জীৱনত পূৰ্ণতা- প্ৰাপ্তিৰ হকে সকলো মানুহেই অবিৰতভাৱে সংগ্রাম কৰিবই লাগিব। সমাজ-জীৱনত পূর্ণতা প্রাপ্তি এক স্বপ্ন মাথোন। এই স্বপ্নক বাস্তৱায়িত কৰিবলৈ সময়ে সময়ে একোজন সমাজ-শিক্ষকৰ প্রয়োজন। ভূপেন হাজৰিকাই সেই দায়িত্ব অতি নিষ্ঠা আৰু সততাৰে পালন কৰি গৈছে।
The Outrage Economy feat Cockraoch Protest
Something fascinating happened during the entire "Cockroach Janata Party" controversy.
Not the protest itself. Protests are healthy. They are the pulse of a democracy. As long as I am alive, I will defend anyone's right to peacefully protest, whether I agree with them or not.
What fascinated me was something else.
How social media quietly made outrage a compulsory subject.
If you weren't seen posting about it, if you didn't upload a story, change your display picture or copy the right hashtag, suspicion followed. Silence itself became a political statement.
George Orwell once imagined a world where people feared being watched by the State. But today, our generation voluntarily watches one another.
We scroll through each other's stories like moral attendance registers.
"Why hasn't he posted?" "Why hasn't she condemned it?" "If you are silent, you are also an oppressor!"
Earlier, mass communication told one story to millions. Television decided what mattered. Newspapers decided tomorrow's conversation.
Social media changed that as it is perhaps the only time in human history when every individual has an audience.
The environmentalist found environmentalists.
The movie buff found movie buffs.
The football fan found football fans.
The photographer found photographers.
The algorithm quietly built tiny nations based on our interests. That was the beauty of the internet. We no longer had to be the same.
But somewhere along the way, we stopped celebrating different interests and started demanding identical emotions.
The environmentalist now expects the football fan to feel the same urgency. The political activist expects the travel blogger to pause sunsets until justice is delivered. The cinema enthusiast is expected to become an economist overnight.
If you don't feel what I feel, when I feel it, and express it publicly, then perhaps you are part of the problem.
That is how outrage became a performance. Backed by a trending hashtag which will soon disappear when the next big thing happens in the world.
The fallout was nuance became bad for engagement. And morality acquired a comment section.
None of this means terrible things shouldn't be condemned. They should.
But we have reached a strange point where not posting is often treated as evidence of guilt. As if silence itself has become a crime.
The irony is that most people on social media are not influencers or activists. They are ordinary people. Their accounts are filled with cousins, school friends, wedding photographs and birthday wishes.
Yet they too are expected to perform public morality on demand.
Soon, friendships won't end because of what you believe. They will end because you didn't upload a story within twenty-four hours of a trending morality.......
Today we start a series on the monumental contributions of non-Assamese individuals to Assamese society. Let's begin with the visionary who first printed and published Mahapurukh Srimanta Sankardev's Kirtan Ghoxa: a Marwari businessman from Tezpur named Haribilash Agarwala.
Dear, Hindu organizations who are vandalizing St. Mary's School in Nalbari..
পৰৰ ধৰ্মক নিহিংসিবা কদাচিত ৷
কৰিবা ভূতক দয়া সকৰুণ চিত ॥
হুইবা শান্ত-চিত্ত সৰ্ব্বধৰ্মত বৎসল।
এহি ভাগৱত ধৰ্ম্ম জানা মহাবল ॥
Today, Syed Shadullah is gone.
His guitar and his voice on AIR Dibrugarh made him immortal for generations.
He was one of The Quivers — the band that brought rock to Assam and set the stage on fire through the late 60s and 70s. 1/3