The North-Eastern part of India consisting mainly of the seven sisters is a much neglected or stereotyped part of India, along with any other state. The general attitude among the public is that of ignorance or complacence. The recent racist attacks in Bengaluru are befitting examples. The problems faced by the North Eastern states are numerous because of the ethnic diversity. This article elaborates on the Bodo conflict in Assam.Violence is not something new to Assam. Assam has been marked by severe violence for decades. The inspiration for the Bodo movement came from the Assam movement. The nature, protest styles and ideology of the Bodoland movement have similarities with that of the Assam movement.The Bodos are the most significant part of the vast Bodo-Kachari group of Mongoloid origin living in the State of Assam. The Bodos constitute a significant proportion in the districts of Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Goalpara, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup, Darrang and Sonitpur.

The Bodo movement resulted because of the uneven and distorted process of development that took place in Assam, during the colonial and post-colonial phases which failed to meet the popular expectations of the Asamiya nationality as well as the rising expectations of the smaller nationalities, including the Bodos.From the following decades of the 1980s, Bodo movement had become known for the perpetration of horrific violence. A pause to this conflict came with the memorandum of settlement between the Assam Government and The Bodo Liberation Tigers which was signed on 10^th February 2003. The MOS resulted in the formation of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD). However, the BTAD structure and functioning was undemocrative and unrepresentative. The BTAD includes the districts of Kokrajhar, Baska, Udalguri and Chirang. The BTAD is governed by a council comprising of 46 members, out of which 30 will be reserved for the STs, five for non-tribal communities, five open for all communities and six to be nominated by the governor of Assam. But the flaw in the system is that BTAD consists of only 25% of Bodos whereas the non-Bodo population make up for the rest 75%.

The question one can raise is, who are the real victims of the Bodo violence? The probable answer would be the Muslims and the other tribal communities.In the attack that took place on 5 August 2016 in the Kokrajhar district of Assam, a Bodo dominated area, which killed 16 people and left 20 injured, the Bodo militants wore kurtas and covered their faces to make themselves appear as Jihadis. The plot was foiled when one of the militants was killed by the security forces and identified as the leader of a Bodo militant group. The genocidal features of the Bodo violence have larger implications than imagined. In the midst of the turmoil of border fences, census numbers, and category of D-voters are the Bengali speaking Muslim community. Although this clash had previously been based on ethnic and linguistic markers involving Assamese and Bengali-speaking people, the state has increasingly deployed religion- based rhetoric of Hindu-Muslim communalism to characterise such tensions in recent times. These Muslim minorities pose an existential threat to the Assamese people, land and security.

In such sensitive issues, the role of media becomes even more important as the information provided by media shape the popular opinion. Blatantly labelled as Bangladeshis, the Muslims were falsely accused as infiltration into Bodo areas by the Assamese media. The media by doing this justifies the violence of the Bodos.

The government, however, has taken no significant steps to change the situation in Assam. For instance, the culprits of Nellie massacre of 1983, a single culprit has not been prosecuted till date. Similar is the situation after the Bomb blast of Ganeshguri which took the lives over a hundred people. The main convict RajanDaimary is not in police custody. The successive governments have failed miserably and the issue has become a tug of war between political parties to gain power.

Some of the feasible solutions to this crisis could be to increase the pressure of the security operations that has forced the militants to mix with the civilians. The security forces have to put more pressure in identifying the militants.The government and the civil society should be focussed on bridging the fissures and hatred between the Bodos and non-Bodos.In the context of Assam, the Muslim minorities are largely agricultural, underrepresented in government jobs and politics and yet there appear to be layers of fear acting on the minds of the majority who construct a perceived threat by the minority. The government instead of building on this fear for vote bank politics should fix on the loopholes, Reforms have to be initiated in the BTAD and BTC for a representative democracy.

Life is a beautiful journey which is full of memories and inspiration. Your life is yours.All your near and dear ones can help   you to be  better day by day. It’s you who have to walk and do great in your life.You have to achieve your goals you have to accomplish your dreams all by yourself. In this life given by God you have to be strong ,strong enough to tolerate every storm every challenge that comes in your way.Finally you conquer all your dreams and ambitions.

1.How to move on in life

Life is not meant to be at one place.You have to keep moving on without looking back.Yes you can do one thing learn from your mistakes improve and move on.You should take a lesson from your past mistakes and move on.Just think that Will it matter after 5 years.In life nobody actually wants to know what you did.Everybody sees your present.Today who you are as a person.

2.How to stop dwelling in past

Dwelling in past is a very risky thing to do.You don’t need to see how your past was.It will do nothing better to you except leave you in tension and in worries.You can’t change the past.Whatever you did can’t be undone.Whatever you said can’t be taken back by you.In keeping yourself occupied with past you won’t be able to concentrate ,focus on your present and will eventually destroy your future which you can make presently.Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet to come .You have only present to make it worth.

3.What is right for you

You should know what is good for you.What is right for you.What is right might be bad for others and vice versa .You know yourself better than others.You know what is best for you.You know your strengths and weaknesses better than anybody.Your weakness can be a great strength for you at times.Others can guide you,suggest you ultimately you have to decide what is good for you.What will make you and what will break you.

4.How to balance your life

You have to keep a right balance in your life.You can’t leave one thing at the expense of other things.You can’t niether leave your family nor e with personal lifeyour friends.Both are indispensable in your life.If family is a family then friends are a family away from family.Its you who have to keep the right balance.Spend time with your family as well as friends.If you are working in an office then you should try not to mix your personal life with professional life and your professional life.Keep your professional life separate from your personal life and vice versa.As mixing both the life you will end up losing both of it.. professional as well as personal.Learn to be professional in office or when doing office work and be personal in your personal matters.

5.How to maintain friendships

Having a number of friends is not a miracle instead having true friends is a miracle.It takes years to build up a friendship which will last a lifetime.Friendship is not given but its build up.Friendship is a two way process.Friendship does not mean to be very much there in sunny days.It requires to be with your friends in every situation whether good or bad.

To maintain a friendship you must understand each other,you must trust each other,you must be connected,you must be open to each other.Friendship is not a one way thing.You can’t force anyone to be friends with you.You can’t force anyone to talk to you.If your friends want to be your friends they will no matter what.A friendship is made with trust as a base it is nurtured by being there for each other and is finally made by efforts efforts to stay connected to meeting once in a while.Most importantly to be supportive.You may fight with each other.You may irritate each other.You may get annoyed yet a real friend knows that it wont effect the bond of friendship.

8.What to do when life doesn’t go as per your plans

When life does not goes as you have planned it to be.You should change your way not your ultimate goal.Stick to your goal your aim.Don’t change your goals instead find new ideas to find the way to your goal.Whatever you do do it patiently do it diligently.Restart with a new way.Make a timetable.Have a To do list.Remember if you have been put into a situation you will be able to come out from it may be slowly but at the end you will.

9.How to deal with stress and depression

In your life you will come to a point where you will be seeing yourself so stressful.Whatever might be the reason.Its only you who can say goodbye to your stress by being strong in life.You should be matured but not to be so matured that you stop enjoying small things in life.Enjoying small things in life will lead you to bigger things.You can get away with it by doing what you love what you are fond of .Reading books ,spending time with family,listening music,going for a run.It will help you to come out from your stress.

10.How to do good in life

You can do well in life only if you want to.For this you have to be determined to do better.You have to be strong very strong ,firm in your decisions, love your work , work hard,blend experiences and technology in a beautiful way.Learn from others.Speak less Listen more.Help everyone.Say thank you and sorry more often.Be good to people.

11.How to stay fit

Be fit once you are determined to be fit you will be.Don’t be fit for others but for yourself.Fitness does not mean to be physically fit but it also means to have a beautiful mind.If you are mentally fit it will reflect outside.Wellness means to have a healthy body which will make your mind healthy and at the end you will have a healthy soul.Staying fit will encourage and motivate you to do more.

12.Have believe in yourself

The people around you will try to break you will rate you will try to weaken you in every way psychologically emotionally financially.They will do all kind of things to discourage you de motivate you.But its you who have to have believe in yourself.I can and I will.Have a positive attitude .It can be that you will not be getting success but you have to believe in yourself and never give up on yourself.People around you might leave you even if they do take it as a challenge and move on with having faith in yourself.In the end you will be victorious in achieving your goals.If you want to do something go ahead and do it.

13.How to stop pleasing everyone

You can’t impress everyone in your life.No matter how good you do to them they will still not appreciate and praise you.Remember you are here for a reason.God has given you life not to impress others but to inspire.In trying to please everyone you will lose yourself.If people are hating you for no reason just let them do.You give attention to the people who love you for no reason admire you appreciate you care for you.Love people but not overdo it.

14.How to be a good human being in life.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good human being.Everyone can help you .You can read books on self help how to lead a happy life etc.These books can only help you to understand but not completely help you.As in life everyone has a different route different direction to live their life.Every person has his own struggles of life.You can be a good human being when you start to have empathy for others than sympathy.You can improve yourself with each new morning with every sunrise you can and you will.Everyday is a new experience for you to learn and grow.

15.Never to stop trying

You should never stop trying .Try everyday.Life stops once you stop trying.Trying keeps you alive.Putting efforts will help you to achieve whatever you want.The more you try the more you will learn the more you learn the more you will grow and progress in every way in every field.Its better to try than to regret later.

Lying at the close

Back of your mind, etched with that regret.

Darkness isn’t much of a threat.

But pray for an unborn spark,

Because what gives you away is starless dark.

Hope ain’t visible,

Not even at the distance of light years.

We will have to fight it through,

With our inner selves to let it go.

The devil residing in there

won’t easily come to bow.

Release the little soul you own

Of all those filthy curses;

Though your wounds won’t be familiar

with the new verses.

But first let the blessings sink in

Only then you will have the sensation,

Close enough to morphine kicking in.

Only the hallucination won’t be virtual ,

Everything you desire for will be real.

A five-year-old girl would be dead by the time you finish reading this article.  Well, you can’t do anything for that and death won’t stop if you stop reading so, read on.The combined tally of deaths caused by the nuclear explosion was around 2 lakhs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, every year 8 lakh children are dying due to diarrhoea making it 284 times more lethal than the little boy and the Fatman(the cute name given to destruction).

Extraordinary death caused by technology/military/terrorists seem exquisite to us, that is why we tend to remember them for so long. The ordinary death of the defenceless does not give us that pleasure(to contemplate upon causes and create conspiracy theories). This is when these ordinary deaths can be avoided easily.

You might have thought this article is some joke but wait, sometimes the truth needs to be told in the form of a joke so that people don’t beat you up for that. This is some serious stuff and what is coming will make you uncomfortable so if you lack the guts please stop now.

These children are left unattended like we leave our children to consume shit and die

Now, for a minute I make you the judge to solve this case.

Sunder and his friends were putting slow poison in the village pond every day, in one year 200 of the villagers died of it. So, would you as a judge charge Sunder and his friends for murder?

Almost all of us will answer affirmatively to that, we will try Sunder and give him harshest of punishment. Now, apply the same logic to the villagers who shit here and there turning the village nimboo pani(lemonade) into diarrhoea pani(diarrhoea water), would you put the entire village population behind bars.

No, here the fundamental difference is the lack of understanding of the consequences of the action. Sunder intentionally put the poison into the pond but the villagers they did not know that their shit is toxic, that their shit will tomorrow kill their own people, that saving Rs. 10000 in building the toilet costs them the lives of their children and dignity of their women (whom the village male stare at while squatting)

‘’So, tell them it is lethal and they will stop’’ most of you must be thinking. But just imagine if I tell you tomorrow that your using toilet is dangerous for others and you should better defecate in open. How would you feel? Won’t you be uncomfortable to try out a new practice? Change scares humans, even us living in hostels tend to use the same toilet seat every time so, then how to bring fast and effective change?

Change is a process, though it starts with information but it does not end there. For eg., there is a propensity of flies that if it finds the food interesting, it vomits the old food and fill up its tummy with new. Now, most of the flies sit on the shit, so next time you see a fly on your plate then remember it has vomited the shit there and you will eat the shit. Apartment people don’t generally eat human excreta they will eat dog’s/pig’s or any of your beloved pets shit.

Now this information which is actually a fact  is going to make you uncomfortable at the sight of flies for days but after a while, you will loose interest in the absence of any option(you can’t leave those tasty samosas just because there is some shit in that). However, what if I sell you some shitless samosas, yes, you will readily take it.

The same kind of approach is needed for Swachh Bharat Mission, first inform people that there is shit in their food and the shit is killing them then, provide them with choices on how to combat it i.e construction of toilets etc. But what about the people who don’t have money(the money under SBM comes after you construct half of the toilet), involve MNREGA  to construct it for them.

All these issues have been dealt with in our proposal. We want the government to adopt them, you can contribute in that. Visit the link below and see for yourself, vote if you think that it has some merit (Some terms are technical just youtube it). Please give your suggestions in the comments section. The girl mentioned at the beginning has died but your 15 seconds can cause policy change and can save the other one waiting to be consumed by death.

TEAM: SWA CHETHNA

Sudeep Nagarkar does not needs any introduction as far as writing field is concerned.He is the best selling author of nine books.He is not only a good writer but also a good human being.He has readers from all over the world.

1.At what age he started writing

He started  writing in his after twenties at the age of  23 – 24

2. His first creation was published in the year

His first book named Few Things Left Unsaid was published on 10th July 2011 which received a warm response from everyone.It was the debut novel for Sudeep Nagarkar.

3.His idea of becoming a full time writer

As Writing was his passion .He had written a couple of books.  Its was quite difficult to shift from engineering to management and then finally to becoming a full time writer.But he  had believe in himself was able to convince  his parents about his idea of becoming a full time writer.

4. How many days he takes to complete a book

He takes a couple of months to complete writing his books.

5. His stories are fiction

All his stories in his books are not out of fiction but are the stories of real life incidents.His stories are inspired from the real life incidents.His latest book All Rights Reserved For You is also the story of his life.

6. How his life has changed after becoming a writer

After becoming a successful writer nothing has changed in his life.He is  same for his friends his family his relatives.He tries his level best to reply to his readers messages.He does not thinks how many books by him have been sold.Instead he tries to give readers a message through his books and tries to make positive changes in his books.In short he tries his level best to give a social message to his readers in his books.

7. How he stay calm while writing a book                      

     He tries to stay calm while writing a book.He is supported by his spouse Jasmine.She is the one who supports him while he is writing a book.She calms her down from the very start of him writing a book to the book being published.

8. At what time he prefers writing during day or in night

He doesn’t have any specific time to write.Once he starts writing he gets completely engrossed in it.

9. His first reader

All his books are always read by Jasmine.She is his first reader from his very first book to his latest book.

10. His message to all the budding writers and his extended family his readers?

His message to especially the Budding Writers is to be patient and to be honest in their writings.

His message to his extended family his readers is to stay happy stay healthy.To come out of the virtual world and live in the real world.To spend time with friends and family.