Skip to main content

The changing image of NBMM

By Rebati Mohan Sinha





The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) has come a long way since its inception. It has been constantly working towards the fulfillment of its motto and objectives with which it was founded. The Mahasabha holds long extensive sessions to channelize its work process. 

As a senior member of the Mahasabha, I attended few sessions and observed significant changes, which have taken place over the last five years. The first session I attended was held at village Tinokhal in Patherkandi under Karimganj district in Assam in 2005. The chief objective of the meeting was to discuss the issues related to the collection and expenditure of the revenue. The agenda included various programs (1) to discuss the activities carried out by the Mahasabha during the previous three years; (2) to evaluate the income and the expenditure of the Mahasabha during the period of 2002-2005, (3) to consider the audited memorandum, along with the audited rectification (4) to appoint internal and external auditors (5) to notify matters specially requiring decision, concurrence and sanction of the Adhibeshan and to pass appropriate resolutions there on (5) and to form a new Central Committee for next three years.

The meeting was however overshadowed by the miscellaneous /cultural program. There was hardly any time left to discuss the important issues. There was no separate enclosure for the delegates in the meeting. As a result their voices were not heard properly. The audience took the centre stage and started shouting, which created chaotic scenario. Consequently, discussions were abruptly stopped. Even the formation of committee was postponed for the day. The next day, a prepared list was announced; but the delegates were not content by the way it was presented. 



Nevertheless, another session I attended was recently concluded in village Kailasahar, North Tripura in February 2009. It was well organized and systematic. Before the commencement of 43rd NBMM session, we took the stock of corrective measures on those defective resolutions, which were being taken in 2005 session. In concluded Adhibeshan, the State NBMM committee of Tripura took care of all the management. It arranged a separate venue for the Bishay Nirbachani Sabha comprising delegates of the Mahasabha where audience were not allowed. The names of the candidates were announced and the election took place for the first time in the history of Mahasabha. A separate stage was erected at a venue, far away from the venue of Bishay Nirbachani Sabha, for the Prakashya Sabha, held amidst ten thousand people. There was proper interaction between the delegates and the public. Moreover, the woman wing of Mahasabha was given the rightful place on the dais to share with ongoing session. This is the first time in the history of Mahasabha, the women took part in a man dominated forum. A cultural program was also organized which was participated by national as well as international artists.

As being one of the delegates of the Mahasabha, some questions were thrown at me by the audience. I would like to advice our community people on the basis of the answers I gave to those questions.



NBMM is established for the welfare of our community in particular and for the whole society in broad. It is the responsibility of every Bishnupriya Manipuri to carry out the duties for the upliftment of the community. To develop our language, we should adopt it more and more in our daily use. It is crucial for a regional writer to read other languages and adopt them equally so that he/she could translate the regional literature into other languages in order to expand its accessibility and widen its reach to large number of readers. Making of NBMM is a continuous process which needs unity and solidarity among our people.


Please subscribe to the blog: receive email. Get Free alert on your mobile! Click here.

Subscribe:

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

We all love comments. It is moderated

Popular posts from this blog

Flinders University appoints Dr Romi Sinha as Associate Lecturer

Dr. Romi Sinha, appointed Associate Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia Adding one more story of Indian diaspora by individuals who by dint of their single-minded dedication and hard work achieve success, Dr Romi Sinha, an alumna of Silchar Medical College, Assam, is one among them. Daughter of Rebati Mohan Sinha, she has been awarded the post of Associate Lecturer in the School of Medicine at Flinders University, Australia.  Since its inception in 1966, the Australian university has built a strong reputation for quality and innovation in its courses and in its teaching. It is the first university in the world to have a bachelor course in nanotechnology, and the first in Australia to offer a graduate entry medical course. Throughout its history, Flinders University has had a focus and an emphasis on research .  Her achievement is an inspiration for students and parents to lay emphasis on quality education. 
3 comments
Read more

A life devoted to poetry

Courtesy: The Sentinel By Champalal Sinha In the world of present Bishnupriya Manipuri literature, the man who first makes his imprint on our minds and reflects his image in our eyes, and the name that comes first while discussing the literature of the community is poet Brojendra Kumar Sinha. His fault-finders will, however, have a different view. His is a life totally devoted to poetry, and this is his first identity. It’s poet Brojendra Kumar Sinha who first introduced structural aspect, subject matter, mode of expression, appeal, soul (core), rhetoric and the like in a conscious way in Bishnupriya Manipuri literature in order to put it on a par with developed literatures in the world. And he has been successful in his relentless efforts towards that end. His poems have been translated and published in English, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Kokborok, Manipuri, Urdu and other languages, and received with applause. Talking straight, he is the architect of modern Bishnupriya Manipuri poe...
4 comments
Read more

The 'Star' Krishankant Sinha of Space City Sigma

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi It is a myth that the all-knowing Internet knows everything. One such myth relates to old television stuff aired on Doordarshan before 1990. Search in Google “Space City Sigma”, the search engine would throw up reminiscent results from the people who still long for those days. Those days were really golden days. Krishankant Sinha in the role of Captain Tara in Space City Singma For those who have watched Doordarshan some 15 to 20 years back, am sure they will have nostalgic memories of it. The days when possessing a now ubiquitous looking television set was a luxury. It was a neighbour’s envy product. It was a visual product to showoff, to flaunt that we have a television set . Those were the days when black and white, locked television was rarely found in homes. The days became immortal for teleserials like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Swami’s Malgudi Days (Ta-Na-Na-Na…), Ek-Do-Teen-Char (Title song: Ek do teen char, chaaro mil ke saath chale to ...
26 comments
Read more