Bishnupriya Manipuri Online

Ramlal Sinha GUWAHATI, March 17: Melodious elegies and speeches delivered with fiery passion rent the air in some pockets in Guwahati on sad Sunday last when the Bishnupriya Manipuris of the city recalled their language martyr, Sudeshna.  Sudeshna Sinha, a teenaged girl, fell to the police bullet during a rail-roko agitation at Kalkalighat railway station in Karimganj district in the Barak Valley on March 16, 1996. The community had to agitate for decades to get their demand for the introduction of the Bishnupriya Manipuri language at the primary stage of education fulfilled. At such a function organized by the Gobinda Mandir Committee, in collaboration with Marup, an NGO, at Milan Nagar in the Borbari area in the city, Marup’s vice president and cine artiste Ashutosh Sinha (Rabi) and Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha kept the audience spellbound when they sang elegies after paying tribute to the martyr. The paying of tribute w...

Ramlal Sinha It was not for nothing why a student Prabas Kanti Sinha used bulk of the meagre quantity of paper that his parents could provide their children with at a time when his siblings could ill afford that ‘scarce’ item (paper). With such a message during his brief speech after the release of ‘Elar Jhaka-Part 1’, an audio CD from LL Productions, at Panjabari in Guwahati on March 8 SP Pratap Sinha wanted to bring home that it was his brother’s no holds-barred writing habit that made him what he is today.  Tagged onto the end of the release of the CD was a brainstorming session on ‘The Role of Audio and Video Devices on the Preservation of Culture’. Both the sessions were presided over by the president of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum, DILS Lakshmindra Sinha.  “My dada was in the habit of writing in various genres of literature, films, art and culture right from his school days. Writing paper was a scarce commodity for us, and that made us adopt str...