Maoists and peace
This letter has reference to a news item published in your esteemed daily, dated May 2, where a Congress advisor of the Telangana government named Kashava Rao urges the central government to sit for talks with the Maoist leaders for peace. After being out of power at the centre, it has become routine for Congress to play politics at every central government scheme. Maoist violence in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Odisha, in the meantime, has shed enough blood in spite of the centre’s efforts to diffuse the problem peacefully. The same Maoist insurgency in West Bengal, also known as the Naxal movement, crippled West Bengal some time ago as the law-and-order situation was thrown to the wind. Diffusing the Maoist problem with an iron hand was the only option left for the union government.
For Rao’s information, the Maoists never believe in a peaceful solution. According to the founder of the Maoist movement, Mao Zedong, who quoted during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on August 7,1927, that ‘Peace comes through the barrel of a gun’.
Dr. Ashim Chowdhury,
Guwahati.
Be creative, not rote learner
To achieve success in life, creative thinking is essential. Just memorisation is not enough, as it only involves repeating what already exists. In contrast, creative individuals forge new paths and drive innovation. In today’s fast-paced world, success and progress belong to those who think differently, solve problems, and create something new. This is the age of creativity and innovation—every invention we rely on was born from a creative mind. Therefore, we should allow our minds to think freely and explore new ideas to create something original.
Kamrul Hussain
Karimganj, Assam
Assam-Japan partnership
The news article 'Committed to helping Assam to develop to its full potential: Japan Speaker Fukushiro' published in your esteemed daily on May 5 has really delighted the esteemed readers. During the visit of the Japanese delegation, the speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, Nukaga Fukushiro, said both Japan and India are established on similar democratic principles, and, therefore, both nations can work together for mutual development and progress. It may be mentioned here that the visit, which takes place in the backdrop of Advantage Assam 2.0, will give a new momentum to Assam's strategic partnership with Japan through collaborative initiatives to be taken up in infrastructure, education, economy and political fields. Needless to say, of late, the India-Japan relationship has grown in size and magnitude under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba. The relationship has attained both purpose and progress. Building robust economic ties in the Indo-Pacific region and India's Northeast partnership in infrastructure creation must gain quality and quantum. Therefore, the burgeoning ties which the land of the rising sun holds have immense importance to India's Act East Policy, as it has found a lot of traction with Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific policy (FOIP). Assam and other Northeast states, therefore, need to emerge as a prime mover of cooperation between the two Asian giants. Now, one expects that since Assam occupies a strategic and the most important place in the Northeast, it should play a decisive role in the success of AEP and FOIP. Let us hope that this momentum showing immense readiness to take the mutual partnership to a new level will keep going through the regular true spirit of dialogues between Japan and Assam, which can definitely strengthen the effort in bolstering the partnership while becoming a catalyst to connect South Asia with Southeast Asia.
Iqbal Saikia,
Guwahati.