AN INSIGHT INTO MODERN TRIPURI SOCIETY,
[3/3/2010]
Somprai Debbarma, borokdb@rediffmail.com
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Tripura, the erstwhile great kingdom ruled by the worlds second oldest dynasty the Manikya dynasty had a glorious past by virtue of its mighty kings and her great people. Yes ! she was great once upon a time but not now...!!. The bwsa or sons of Tripura of this age proudly like to say that their land was once a great kingdom ruled by great kings as is evident from the Ujjayanta palace standing in the heart of the capital of which type we will find nowhere in present Eastern India, then we have the Neermahal- the largest lake palace in Eastern India, the mystic Unokoti, etc. But my dear brothers & sisters what we..!!, the current generation have done for our motherland ???
Yes..!! we have given the non indigenous people the land to stay for, our religion to be cared of, and our culture to be cultured by them! And it is facilitated by none other than the sons of soil of Tripura.
Now let us identify and classify these sons of soil.
The first section is the one who think that the closer they are with Bengalis the wiser and respectable they are in the society. They would like to speak in the bengali language rather than in the pahari (as called by the Bengalis) - their own ancestral language. They enjoy reciting poems, singing, dancing, etc. in the Bengla language which according to them is far more advanced than the pahari one and so they like to flow with the advanced language. Majority of this section stay in auli or town and they are regarded as well-educated! They feel shy and hesitate to wear their own pahari traditional attire and so wear the attire of the their's whom they believe are more advanced than that of the paharis, and thereby they regard themselves as high class tripuris (self- proclaimed). Ironically, they equally enjoy the ST status as the paharis to avail the facilities meant for the underprivileged. I would suggest that whoever do not know their mother language should be stripped off the ST category facilities.
Then comes the second section the pseudo guards of the political integrity of Tripura- the netas and self- proclaimed caretaker of the political arena in Tripura. These are none but a set of bourgeois politicians. There was a time when a section of wannabe guards thought that they need to float a political party to safeguard the interests of the Tripuris against the atrocities of the government run by the majority Bengali. It was formed and subsequently broke down into many, and the reason was that there were too many great leaders who are so by birth and therefore cannot afford to be lead by others! They formed their own parties where they could get chance to lead their respective followers.
Ironically, one of such parties had found solace in the form of an Indian national party, which if we go back to history; have facilitated the entry of refugees especially during 1971 war in our so-far-then peaceful Tripura.
Another set of such so-called leaders are the one who are with the current ruling government which claims to be poor peoples government (really??!!). Such leaders become big-nosed when called upajapti neta or comrade by their (non tiprasa) bosses in the government. These upajati netas believe that there is equal share of power between the two, not knowing that the dominant Bengalis are dominating and will always dominate in every field including us
The third section are the die-hard religious (self-proclaimed) guards which is further subdivided into two- one comprises of a section of newly convert christians who seems to have shunned their traditional religion(Animism) due to more of the fact that they hate their traditional religion rather than due to love for christianity. This section like to mock at people following their own traditional faith rather than preaching what Christianity really is and why it embraced by billions of people worldwide. They are more bothered about what people of other faiths do than their own religion.
The other sub-division is a section of those belonging to the traditional Tripuri faith, who claim themselves to be the real guards of traditions but seems to be guards more of the non indigenous religion. They organise pujas, festivals of the others in a very big way but do little or none during their own faiths festivals. In town particularly during puja or festivals, these section of people participate in the so-called clubs which impose puja fees on people rather than asking donations for organising such pujas.
In fact, this club system never existed in Tripura before and it is a culture brought by the Bengalis which has influenced the tiprasas to such an extent that nowadays we can find a good number of such clubs even in the rural areas. These clubs are mostly concentrated in urban areas and are abode to anti-social and notorious elements with destructive mindsets; in contrast to the clubs outside Tripura which are meant only for sports whereas religious events or festivals are taken care by some other social organisations. These clubs have destroyed the future of the Tiprasa youths particularly the students coming from villages in hope of better education. The foremost cause for the non-performance of Tiprasa students in academics is the exponentially rising trend of drug abuse in Tripura especially Agartala, which had of late become an abode for drug abuse. The reason is the easy accessibility of these drugs and the cheap cost price, leading to slow poisoning of Tripuri society.
These three sections mentioned above, I believe are the major elements, which will destroy our motherland in very near future if not eradicated. They are paving way for achieving the cherished dream of the non tiprasa.
I remember once at Agartala I came across an eminent Bangladeshi writer, who was in Tripura for a festival, saying in her speech that Tripura is just like another district of her country..!!!; and as expected there was a huge applause from the audience.
My dear brothers & sisters, can you imagine that..?? It is due to such sections of people mentioned above that we need to hear about such scary dreams..!!.
We need to identify and eradicate such people first before blaming others.
It can be achieved, I believe, by proper education and imparting them to the mass. Though education is not only one of the means to restore our lost glory but it is a major factor. For the deprived uneducated people, they don't bother who is from which religion or land, they know only the language of hunger, deprivation..!!; it is only the educated who understands the role of politics in the survival of ethnicity in this world. Thus it is a great responsibility and duty of the educated Tiprasa class of the current generation to realise the need of the hour in order to retain the glory of the Tiprasas in this world.
I believe: THE TIPRASAS WERE WARRIORS AND WILL BE WARRIORS FOREVER.
Hambai.
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".. Ata Somprai!!
Wow! that was a master piece of an article!
My hats off to you for this!!
I agree with each and every point of yours!!
Indeed rightly said!
but alas who cares!
out of 15 million tiprasas/boroks,i doubt how many people feel the same!
everyone seems to be busy in their own world!
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Dhiraj Debbarma, dhiraj_dj2004@yahoo.com
, 3/4/2010 |
".. It is indeed an insight into the tripuri society, but I think we have enough blame game, we have been into this game for a long time, no doubt the mention 3 categories of people are the main culprits to blame.
Now what we should look forward is how to move forward, even if it has to be with this corrupt people, we can never get rid of them, so we should learn to accept rejecting them and move on,
many younger generation don't like the CPIM leaders today, which is understandable, but can't still blame them and stop working for the people, NO, we have to work with them to the best possible, you cann't wait till the Govt changes, which may or may not, but we the people are there to stay.
through the writting of Somprai's article people should know our limitation and we should continue even if we have to work with all these people to the maximum. .."
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Wansuk, wansuk18@gmail.com
, 3/5/2010 |
| ".. dear samprai, brilliant work, i would like to add one opinion in addition to what you rightly said. Speaking bengali is no doubt a daily fashion among the aguli tipras. Perhaps, what i want to say is the "SURNAME" trend i.e "DEV BURMAN or DEBBURMAN". I observed in many instance, debbarma specially go for this surname. The trend is when we borok are able to buy a piece of land in agartala or sometime hardly two years stay at Bangali house(rent). We start speaking otherwise language without being aware of the future. The present outcome in the sociated is the result of our carelessness or being irresponsible, we should be blamed not they. This applies to triprasa doctors, engineers, lawyers, and others who are proud with gazetted post in government service, My question is should this continue? Lets be faithful within ourselves. This comment will apply to those who neglect mother kokborok. .."
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swapan, swapandebbarma83@gmail.com
, 3/6/2010 |
| ".. Samprai I think you have exceptionally written well what is considered to be very beautiful message to the people of Tripura whose tracts are being diverted due to selfish means.I think you should put more articles regurarly. When we know our Origin and resposibilities then we start growing.so well done .."
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champa, zinda_champa@yahoo.co.in
, 3/9/2010 |
".. hello da somprai..!!!
what is your real official name? i mean the name which your parents gave you??? and with which u passed your class 10 as well!!
plz dont take it otherwise.
actually i agree with each and every point of urs,as i said earlier too!
but dont you think its a cowardly act,using some fake self given name and then writing such a explosive article!!
hope u are not among those 4th section of our sons of soil,who know only how to bark,that also by using an alias name!!
i may be sounding too rude..but u just think over it!! what u doing is right or not??
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Dhiraj Debbarma, dhiraj_dj2004@yahoo.com
, 3/11/2010 |
| ".. Mr. Dhiraj wat problem do u hav with somprai..somprai is a kokborok name. "dhiraj word" seems to be a sanskritized word use by bengali...i hope am clear with ur doubts. .."
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Rj, rj@tiprasa.com
, 3/12/2010 |
".. @rj(somprai)
yes,my name is sanskritized! no doubts regarding that.....but atleast its not a bengali name,i would say!
See,in my this reply even i could have used some fake name,but i didn't!
i have no issues at all with ata somprai's article..
but i was just suggesting that we should use our real names,instead of some self given alias names(so that atleast we can know the person who is writing it)..!!
i feel,its enough of hide and seek game,amongst our tripuris!! you know its high time our tiprasas realise and start getting bold,matured and brave as well,one who doesnt fear to come forward and face the crowd,(if we indeed dream of a bright tripura future(instead of just knowing how to bark from amongst the lakhs of crowd)!!
otherwise theres certainly no space for cowards and weak hearted! .."
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Dhiraj Debbarma, dhiraj_dj2004@yahoo.com
, 3/12/2010 |
".. @Dhiraj
first of all am not the one you are thinking (RJ..!!?!!). I am not hiding anything from anyone and it is unfortunate that people are skeptic about my name.
@ all the tiprasa.com readers
In my article I have mentioned about the non-kokborok speaking prince of Tripura, but it had been deliberately removed and some words have been replaced from its original version..!!! by the administrative section/members of tiprasa.com without informing me, I certainly believe it is not in the etiquette of "editing" an article without the author's knowledge. Hope it is taken in positive sense by the website administrators. .."
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Somprai, borokdb@rediffmail.com
, 3/13/2010 |
".. Dear Brothers and sisters,
I can see every youngster is interested to restore the identity we have.Even i feel so.After talking to many of you sometimes I feel we should launch an organisation which will act as an umbrella for all borok people(non bengalis) no matter what religion they follow.But we should be very careful of not being controlled by any political parties or Religious groups.
Sometime I Feel we have lot of brlliant younger generations like you.
@Dhiraaj,@samprai,
why dont you guys organise such kind of community or society which can be called for all of us.
If we can build a society to be united in one place forgetting all our differences in grassroot level,we will be able to achieve what everyone dreams of.
Indeed all of you are excellently thinking for our future.I support you all.
Afterall,we need an identity which can be proudly pronounced together.
cheers
Sukanta Debbarma .."
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S.Debbarma, sukanta.debbarma@gmail.com
, 3/22/2010 |
".. Only Dhiraj and somprai cannot do this gigantic task alone....
we need the help of the seniors also,(to show us the path)
and also our other younger generation.......who r not concerned for the upkeeping of their culture and other things....
if they r nt bothered...why should we be?
as every one is selfish,even i am!!! .."
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Dhiraj Debbarma, dhiraj_dj2004@yahoo.com
, 3/25/2010 |
| ".. Dear, Brother a very nice piece of article, may be I'll call it a wake-up call. Every point you've mentioned here are real, true and a fact thus needs attention. Some might call it anti but so is everyone on every point, but when we raise such a point we'll always be called so, but we aren't anti-national we too like other billions of Indian love our Country and proud of it. But We say don't discriminate and alienate Our people. We would like to read more of your works in future. .."
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Ashim, anthinio225@gmail.com
, 4/2/2010 |
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