Letters to the EDITOR: Lachit Barphukan Police Academy

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Lachit Barphukan Police Academy

The recent inauguration of the revamped Lachit Barphukan Police Academy at Dergaon by Union Home Minister Amit Shah is indeed a remarkable achievement of the state government, as for the first time in four hundred years since the birth of the great legendary Ahom general Lachit Barphukan, the Assam government established a full-fledged institution dedicated to his legacy. The editorial 'Police and training' published in your esteemed daily on March 17 has rightly pointed out that it was the Assam Police, whose glorious history of police training has completed seventy-seven years, that had taken part in the Second World War and was probably the only effective police force in the country. It was well-known as the Assam Rifles throughout the country to this day, under the then-administrative control of the Assam Police. The direct participation of the Assam Rifles in the war had definitely enriched the history and heritage of the Assam Police. Today, Assam Police has a tremendous positive public image. It has been possible for over several decades of hard work and experience. The Assam Police's significant contribution, along with the Army's, in tackling and pushing out the insurgency from the ground speaks volumes about its growing responsibility of assuring the citizens that they are safe because of an efficient and dedicated police force, for which the crime graph is on the fall in the state and the conviction rate is going upward from five percent to thirty-two percent. Our state police must undergo intensive training and continued in-service training in the newly established police academy, which is the most essential need to transform them into the most upgraded and updated smart police force, especially in a state that is located at the heart of a strategic region. With the crime rate falling now, the state police force can afford to give more time for public services to prove themselves as a public-friendly police force of the state in the near future.

Iqbal Saikia,

Guwahati.

Aurangzeb Fan Club

We all understand that there should be a limit to everything. This theory is applicable in the case of appeasement policy too, a policy that of late has become the lifeline of Congress, the Samajwadi Party, TMC, and DMK even at the cost of the nation’s security and integrity.

 The latest budget placed on the floor of the Karnataka assembly by the ruling Congress has crossed all limits of appeasement alarmingly and shamelessly. The appeasement policy has given birth to the Aurangzeb Fan Club and is trying to portray Tipu Sultan as a secular king of Karnataka, thus distorting the entire history. Now, it is up to the electors of Karnataka to rise to the occasion, as a Halal budget cannot be accepted at any cost. The whole nation is watching you.

Lanu Dutt Chowdhury,

Guwahati.

Medicine called happiness

Happiness encompasses a wide gamut of physical and mental emotions. Emotion is a central theme to happiness because many philosophers have simultaneously compared 'emotion,' 'happiness,' and 'experience.'. Life indeed has a 'quality' generally described as QOL (quality of life). A good or balanced QOL will most of the time lead to a state of intense happiness and joy.  No medicine can make a person happy, and there is no panacea for happiness.  No medicine can cure what happiness cannot.  Someone has said that happiness is the interval between two unhappy periods.  A contented individual is more often than not ‘happy,’ and desiring too much happiness may spoil the broth. Quite often, people fail to count their happiness and dwell on unhappiness, forgetting the fact that only a past unhappiness will make the present sound real. It is, therefore, understood that what is ‘happiness’ for one individual may not be so for the other. What many unhappy people do is brood over the past and forget that a new future awaits them. The responsibility of being happy is thrust on the individual and no one else.  Dwelling deep on what has already taken place can destroy a happy mind. People should be able to see things as they are, not as they hope or expect them to be, because a frantic search for happiness can be the main source of unhappiness.  Perhaps, the best definition of happiness is "not getting what you want but wanting what you get."

Dr. Ganapathi Bhat

(gbhat13@gmail.com)