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Receding Images | Trace of Incense |
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Article : Values Matter, Not Identities

During the past years, we have heard enough about protecting, preserving and promoting the cultural identity of various ethnic groups. In Assam, such slogans were repeatedly heard during the time of Assam Movement when the agitations leaders, mostly the students, wanted to protect the so-called Assamese identity by driving away the lakhs of foreigners. In fact a group of politically ambitious individuals were basically responsible for such slogans in Assam and they misused the student force in order to get their burning desire for political power fulfilled.
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About Me

Khiren Roy was born at Matia, a small village of Goalpara district of Assam, India's northeastern state, bordering Myanmar. He did his M.A. in English literature, a higher course in Mass Communication organised jointly by the Press Institute of India and the Thomson Foundation, U.K. Later he earned a Ph.D. degree in Mass Communication from the Gauhati University.
 

Khiren Roy Novels

1. Durgam Abhijan 1972
2. R.G. Baruah Builder of Modern Assam 1985
3. Phular dare Geetar Dare 1974
4. View Point - Weekly column (starting from Assam Tribune carried over The North East Times) 1986-94
5. Dristikon (Assamiya Khabor) 2001-till date
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