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Anti-CAA Protest In Assam Hasn't Come From Out Of The Blue Tyres were being burned to protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill at Bengenakhowa Chariali, Golaghat (12 December 2019; 4:27pm). By Mithu Das   January 03, 2020 AASU and other student bodies started protesting against Citizenship Amendment Bill  since it was tabled in the Union Cabinet meeting. The Bill, they said, doesn't meet Assam Accord. Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Assam bandh was continuing for the third consecutive day in my hometown Golaghat. At around 10:30 in the morning, I was riding my bicycle on G. F. Road, heading towards the town. ...

The Death of Shakyamuni The Death of the Buddha. By Mithu Das   November 13, 2019 Before he died, the last message Shakyamuni Buddha gave his disciples was: "Be a torch unto yourselves". It was December, 482 BC(?), Shakyamuni or the Buddha—who was eighty years old then—was en rout to Kuśināra (present-day Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India). He was accompanied by Ananda, his first cousin, and several other disciples. In the late December, they crossed the Ganges river and arrived at a village called Bailva. There they stayed for a few days, begging house to house by preaching Buddha's thought...

A Bike Ride From Golaghat To Furkating A boy enjoying riding his bicycle on Golaghat-Furkating Road, near Tetelital. By Mithu Das   October 30, 2019 Riding a bicycle from Golaghat to Furkating can be pretty exciting, especially on Sunday afternoons in October. It can be pretty exciting because the roadway connecting the two places is a single roadway on which traffic move from both directions. There is no separate lanes for bicyclists or pedestrians. Accidents are inevitable if one should not careful with their driving or biking. It was the Sunda...

Do You Believe in God, Sir/Madam? The letter Mr Tony Blair sent us from 10 Downing Street, London. By Mithu Das   May 06, 2019 When I was a young adult, I had been sending letters (from 1996 to 1998) to a dozen of famous people, asking them three questions about God and the meaning of human life. Those who had responded were Mr. Tony Blair, Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Mr. Bittu Shagal, Sister Nirmala Joshi, Nirupoma Borgohain, Dr. Dinesh Chandra Goswami and Santanoo Tamuly. My three questions to them were: (1) Do you believe in God?, (2) What is the meaning of life?, and (3) How a human being should try to live? ...