Get views of all section of the crowd and not restrict to only pro kamrupi mails. One individual can't hijack the whole group with his own thoughts and disallow others views to be aired in the group. I hope better sense prevails and we shall see a united group fighting against common problems rather than wasting time on trivial issues. Suman From: Manoj Das dasm...@gmail.com To: assamonline@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:05:52 Subject: [asom] Kamrupi concern over Ahom innovation Hi all! I have been following this discussion.. It is true that Kamrupi language (kothito) is being on the brink of extinction due to the invasion of typical upper Assamish written version (likhito). Rabin is trying to express is this fact in a crude manner. His language is uncouth and aggressive, which stinks of contempt. He is after all not a very bad person, only the presentation is not that savvy. Rabin did yeoman's job indeveloping Assamese fonts, one which I used for creating the main namemast of Srimanta Sankaradeva Bhawan at New Delhi. Devil must also get its due. As Ankur said, we are facing now very serious problems from terrorism and demographic invasion. Being inactive and passive, we have become part of the problem, not of the solution. Lets unite our energies to fight stark realities. Other things will come side by side. -mkd On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:47 AM, ankur baruah ankur...@gmail. com wrote: Hi all, I thought we all r assamese ..where kamrupi n ahom came from??? I knw its better to know our hostory, but also we hv to look into aur future as well..The most important thought is right now...how to tackle terrorism... more specifically how to stop illegal migrants from neighbouring country into our nation n state... Just remmember its becoz of Mr. Lachit tht we r saved from Moghul invasion...He fought for assam, moreover his most fight were in place from where kamrupi belongs. n kamrupis helped him in tooth n nail...thanks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/4679 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:assamonline-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:assamonline-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: assamonline-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[asom] Baby Moshe an Assamese
2nd person who helped Baby Moshe escape: Zakir Hussain from Assam Zakir Hussain, from Badarpur, Assam, who worked for the Jewish couple(killed in Nariman House, Mumbai), cooking orthodox kosher food for dozens of Jews each week, is the second person who save baby Moshe from escaping from the Nariman House. While the story of Sandra Samuels, the Holtzbergs nanny who was in the building and managed to escape with their two-year-old son Moshe, has made international headlines, the ordeal of Zakir Hussain, who shared her 13-hour ordeal standing between two refrigerators while intermittent firing continued, is little known. Zakir is in hiding on the advice of investigators. Breaking his silence in a telephone interview to reporters today, he said: We never believed anybody could harm our saheb. I kept thinking that if those people wanted money, saheb would give it to them and ensure the safety of the guests, madam and Moshe. Zakir, 23, belongs to Banga, a small village in Badarpur, Assam, and came to Mumbai like lakhs of others, looking for a job and a better life. He started off as a helper in a grocery store until the opportunity to work for the Rabbi and his wife came up. So he learnt to cook kosher meals and became Jackie for the hundreds of Jews who stopped by at Chabad House. Kosher food is food prepared as prescribed by Jewish dietary laws. It covers the kinds of meat that can be consumed, the method in which animals have to be butchered and cooked, and ingredients that can be used, among others. That Wednesday night, having served a kosher dinner of chicken, bread, mixed vegetables and spaghetti, Zakir and Sandra were resting on the ground floor. At 9.45 pm., they were just about to go up to the first-floor kitchen to stow leftovers in the fridge when they saw one terrorist firing. We didnt see the face, just the big gun. We realized there was something wrong. We just entered the first floor and banged the door shut. We rushed to the balcony and started shouting for help. The firing continued and we ran towards the store-room, he says. A moment after Zakir and Sandra entered the store-room and shut the door, a grenade shattered the door of the first floor. They thought we died in that explosion, but we hid between two steel fridges, praying. Death was literally standing on the other side of the door, he recalls. They stood there for 13 hours, hearts pounding. In between, Sandra telephoned the watchman, who had stepped out for dinner, and asked him to inform the police. The firing continued through the night and into the morning, until there was a lull. We came out of the store-room at 11 am and saw the destruction, slowly making our way through the broken glass and pieces of concrete. We were near the stairs when we heard Moshes cries. Sandra and I then went up to the second floor. While she went in and picked up the baby from the room, I stood near the stairs, he said. Baby in hand, the two fled the building, never looking back. Zakir, who identified the bodies of the hostages after the siege ended, is still trying to get over the nightmare. EOM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:assamonline-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:assamonline-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: assamonline-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[asom] Baby Moshe an Assamese
and we are to get a warm and fuzzy feeling because of this To: assamonline@yahoogroups.com From: mrin...@rediffmail.com Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:56:42 + Subject: [asom] Baby Moshe an Assamese 2nd person who helped Baby Moshe escape: Zakir Hussain from Assam Zakir Hussain, from Badarpur, Assam, who worked for the Jewish couple(killed in Nariman House, Mumbai), cooking orthodox kosher food for dozens of Jews each week, is the second person who save baby Moshe from escaping from the Nariman House. While the story of Sandra Samuels, the Holtzbergs’ nanny who was in the building and managed to escape with their two-year-old son Moshe, has made international headlines, the ordeal of Zakir Hussain, who shared her 13-hour ordeal standing between two refrigerators while intermittent firing continued, is little known. Zakir is in hiding on the advice of investigators. Breaking his silence in a telephone interview to reporters today, he said: “We never believed anybody could harm our saheb. I kept thinking that if those people wanted money, saheb would give it to them and ensure the safety of the guests, madam and Moshe.” Zakir, 23, belongs to Banga, a small village in Badarpur, Assam, and came to Mumbai like lakhs of others, looking for a job and a better life. He started off as a helper in a grocery store until the opportunity to work for the Rabbi and his wife came up. So he learnt to cook kosher meals and became ‘Jackie’ for the hundreds of Jews who stopped by at Chabad House. Kosher food is food prepared as prescribed by Jewish dietary laws. It covers the kinds of meat that can be consumed, the method in which animals have to be butchered and cooked, and ingredients that can be used, among others. That Wednesday night, having served a kosher dinner of chicken, bread, mixed vegetables and spaghetti, Zakir and Sandra were resting on the ground floor. At 9.45 pm., they were just about to go up to the first-floor kitchen to stow leftovers in the fridge when they saw one terrorist firing. “We didn’t see the face, just the big gun. We realized there was something wrong. We just entered the first floor and banged the door shut. We rushed to the balcony and started shouting for help. The firing continued and we ran towards the store-room,” he says. A moment after Zakir and Sandra entered the store-room and shut the door, a grenade shattered the door of the first floor. “They thought we died in that explosion, but we hid between two steel fridges, praying. Death was literally standing on the other side of the door,” he recalls. They stood there for 13 hours, hearts pounding. In between, Sandra telephoned the watchman, who had stepped out for dinner, and asked him to inform the police. The firing continued through the night and into the morning, until there was a lull. “We came out of the store-room at 11 am and saw the destruction, slowly making our way through the broken glass and pieces of concrete. We were near the stairs when we heard Moshe’s cries. Sandra and I then went up to the second floor. While she went in and picked up the baby from the room, I stood near the stairs,” he said. Baby in hand, the two fled the building, never looking back. Zakir, who identified the bodies of the hostages after the siege ended, is still trying to get over the nightmare. EOM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:assamonline-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:assamonline-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: assamonline-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
