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[krisnosura]

These are the mainest main characters.

Top left: Chandrabhan (Chandra) Phukan. He is pansexual.

Top right: Benudhar (Benu) Acharya (Chandra's partner). He is bisexual.

Bottom left: Nilmitra (Nil) Goswami (Chandra's childhood bestie). He is straight.

Bottom right: Gayatri (Gaya) Rabha (Nil's partner and member of the GayaNilChand trio). She is straight.

These two are roommates, and have been roommates for 10 years in the gurukul (basically a Vedic-system school) now. Chandra on arriving in the gurukul for the first time becomes roommates with these two.

Yug (Yugantar) hates Chandra's future boyfriend, Benu due to some feud their families had with each other (I will get to it later prolly) and Sudem and Chandra are like stuck in this unwanted beef. Sudem, however, will always be on Yug's side, even though secretly he asks Yug to not be so mean to Benu for something that was out of his hands.

Yug is aroace.

Sudem's sexuality is unknown (he doesn't tell me wtf) but he's mostly straight.

We all know about Gayatri by now.

Alpana and Yangkyi are her friends, and swimming buddies.

Yangkyi is also Sudem's future love interest, and she is like Richie Tozier to Sudem's Eddie Kaspbrak. Go figure. Yangkyi's sexuality is fluid and her ex's name is Ganga (Haven't drawn her yet).

Alpana is aroace but she becomes good friends with Yug (aroace duo).

Poumit was also Nil's roommate in the beginning. Then he shifted with Yug and Sudem after Chandra shifted to Nil's.

Gyan is a minor character who becomes a friend of Nil.

Poumit is straight.

Gyan is also straight.

Characters I haven't drawn yet:

1. Abhigyan (Benu's cousin and initial roommate, but he later shifts with Nil after Chandra shifts with Benu). He is straight.

2. Ganga (Yangkyi's ex. She wanted a poly relationship after she cheated on Yangkyi with another boy but Yangkyi refused). She is probably polysexual idk.

3. Arun (one of Nil's friends). Straight man.

4. Harideb and Udipti Phukan (Chandra's parents)

5. Yug and Benu's parents.

6. Jyotirmoy Rajbongshi (Harideb's friend. He's a middle-aged gay man.)

7. Himabhas (the gurukul owner and teacher.) And his family. He has two sons- Amrit and Pradyut. They help him in running the gurukul.

8. Mr. Kakoti (The Phukans' neighbor and Harideb's friend.) Straight guy.

More characters and updates on them and the story may/will come as my book progresses.

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[bongboyblog]

A dialect? or a language?

I might lose a lot of readers as a result of writing this post... might even get hate mails (lol), hopefully not. But I think this is a topic that I had to bring up on this blog. So... here we go...

I’ve been seeing a lotta controversy online (including on Tumblr), about whether or not Sylheti and Chittagonian are individual languages. Now, it’s alright if the people themselves don’t want to be called Bengali but there are some points that need to be addressed. I’m not a linguist and these are just the conclusions I have come to after reading some books and doing research online .

A language is a dialect too. It’s just a more widely known, standard, or maybe ‘official’ dialect. The Standard Bengali language is thus a dialect too. But it would be wrong to say that every Bengali speaks in this standard form. Thus those who don’t and yet claim to be Bengali and speak dialects ‘similar’ to the standard dialect can be said to be Bengali. No opposition with that I hope. 

Now the question is, do speakers of these dialects consider themselves Bengali? I’d say part yes, part no. I’ve come across people who argue that Sylhetis are in no way Bengali and then I’ve come across Sylhetis who seem more Bengali than I do. They speak better Bangla than me!

Let me tell the non-northeast Bengalis (since most people are surprisingly ignorant abt it), the people of Sylhet region in post Independence India gave their blood to be Bengali (google the horrific Bongal Kheda movement and the brave Bengali language movement in Assam, India). That’s how fiercely Bengali they are. I don’t know about the Sylhetis of Bangladesh, but the Sylhetis of India do consider themselves Bengali and will hate you if you call them non-Bengali. No kidding!

Also, I’ve noticed that the majority of people who assert that their language is independent and distinct from Bengali are desis living outside of South Asia. Most of them have feeble or no connection with their homeland and never had the chance of learning standard Bengali. I’m saying ‘most’. As such I don’t know how authentic their point of view should be considered. How can you claim your dialect is different when you’re not aware of how different the other dialects are? Again, I repeat, ‘most’ not all.

Then there are people who’ll claim they’re not Bengali because they’re supposedly from a different ethnic group. But Bengali is not merely an ethnic tag. It’s also a socio-political and lingual identity. So it’s fine if your dialect or, ‘language’ if you prefer that, is not Standard Bengali. Or if you look different from a ‘typical Bengali’. As long as you’re from the region and claim to be Bengali, I don’t see any reason why you can’t be a Bengali. 

And just to make it clear, Kolkata and Dhaka Bangla are NOT truly Standard Bangla. Most of us have some regional traits in our speech. We have a ‘Standard’ language so that people from various regions of Bengal (Sylhet and Chittagong fall under this geopolitical entity too) can communicate with each other. Bengali is like an umbrella term, and will lose it’s meaning if everyone assert their regional culture to be distinct and separate.

Ami ki kotha koiDhi bujhoDho to? (Medinipuri country dialect)

Medinipuri Rarhi= Ami ki koitichhi bujhte pattichhen to?

Shadhu (hope I’m correct)= Ami jaha koitechhi apni bujhite paritechhen to?

(Ami ki bolchhi bujhte parchhen to? Are you able to understand what I’m trying to say?) These are just the varieties spoken in West Medinipur! Sylhet and Chittagong are located quite far from Central Bengal (Standard Bangla is supposed to be developed from the Nadia dialect), it’s only fair that their speech will have some variations!!

There are a bunch of people who say that these dialects are ‘corrupt’ Bangla, that’s not true either! They evolved on their own, parallel to Standard Bangla. 

So should the dialects/languages be considered independent languages? I think it should be left to the individual speaker to decide. I or anyone else for that matter have no right in telling people whether or not they speak Bengali or are Bengali. All I want to say is that there’re more kinds of Bengalis than what the media (both South Asian and Western) portray and that all forms of Bangla and Bangali are valid. 

Nomoskar (Nomoshkar is not really the right way to pronounce it, like a majority of Bengalis do. Nope. It’s a dontto so not a talobbo sho. See? I told ya, don’t go by Kolkata or Dhaka standards :) )

I’m open to discussion, as long as you’re willing to listen too. :)

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Home Minister announces welfare projects for Koch-Rajbongshi community

Home Minister announces welfare projects for Koch-Rajbongshi community

With an eye on the upcoming polls in Assam and West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Thursday, announced a host of welfare initiatives for the Koch-Rajbongshi community primarily inhabiting the northern regions of Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya. Welfare projects worth at least ₹750 crore were announced, while more are expected in the coming days. The community is said to wield considerable…

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#amit shah #Assam #BJP #Cooch Behar #election manifesto #hill tribes #Home Minister #Koch-Rajbongshi #west bengal

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#hirok rajbongshi

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Gayatri Devi (1919-2009).

Indian princess and politician.

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She was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949, a politician, and philanthropist who was admired as an icon of glamorous royalty but later emerged as an outspoken politician and social activist.

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Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father was Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and her mother was Maratha Princess Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III.

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In 1940 she became the third wife of Sawai Man Singh II, the maharajah of Jaipur and an international polo player. Gayatri Devi rejected purdah (the seclusion expected of female Indian royalty), traveled frequently, and received foreign dignitaries, including U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962. Gayatri Devi also founded several girls’ schools.

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Following India's independence and the abolition of the princely states, she became a successful politician in the Swatantra Party. She advocated free enterprise and greater involvement with the West. She served 12 years in Swatantra Party, during which time she was a prominent critic of Indira Gandhi's government. When Prime Minister Gandhi declared a state of emergency in 1975, she was arrested due to an alleged political vendetta on the false accusation of violating tax laws and was jailed for five months. After her departure from politics, she lived a quiet life in her large estate, spending time with her grandchildren and on hobbies and leisure.

She published her biography, A Princess Remembers, written by Santha Rama Rau, in 1976.

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Gayatri Devi was also celebrated for her classical beauty and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood.

She was a particularly avid equestrienne. She was an excellent rider and an able Polo player. Her Highness was fond of cars and is credited with importing the first Mercedes-Benz W126, a 500 SEL to India which was later shipped to Malaysia.

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She had a son, Prince Jagat Singh.

She died on 29 July 2009 in Jaipur, at the age of 90. She was suffering from paralytic ileus and a lung infection. She left an estate estimated at nearly half a billion USD.

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Citizenship Bill: Bandhs affect several districts in Assam Source link

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Mamata Banerjee says PM Modi is a liar, taunts her at meetings

est Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday addressed a rally in Cooch Behar ahead of phase 4 polling in West Bengal and attacked the prime minister, saying he taunts her at meetings. Calling PM Narendra Modi a "liar", Mamata Banerjee said, "PM Modi is a liar. At each meeting, he taunts me and lies."

Mamata Banerjee also said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lied about the creation of a separate Narayani battalion within the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). She said her government has already created a Narayani battalion within the Bengal police.

Both the parties -- the BJP and the TMC -- are trying to woo the Rajbongshi community in Cooch Behar with a Narayani battalion. While Mamata Banerjee said that her government has formed it, the Centre rejected the claims, saying she's "bluffing voters by quoting an RTI response".

#PM Modi news #BJP news #indian news

[arnabreyaan]

নিদ্ৰাহীন স্বপ্নোগামীসকল

সকলো নিদ্ৰাহীনতাৰ আসক্ত

উজগৰী কুবীৰ

যি ধন লালসাত আসক্ত

সিহঁতৰ তেজত তেজপীয়াৰ বিষ

যিসকল সফলতাৰ উদাসীনতাত ফেকুৰে

সিহঁত ৰ্সপদংশীত

তৰাবোৰ ভালপাবলৈ

সিহঁত ভয়াতুৰ

পৰামৰ্শ লয় আন এজন অচিনাকীৰ ।

কৰ্মত উজাগৰী সিহঁত

এজন এজন কয়েদি

সুখৰ সন্ধানত সিহঁতৰ

কুৰি বছৰীয়া চিৎকাৰ

শুকাই যায় সিহঁত

সুখ লাগে সিহঁতক

সুখ বিচাৰি সিহঁত

নিদ্ৰাহীনতাত আসক্ত

"জীৱন সপোন নহয় । সাৱধান !"

সাৱধান হয় সিহঁত

বাৰে বাৰে উচ্চতাৰ পৰা

উচ্চতৰলৈ যাবৰ কঠোৰ পৰিশ্ৰম

সিহঁত স্বপ্নবীহিন

আদ্ৰতা বিহিন

সিহঁতে দেখা নাই কুঁৱলী

গচকা নাই নিয়ৰৰ দুঁবৰী

খোৱা নাই বাটকাশৰীয়া

বগা ফুল বোৰৰ শুস্বাদু মিঠাবোৰ

মৃত্যুৰ ভয়ত সিহঁতে

কান্ধত কঢ়িয়াই

ভাগৰুৱা চকুৰ বোজা ।

সাৱধান ! সাৱধান !

সিহঁতৰ পৰা

সিহঁতৰ দেহত

তেজপীয়াৰ আঁচোৰ

সৰ্পদংশনৰ দাগ

সাৱধান সিহঁতৰ পৰা

যিসকলে সপোনৰ

সাঁকোত খোজ পেলোৱা নাই

সেই মৃতপ্ৰায়ৰ কেৱল

পোচাকবোৰ দৃশ্যমান

ইয়াত সকলো নিদ্ৰাহীনতাত আসক্ত

সকলো জোনাকৰ নিচাত

ইয়াৰ স্বপ্নোগামীসকলৰ

এচাম বেশ্যা

আৰু আনচাম নাটকৰ কংকাল ।।

✍️Arnab Reyaan Rajbongshi

[aboriginalblog]

Surnames of koch rajbanshi or rajbongshi people of Koch Kamatapur (present Northbengal) region. Karjee and Ishore are surnames from relation point of view.

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[orbemnews]

A Biologist, an Outlandish Stork and the Army of Women Trying to Save It Life can change in an instant, as I experienced when I first laid my eyes on a tall and bizarrely striking bird known as the greater adjutant. It was India in 2018, in the northeastern state of Assam. I’d ended up there partly because of absurd circumstances, which involved being filmed for a reality television pilot while navigating a motorized rickshaw through the Himalayas. After traversing some of the highest and most dangerous roads in the world, including the Tanglang La mountain pass, I ventured off to see a traditional selection of endangered animals: Asian elephants, greater one-horned rhinos, western hoolock gibbons. While en route to Guwahati, Assam’s capital, I saw a 5-foot-tall bird towering near the roadside. I was so taken by its appearance that I asked the driver to pull over so I could have a better look. It had piercing blue eyes, an elongated electric-yellow neck, a wobbly, inflatable neck pouch, long legs that moved with a stiff military gait, and spindly black hairs atop its (mostly bald) prehistoric-looking head. Little did I know that this outlandish animal — also endangered, though not famously so — would change the course of my professional life. Seeing how intrigued I was by the giant stork, the driver offered to take me to the site of the largest year-round population of greater adjutants in the world. To my surprise, he led me to the sprawling Boragaon landfill, a dumpsite that borders the Deepor Beel wetland, an ecologically important water storage basin threatened by pollution and encroachment. As we pulled into the landfill, I felt like I was entering a post-apocalyptic fever dream: Refuse was piled up higher than an East Village tenement building. I saw countless people, including young children, sorting through the garbage with their bare hands. Cows were grazing on medical waste, and feral dogs chased each other through the mountains of trash. All the while, an excavator kept pushing the trash heap taller and taller. In the middle of this surreal scene, scavenging beside garbage-stained cattle egrets, were the spectacular greater adjutants, who were circling and stiffly marching alongside the other foragers. After returning from India, I realized that my encounter with the greater adjutants had irrevocably changed me. Until then, I’d doggedly chased a career in New York City as a comedic ventriloquist while juggling mundane day jobs. Wildlife photography was relatively new to me; I had only considered it an enjoyable hobby. But suddenly I wanted to pursue conservation photography with every fiber of my being. I quickly discovered the work of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, a wildlife biologist who has dedicated her life to protecting greater adjutants. The founder of the Hargila Army, a local all-female, grass-roots volunteer conservation effort, Dr. Barman led her corps of women in protecting nesting sites, saving fallen baby birds and educating the Assamese community on the importance of these rare and endangered scavengers. After corresponding with Dr. Barman for several months, I traveled back to Assam in February 2020. Dr. Barman invited me to stay at her home in Guwahati, where she lives with her husband, who is also a wildlife biologist, and her twin teenage daughters. On our first visit together to the villages of Dadara, Pacharia and Singimari, on the outskirts of Guwahati, Dr. Barman continuously pointed out her car window at “hargilas,” the local word for greater adjutants that is derived from the Sanskrit word for “bone swallower.” I couldn’t believe how many of the birds were peering down at us from their huge nests and soaring on thermals high above our heads — especially since, in 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated that only between 800 and 1,200 mature individuals were left in existence, with the population in decline. Assam is the last stronghold of this endangered species, harboring more than 80 percent of the greater adjutant’s global population. (The remaining population is split between Cambodia and the Indian state of Bihar.) In the past, Dr. Barman explained, greater adjutants were viewed as unsanitary nuisances and believed to be bad omens, resulting in many of their nesting trees being cut down. Much of the Hargila Army’s efforts are aimed at protecting such trees. The group’s efforts are also directed at rehabilitating society’s perception of the birds — to “bring the birds into the hearts, minds and cultures of the people,” Dr. Barman said. Conservation work has long been plagued by taxonomic bias, since humans generally favor attractive mammals with forward-facing eyes. “The more people who see hargilas as a bad omen, disease-carrier and pest,” Dr. Barman told me, “the more I am obsessed.” The work has paid dividends. The greater adjutant’s local population has risen to an estimated 950 birds, up from 400 birds in 2007. The number of nesting colonies in the villages of Dadara, Pacharia and Singimari has also risen during the same interval — to 220 nests, up from 28. In recent years the Hargila Army has grown to include thousands of pledged members — people who have received some level of conservation training — and around 400 women who are actively involved in leading the movement. Most of its organizers are rural homemakers who are helping to integrate an appreciation for greater adjutants into local traditions. They weave greater adjutant motifs into traditional Assamese textiles and incorporate greater adjutant themes into baby showers. The most distinctive awareness program I witnessed was at a local wedding that included effigies of the giant bird guarding the entrance and hargila-themed henna drawn on the hands and arms of wedding guests, myself included. Dr. Barman’s efforts have led to a broader sense of empowerment among the women who make up the Hargila Army. Many receive tools and training — including donated hand looms and sewing machines — that can help them earn additional income. “It seems like our life has completely changed after integrating hargila motifs into our clothes,” said a member of the Hargila Army named Jonali Rajbongshi, who, after receiving a new sewing machine, began sewing cotton bags embroidered with greater adjutants. We also visited the house of a woman named Pratibha Malakar, who wove a red-and-white hargila gamosa — a traditional towel-like textile — with transfixing speed and expertise. Dr. Barman told me that her community conservation model could easily be reproduced in other parts of the world. “Women are the key and the biggest change makers,” she explained. “When we educate women, when we involve women, we achieve a sustainable goal.” Awareness programs among local schools are another of the group’s tactics, and I went along with Dr. Barman on a few such surprise visits. Her presentations, which include lively discussions, informational pamphlets, educational games and coloring pages, had the students on the edges of their seats. Near the end of my time in Assam, I accompanied Dr. Barman and her team back to the Boragaon landfill, where she led an outreach program. Children sat among the debris, eating sweets and coloring in drawings of the eccentric storks. In the middle of her presentation, I looked around to find our corner of the landfill filled with laughter and gaiety. It was an unexpected joyous moment: all of us brought together from such different circumstances by a remarkable woman and an endangered, if often overlooked, scavenger — the unlikely target of a spellbinding and transformative conservation campaign. Carla Rhodes is a wildlife conservation photographer who lives in the Catskills. You can follow her work on Instagram. Source link Orbem News #Army #Biologist #Outlandish #save #Stork #Women

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Lok Sabha passes Citizenship Bill; opposition calls it 'divisive', 'flawed' Immediately after home minister Rajnath Singh introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said there are "flaws" in the bill that does not address the Assam Accord and requested the Speaker to send it to a select committee. His party walked out after the Speaker refused to accept the demand. Source link

#Asaduddin Owaisi #Assam Movement #Bhartruhari Mahtab #Breaking News #eastern #Google news #india #India news #India news today #Koch Rajbongshi people #Lalu Prasad Yadav #Narendra Modi #Rashtriya Janata Dal #Today news

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#burning issues

[abhay121996-blog]

The Koch-Rajbongshi Conundrum And The 2021 Elections Divya Sandesh

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The Koch-Rajbongshi Conundrum And The 2021 Elections

Home Minister Amit Shah’s meeting with the Cooch Behar Royal family underlines the influence of the divided community.