miyah poem | SabrangIndia News Related to Human Rights Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:23:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Favicon_0.png miyah poem | SabrangIndia 32 32 Who Are Miyah Poets and Why Are They Melancholic? https://sabrangindia.in/who-are-miyah-poets-and-why-are-they-melancholic/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:23:57 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2019/09/17/who-are-miyah-poets-and-why-are-they-melancholic/ Miyah poets Ashraful Hussain and Hussain Ahmed Madani and human rights activist Abdul Kalam Azad talk to Indian Cultural Forum and NewsClick about how their poems are a matter of self-respect and identity for Assam’s down-trodden. Their words express the pain and suffering of the Bengal-origin Assamese people, who are seen as ‘outsiders’. Wider Assamese society and many […]

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]]> Miyah poets Ashraful Hussain and Hussain Ahmed Madani and human rights activist Abdul Kalam Azad talk to Indian Cultural Forum and NewsClick about how their poems are a matter of self-respect and identity for Assam’s down-trodden. Their words express the pain and suffering of the Bengal-origin Assamese people, who are seen as ‘outsiders’. Wider Assamese society and many outside Assam misunderstand or misrepresent their goals. “We are not anti-NRC or anti-Assamese identity. We just criticised the NRC process. And we are as Assamese as any other Assamese person, no matter what language or dialect we use,” they say.

 

Courtesy: Indian Cultural Forum

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