[IAC#RG] Tricolor hoisted at press club

Tricolor hoisted at press club GUWAHATI, 26 JANUARY: Defying the diktat of separatist militants in northeast India, the media fraternity of the city has celebrated the 64th Republic Day of India at Guwahati Press Club. Following the tradition, the  media persons and other patriotic citizens had assembled in the campus of the pioneer press club of the region and hoisted the national flag. Social worker and a former legislator of Assam, Ajay Dutta unfurled the tricolor in presence of the media persons in the morning and paid his heartfelt tributes to the martyrs of India's Freedom movement. In his brief speech, Dutta remembered the contribution of thousands of martyrs for their sacrifices which finally brought the freedom to India. He paid his tribute s to all martyrs and expressed dismay that 'we are yet to identify many martyrs and their families living in different parts of the country'. "The contribution of each and every freedom fighter of our liberation movement against the British colonial power should be recognized and documented," added Dutta. Earlier senior journalist Hiten Mahanta briefed the gathering about the importance of Republic Day and also mentioned about the initiative taken by a section of journalists and patriotic citizens who had come out to defy the militants' call to boycott the celebrations of both the Republic and Independence Day. Later the participants including journalists Ranen Kumar Goswami, Nava Thakuria, DN Singh, Pranabjit Doley  with Jagadindra Raichoudhury,  Jaharlal Saha etc also took out a procession  on the streets chanting patriotic slogans. --- On Sat, 1/26/13, Venkatraman Ns <nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com> wrote: From: Venkatraman Ns <nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com> Subject: [IAC#RG] INDIAN ANTI CORRUPTION MOVEMENT YET TO MAKE IMPACT To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 2:57 PM   To   India Against Corruption                                                              INDIAN  ANTI  CORRUPTION  MOVEMENT  YET  TO  MAKE  IMPACT In spite of the huge noise made in the print and visual media about the anti corruption movement in India, the ground reality is that there is no improvement in the situation. Obviously, this means that  street  demonstrations,  debate in television media, ,  seminars , comments  in  twitter , blogs  and face books cannot take the movement forward. What is conspicuous is that while the corrupt people demand bribe for any activity and even for cremation of human bodies, almost all people simply  pay the bribe money  and sometimes after negotiation.  The corrupt people seem to have the last laugh now, as they see that "barking dogs seldom bite" What is required is intense and dedicated resistance to  corruption at individual  level,  which is not forthcoming.   This calls for sacrifice on the part of the people who want to fight against corruption. Even some of the most  vociferous  people against  corrupt conditions simply pay the bribe and get things done and then complain. They plead  excuse saying that they are helpless.  This is unacceptable situation and such conditions mean that the anti corruption movement is  carried out in vacuum.  Unless there would resistance to corruption at individual level by  atleast small section of committed population, the movement will not go anywhere. Why not those committed to fight corruption take a oath that they will never succumb to pay bribe under any circumstances  and announce this in public domain? N.S.Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived Chennai Email:- nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com  -----Inline Attachment Follows----- Post: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net" Exit: "indiaresists-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net" Quit: "https://lists.riseup.net/www/signoff/indiaresists" Help: https://help.riseup.net/en/list-user WWW : http://indiaagainstcorruption.net.in