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News The combined oath taking ceremony of the newly elected executive members of the Mahasabha, and its Sahitya and Sanskriti Parishad, took place in the holy name of Radha Madhavjiu on May 24, 2009 at the Community Hall, Srila Bhubeneswar Sadhutakur Sevashram, Tarapur, Silchar, Assam. The ceremony was performed by Sri Prangopal Mukherjee, the Gaddishwar of Ghaghrapar. He administered the oath of allegiance to Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha, the elected President of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM). The President in turn administered the oath of confidence to all other executive committee members and the office-bearers of Sahitya and Sanskriti Parishad. Central Committee Mahasabha President: Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha (Silchar) Working Presidents: Chandrakanta Sinha (Silchar) Sahitya, Sanskriti, Andolan Parishad, Legal affairs Sundar Mukherjee (Tripura), Development Council & Finance & Organization Rebati Mohan Sinha (Mumba...

News Bishnupriya Manipuri people residing all over India can now contribute to the Mahasabha Fund. The decision to extend the geographical reach of the fund by Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) was taken in a meeting held in Silchar, Assam, on May 25, 2009. Earlier contribution to Mahasabha Fund was limited to Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and other north-eastern states where Bishnupriya Manipuri are residing. With the passing of the resolution it would facilitate Bishnupriya Manipuri people living in other States of India to contribute to the Fund of the decade-old socio-cultural body. A 25-member Committee under the Presidentship of Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha (Silchar) has been formed to chalk out the procedures and means to strengthen the Fund. Most members of this committee had stressed the enrolment drive of Annual/ Life membership should be carried out with renewed vigor. The Annual and Life membership fees were fixed at Rs.10 and Rs.1000/- respectively. All members present ...

News The Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers have called off their indefinite hunger strike on June 6, 2009. The decision to withdraw the protest has come after the Assam Government gave nod to meet with them on June 18, 2009 in Dispur, Assam. The stay on the protest is temporary and it will be resumed if the Assam Government doesn’t meet the longstanding demands of the 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers who sat on strike on June 5, 2009 in Silchar, Assam, said Anil Rajkumar, President, Bishnupriya Manipuri Student Union. Hunger strike which ran for two days in the precincts of the DC Office, Silchar, Assam, two persons got critically serious and they had to be given immediate medical assistance. The names of the teachers are Subodh Sinha from Singhari and Namita Rajkumari. Subodh Sinha teaches in the Merwah LP School, Chencoorie, and Namita Rajkumari in the Tikarbasti LP School, Silchar. The Assam Government should follow its own decision on releasing the remuneration of the 149 Bis...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi The 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers were slogging in the decrepit Government schools for complete nine years with one wish that one day their job will be permanent and they will be receiving remuneration to their services. What we will call – is it not a mockery in broad day-light with the lives of 149 teachers and their dependents? The financial and psychological toll that these teachers had to undergo year after year is beyond one guess and imagination. The child who was in class I in 2001 is now a teenager and is getting ready for the matriculation examination; is it not an irony that the same teacher who had taught this child, his life didn’t move an inch. His life has been brought to a screeching grinding halt. It not only put a pause to the professional and personal advancement of the person, but it ceases the lives of many people: his wife, children and his old parents. The lives of all the dependents were put on stake. A simple arithmetic calc...

News Over 100 Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers sat on a hunger strike today morning braving rain at the Deputy Commissioner Office, Silchar, said President of Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association, Prabir Rajkumar when he was contacted. At 4 pm, representatives from Bishnupriya Manipuri Students Association, Bishnupriya Manipuri Gana Sangram Parishad and Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association held meeting with Gautam Ganguli, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar at his office. In the meeting, Gautam Ganguli urged the representatives to called off their strike in keeping in view that the budget is going to be tabled soon in the State Assembly. But the offer was rejected, said Prabir Rajkumar. Unless and until officially any communication is not sent, the hunger strike of the Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers will not be stopped and it will be carried out as usual, said the President of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association. The Bishnupriy Manipuri teachers from...

News Water has gone above the roof for the 149- strong Bishnupriya Manipuri teachers appointed in the LP schools of Assam. They are sitting on an indefinite hunger strike to draw attention of the state government to their plight on June 5, 2009 in front of the Silchar DC Office. In a memorandum submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, Silchar, the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language Teachers Association, intimated that due to failure of the government to regularize their services they are taking this course of action. The Teacher’s Association has submitted similar memorandums to the Deputy Commissioners of Karimganj and Hailakandi districts. In 2001, altogether 149 Bishnupriya Manipuri Language teachers were appointed in LP schools in three districts (Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj) of Barak Valley. But they have not been receiving any remuneration as their services were not regularized. The Bishnupriya Manipuri Gana Sangram Parishad and Bishnupriya Manipuri Students Association had extende...

A fter the 43rd conference held at Tripura, the newly-elected Executive Members of Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha Central Committee are meeting on 24 May, 2009 at Srila Bhubeneshwar Sadhuthakur Sevasram community Hall, Silchar. The meet will be discussing on the resolutions, adopted in the 43rd conference held in Tripura, and on its implementation. The meeting convened by NBMM will be attended by two of its own body - Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parisad and Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sanskriti Parisad. The meeting will be marked with the oath-taking of the newly-elected Executive Members. Discussions on fund and on the Constitution will also take place, according to a communiqué released by the Office of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha. In the 43rd conclave, NBMM raised the demand for introducing the Bishnupriya Manipuri language in the primary stage of education, appointment of Bishnupriya Manipuri language teachers and SI of schools, and establishment of De...

Lok Sabha Election 2009 Special - Part I Total number of candidates: 16 Candidates of recognized National and State Political Parties: 4 (1) Name of Candidate: Kabindra Purkayastha Party affiliation: Bharatia Janata Party (2) Name of Candidate: Dipak Bhattacharjee Party affiliation: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (3) Name of Candidate: Badruddin Ajmal Party affiliation: Assam United Democratic Front (4) Name of Candidate: Sontosh Mohan Dev Party affiliation: Indian National Congress Independent Candidates: Kantimoy Deb Chondan Rabidas Jayanta Mallick Jay Sundar Das Nagendra Chandra Das Nabadwip Das Pijush Kanti Das Manish Bhattacharjee Yogendra Kumar Singh Subir Deb Sumit Roy Nazrul Haque Mazarbhuiyan Next  List of contesting candidates from Karimganj (SC) constituency Please subscribe to the blog: receive email. Get Free alert on your mobile! Click here . Subscribe: The Bishnupriya Manipuri E - World English Grammar

If Kartik Sena Sinha is not media savvy and doesn’t have any political say of his own in the Assam politics, so what? He is the 3rd richest Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Assam. Being a rich MLA in the Assam Assembly at least hogs media light on him. Though occasionally! And this what that came out in the India’s prestigious news magazine India Today in its February 23 cover issue (page 28) story “Assembly of the Rich”.  Ahead of him in the crorepati bracket comes – Badruddin Ajmal of AUDF (South Salmara constituency), his net worth is Rs. 14.2 crore; second, Bithika Dev (Silchar constituency) with Rs 6.2 crore. Kartik Sena Sinha net asset is Rs. 4.5 crore. A Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate from Patherkandi constituency, Kartik Sena Sinha defeated K. M. Baharul Islam (AUDF) by a margin of 2,580 votes in the Assam Assembly election held in 2006. Among 8-candidates contesting from the LA-2 Patherkandi Assembly Constituency, he got the highest votes (37220) totaling 36.9...

Bishnupriya Manipuri girls are coming forward and are proving their mettle. In a recently held mega final competition Golden Voice of Barak programme it was very much visible. Bithi Sinha begged the first position in the closely contested competition. In the same platform, the third position was shared by Manjula Sinha (of Patherkandi, Assam) and Chandrani Sharma.  The mega finale competition was inaugurated by President Mrs Sushmita Dev; Saptaparna Chakroborty of Sa-Re-Ga-Ma fame and well known singer Sivaji Chatterjee were in judges’ chair.  With the success of musical shows on the Indian television, talent hunt shows are widely used to give a platform to singers to showcase their talent. The trend is catching and is being accepted by upcoming singers to bring out their singing talent. Sa-Re-Ga-Ma is one successful musical show running in Zee TV which has produced singers of repute like Shreya Ghosal and Kunal Ghanjawala. Other similar musical programmes on the same format are runnin...

10th General Conference of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Assam State committee will be held at Dullavchara (Hingala), District Karimganj, Asssam on 10th & 11th January 2009. This decision was taken in the extended executive meeting of the Assam State Committee Mahasabha held at Higher Secondary School Dullavchara on 14th December where a reception committee was formed with the following members. President: Subash Sinha. Secretary: Sri Chandra Kanti Sinha.and others members. Uday sinha Secretary General NBMM Please subscribe to the blog: receive email. Get Free alert on your mobile! Click here .

Office of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha. H.Q- Silchar-5. Notice Dear Members, As per decision of the last meeting of the Central Executive meeting of the Mahasabha held Silchar. The Central General Assembly of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha will be held on 22nd & 23rd November 2008 at Khanu Srimandop Jaffirbond, Hailakandi District of Assam. So all the Executive Members of the Mahasabha, Sahitya Parishad, Sanskriti Parishad and Sri Sri Radhamadhav Sevapuja Committee are cordially requested to attend the same to discussion in the following agenda. Programme 22nd November 2008, Saturday, at 2 P. M. 1. Offering tribute to the Sahid Vedi. 2. Confirmation of last proceeding of the Executive meeting of the Mahasabha . 3. Reporting of the activities of the Mahasabha, and departmental committees . 4. Selection of Venue, date of holding of ensuing 43rd General Adhivasion Mahasabha. 23rd November 2008, Sunday, from 9 A.M. 1. To discuss about the fulfillment of outs...

By BN Sinha, Kolkata Among the many festivals we observe, there is always a controversy or difference of opinion which is the major festival observed by us or our community, may be Shree Krishna Janmastami , Raas Utsav or Rath Yatra , it is rather very easy to confess that the most celebrated festival in Bishnupriya Manipuri community is Durga Puja. Reason may be any or many; the fact is that Durga puja always witness us to visit our native place, as often it becomes the official visit to home for the people who are out of their native places. While acknowledging every individuals wish list I must add another that holds good every year when most of us declare " Ebosor te pujat gore jitouga" ( I will go home puja this year). As I belong to the city Silchar, Assam, I have always witnessed Durga puja as the most celebrated among all the Hindu festivals. Puja always meant homecoming. In the childhood days we used to anxiously wait for the autumn to arrive that we may receive the ...

By Rebati Mohan Sinha, Mumbai Since my hometown being Silchar, the recent flood situation is creating restlessness in me. It makes me to do phone calls almost every day to know about any development in the situation. I have been reported quite a number of times by Dr. Debendra Kumar Sinha from Green View Nursing Home, Silchar, about the flood situation around Silchar town. According to him the mostly affected Bishnupriya Manipuri villages are Bhagatpur, Singari, Chincoorie, Dudpatil, Masughat and many more. We had discussed about the relief work to be undertaken by Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha. Here, I would like to mention that the relief measures, taken up either by state/central Govt or NGOs is at the moment the focal point of debate, but not a permanent solution (relief). How long a person could survive on relief every year? Some of you may agree with me that about decades ago the floods were very much under control, than, why is the recurrence now? Here, I would say not o...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi You type in the Google browser – Silchar flood – you will find nothing substantial information. You can say there is nothing, absolutely nothing where you can fix your eyeballs. Now the question is, why Google’s best search engine in the world, is failing to bring relevant links on the keyword ‘silchar flood’? The answer is: Because nobody has felt it to write. The loss of property worth of crores and suffering of localites (Bishnupriya Manipuri, Bengalis, Assamese, Meitai Manipuri etc.) means nothing. It is as simple as it is seen on the search page. A Google Earth view of the Silchar town reveals about its topography. It is surrounded by the Barak River criss-crossing the town. Angriness of the Rain God for few days brings the town not only cut-off from the rest of the country but mayhem on the neighboring villages. Villages go down the water; people are shifted to schools and makeshift camps, army is given order to carry out relief measures and blah-...

By Rebati Mohan Sinha, Mumbai The Silchar town is still synonymous to our native places because whenever some one ask me, where am I from? I say, form Silchar. Here in Mumbai, we are the people of erstwhile Cachar district (Hailakandi &Karimganj included), running an NGO, named “Sreehatta Sammilani”. I would come up later, with a write up on this Sanstha. We, most of us are from Silchar and when ever there is a great Bengali function in the city, we are always remembered and even Assamese never forget to call us in Assam Bhavan. The name Silchar is quite famous among the Bengalees living in Mumbai, immaterial whether they are from east or west Bengal. I was born and brought up in Baromuni; but my paternal village is Bhubaneshwar Nagar, located east of village Mohanpur. My present village, South Bekirpar (Panibhora) in Baromuni is east of Mr.Rajkumar Rishi`s maternal village, Katakhal. During my boyhood, I never went to Silchar, because there was no motorable road up to Kabuganj fro...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi Can someone heal Silchar, Assam? Indeed, a tortuous question? Anytime the name of Silchar pops up in my mind, my whole body starts aching with pain. It is not the distance that causes it. It is something in the air that I can't breathe. I find my village - Dad's village Mohanpur and Mama's village Baromoni- much better than the Silchar town. I get peace there. You can say I am bit prejudice about the town. May be I can't converse in Slyheti Bengali. This may be the one reason. I introspect why I am allergic to the town. As soon as I get there my whole body swings in lightning speed to get in as soon as possible to my village. I don't want, mere the urge, to amble around the town. It doesn’t arise in my conscious. I am always in the escapist mood. I have asked many - how do they find living in Silchar, Assam. I haven't found to my memory, someone nodding in the favour of it. I analysed what would be the reasons that had made me No...

By Rebati Mohan Sinha, Mumbai It was year 1972, I and my family, wife and year-old daughter traveling from Vishakhapatnam to Silchar via Calcutta. In those days, Air line passengers were to report to city office first, then to Dum Dum Airport by airline’s own bus. On that fateful day, I reached Howrah Railway Station and took a taxi to air office at Rasbehari Avenue. As the taxi driver about to park the vehicle near the air office, a porter came running and started helping us to take out the luggage from the taxi and at the mean time I was paying the fare to the driver. And on reaching the counter, saw a black attaché was missing, I immediately turn around and saw the taxi was taking a U turn. I started running after the taxi and some how reached nearer and tapping on, to stop but it didn’t. It was dusk and streets were becoming dark and the streets light were started burning. I kept on running after it; but how long a human being ran against a machine? I had to give up and headed towa...

By Rebati Mohan Sinha, Mumbai Adding a pinch of salt and spice to Mrs. Ranita’s article ‘ Aarati in Emar Thar ’ to enhance the existing taste of reading. Once I read in a Bishnupriya Manipuri monthly, that a group of elderly people objected aarati performers, performing Aarati in Emar thar at Sadhu Thakur`s Ashram at Tarapur, Silchar . They even challenged their propriety by saying as to who has allowed them to perform in the malthep . There was about to be a commotion between them, and the elderly group ultimately left in a huff. But this time Ranita has found so much of changes there, which is really a positive sign. Mr. Jogendra Kumar Sinha, Retd. High School Head Master and President, Sanskriti Parishad, NBMM, has published a book (Emar tharor) of Aarati at Silchar. His work has been appreciated by all. Mrs. Sandhya Mukherjee and her party might be using the copy of the same book for their aarati. I am also having a copy of that book which, the writer himself had sent to me year...

By Ranita Sinha, Kolkata The Hindu culture is a very rich and vast culture. All the year round they have one or the other festival to celebrate. They offer Pujas to different Gods and Goddesses . It is rightly said that a Hindu celebrates thirteen festivals in twelve months. But each and every community has its own unique way to perform the festivals. The Bishnupriya Manipuri community, also being a Hindu community, performs different pujas. The rituals followed by them are very elaborate. One unique feature of the community is the chanting of Aratis while performing puja. Aratis are performed mainly in the morning, noon and afternoon. The morning aarati is called Mongolarti, noon its called Bhogarati and evening it is called Sendarati . The aartis are mainly sung in Brajabali language, similar to Bengali. During my last visit to my in-law's village, New Bhakatpur, Silchar to attend Basanti Puja , pledged by my mother-in-law, I witnessed a very unusual thing there. The Monga...