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The turning point came in February 1997, when more than 30,000-man-days of labour were volunteered by the community, and an experimental stretch of 1.7 kilometers was protected from erosion using local wisdom and resources. The following year, this protected stretch of the island survived the floods, raising hopes and sending ripples of triumph through the people.
The central agency, after investigation, had filed chargesheets against 11 Ulfa militants, namely Ulfa C-in-C Paresh Boruah, Phatik Hatimota, Siraj Boruah, Arun Boruah, Mridul Hazarika, Amrit Dutta, Babu Saikia, Phani Neog, Kania Hazarika, Pradip Boruah and Anjan Boruah. Among them Siraj, Arun, Mridul, Amrit and Babu were killed in encounter and Phani and Kania are now in jail.
The film also focuses on the futility of violence and is inspired by the life of activist Sanjoy Ghose, who was killed by Ulfa in 1997 in Majuli.
My nephew Sanjoy Ghose, a highly committed social activist, was killed by ULFA in 1997. I was then working with Hindustan Times and when he told me about how ULFA had threatened him if he did not back off from his work in Majuli Island and leave Assam, I decided to come for the meeting where the people of Majuli and the local leaders were to come out in a show of support for him. It was a tense meeting and despite efforts to break the meeting there was a solid show of support from the community he was working for. I wrote about this meeting and the threat to NGOs working in the North East in the hope that ULFA would be aware that the media was watching it. The story was front page anchor in Hindustan Times, Delhi. Buoyed by the support he received, Sanjoy decided to stay on and that was a mistake. The very next month he was abducted and killed.
A website containing information about Sanjoy Ghose, the team leader of Association of Voluntary Agencies in Rural Development NE, who was killed by the activists of ULFA 15 years ago while working in Majuli, was launched today on the 15th Smriti Divas of the slain social activist at Kamalabari, Majuli.
{{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)With the aim of recognising the work of writers who have shown the zeal to go beyond the usual and highlight invisible development issues of the women living in the rural borderlands, Charkha Development Communication Network, a Delhi-based nonprofit organization, has announced the Sanjoy Ghose Rural Reporting Awards (Ladakh) 2015. A total of four awards of Rs 20,000 each will be given to well-researched and sharply-focused unpublished writings that are expected to highlight little-known strengths and travails of the women of this remote but significant part of India with a view to bringing them into the mainstream development fold. The Awards, inspired by Charkha's founder, Sanjoy Ghose who worked towards the social and economic inclusion of rural marginalised communities through the creative use of media, offer an opportunity for writers to delve into the challenges faced by the women of rural disadvantaged communities and reflect the status of development as perceived by these women.
But her worst blow had come 10 years earlier in 1997, when son Sanjoy Ghose, a social worker who started Bikaner's URMUL Trust, was abducted and killed by ULFA militants in Majuli, Assam. His body was never found. Ghose's husband, who never recovered from the tragedy, passed away last year.
Hardcore ULFA leader Amrit Dutta, carrying a reward of Rs 3 lakh on his head for the kidnap and killing of NGO activist Sanjoy Ghosh, was killed in an encounter with the police and CRPF at Majuli in Assam on Saturday. Police sources said the ULFA leader was killed in the encounter at Katonihati Jurbil under the Jengraimukh police station in the world's largest river island at around 7 pm.A joint team of the police and CRPF received a tip-off that Dutta and two other militants had taken shelter in a house in the area. The police surrounded it and asked the militants to surrender. The militants opened fire on the security personnel who retaliated, killing Dutta. The other two managed to escape.Ghosh, who headed the NGO AVARD-NE, was kidnapped by ULFA in July 1997 from Bongaon area of Majuli and was subsequently killed, though his body was never recovered. According to intelligence reports, Dutta was based in Majuli and was involved in extortion and recruitment for the outfit
Hatimota was among 11 ULFA militants named in a CBI chargesheet filed before the special court here on June 16, 1999.Ghose, secretary of well-known NGO called AVARD-NE, was working on a rural development project in Majuli island for a couple of years when he apparently invited the wrath of a militant-contractor nexus that was allegedly involved in siphoning off funds meant for developmental works in the river island.
"The Audience Choice Award for 2014 goes to 'As River Flows'. It was beautifully done", North Carolina International South Asian Film Festival director Gauri Singh informed the film's director Bidyut Kotoky.
The film also focuses on the futility of violence and is inspired by the life of activist Sanjoy Ghose, who was killed by Ulfa in 1997 in Majuli.
Bidyut Kotoky's Ekhon Nedekha Nodir Xhipare bagged two awards for the Best Script and Best Actor at the second edition of the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival...The film stars Bollywood actor Sanjay Suriin the lead role, who won in the Best Actor Award for his portrayal of a journalist who comes to insurgency-hit Assam in search of his friend, a social activist, who goes missing under mysterious conditions. The film is loosely based on the mysterious disappearance of Sanjay Ghose, a social activist, now presumed dead.
The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) will host 'Joy Day' on Thursday to commemorate the birth anniversary of its celebrated alumnus late Sanjoy Ghose.Ghose, a prominent rural development activist whose pioneering contributions to the development and community health are still remembered, was murdered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in July 1997. Students organize a blood donation drive in association with the Indian Red Cross Society between 3.30 pm and 7.30 pm. In the evening, a session - Remembering Joy - will be held at the IRMA auditorium between 9 pm and 10.30 pm.Ghose's wife Sumita Ghose, managing director of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation and a prominent alumni of IRMA R S Sodhi and Ghose's colleague at URMUL Rural Health, Research and Development Trust at Bikaner Arvind Ojha will be amongst the speakers.
The central agency, after investigation, had filed chargesheets against 11 Ulfa militants, namely Ulfa C-in-C Paresh Boruah, Phatik Hatimota, Siraj Boruah, Arun Boruah, Mridul Hazarika, Amrit Dutta, Babu Saikia, Phani Neog, Kania Hazarika, Pradip Boruah and Anjan Boruah. Among them Siraj, Arun, Mridul, Amrit and Babu were killed in encounter and Phani and Kania are now in jail.
He speaks passionately about Charkha's activities, and about his son, even as his tea gets cold. It isn't an easy conversation. The pain of talking about Sanjoy in the past tense, and the persistent guilt that he could not stop him from going to the North-East are palpable. Charkha's website describes Ghose trying to dissuade his son from visiting Assam only for Sanjoy to ask: "Then, whose son will you send?".
SANJOY GHOSE; MSc student 1984–5. Aged 39.
The group mobilised people to build embankments: local people contributed 30,000 person-days of labour to protect an experimental stretch of 1.7 km of the island's banks. In doing so, they displeased a powerful contractor lobby that provided patronage to ulfa .When posters came up asking avard-ne to leave Assam, many locals participated in a public meeting in solidarity with the constructive work being done. This was on June 1, 1997. The group had already engaged in flood relief and malaria prevention, design and production of weaving and bamboo crafts; it had also set up village libraries. The police offered him protection but Sanjoy refused, saying people were his protection. Soon after, he was abducted. Sanjoy vanished.
Sanjoy Ghose was a dogged catalyst of change. And he paid the ultimate price for it
Ghose, who was brought up in Mumbai and later settled in Delhi, was related to several among the Bengali who's who. Former Doordarshan chief Bhaskar Ghose was an uncle, while former Supreme Court judge Ruma Pal and diplomat Arundhati Ghose were his aunts.
Hatimota is among 11 Ulfa militants, including the outfit's commander-in-chief Paresh Barua, who were convicted in the Sanjoy Ghose abduction and killing case. The CBI, which probed the killing of the social worker in 1997, had filed chargesheets against 11 cadres of the outfit.
Amrit Dutta, one of the accused in the kidnapping and murder of social activist Sanjoy Ghose, was killed in a joint operation by police and CRPF in Majuli this evening. orhat police confirmed that Dutta was killed in the encounter at Jorabeel Katoniati, a remote village under Garmur police station in Majuli. Details are awaited, they said.
Two days later, its chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, publicly apologized at Majuli for the killing of the social worker, Sanjoy Ghose, in 1997. While an apology is the key to healing wounds and injustices, what distinguishes the Ulfa's apologies from those of other leaders is the unavoidable question mark that looms over the genuineness of the gesture...This is precisely what Sanjoy Ghose's widow, Sumita, once a student of conflict transformation, said when contacted: "Only the Almighty has the power to forgive. I am just a human being and I want justice to be done".
The Sanjoy Ghose Memorial Trust Society will launch an audio-video project on school documentation in Majuli on Ghose's 15th memorial day on 4 July, in a bid to carry on the social worker's legacy.
The Sanjoy Ghose Memorial Trust Society will launch an audio-video project on school documentation in Majuli on Ghose's 15th memorial day on 4 July, in a bid to carry on the social worker's legacy. CCTV cameras will be installed at educational institutions in the island and subsequently data would be collected which, the Society feels, will help to improve the education scenario in the island. "We are getting support from the satradhikars and social workers in Majuli to carry on with the project. We are also in touch with the government", the secretary of the Society, Kishori Mohan Paul, told this correspondent today. Paul said the data would include the methods of teaching by teachers, the student-teacher relationship and the discipline maintained in institutions. There are nearly 800 education institutions in Majuli, of which seven are colleges.
Advocate Rintu Goswami stated that the book Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries and writings of Sanjoy Ghose explicitly depict the kind of corruption he was fighting against on the river island of Majuli before Ulfa killed him.
He talked about Sanjoy Ghose's murder affecting ULFA's international reputation. Baruah told me there was no instruction to kill Sanjoy Ghosh. He was picked up on suspicion of being close to the Indian intelligence. He said the ULFA leaders were at Geneva when the controversy erupted in 1997. Their plan was to drum up international support through meetings with diplomats from 10 countries. But Arundhati Ghosh, Sanjoy's aunt and a Foreign Service official, campaigned against the ULFA. She was successful and all ULFA top functionaries had to duck for cover and leave Europe.
Ghose, who was brought up in Mumbai and later settled in Delhi, was related to several among the Bengali who's who. Former Doordarshan chief Bhaskar Ghose was an uncle, while former Supreme Court judge Ruma Pal and diplomat Arundhati Ghose were his aunts.
SANJOY GHOSE; MSc student 1984–5. Aged 39.
The turning point came in February 1997, when more than 30,000-man-days of labour were volunteered by the community, and an experimental stretch of 1.7 kilometers was protected from erosion using local wisdom and resources. The following year, this protected stretch of the island survived the floods, raising hopes and sending ripples of triumph through the people.
The group mobilised people to build embankments: local people contributed 30,000 person-days of labour to protect an experimental stretch of 1.7 km of the island's banks. In doing so, they displeased a powerful contractor lobby that provided patronage to ulfa .When posters came up asking avard-ne to leave Assam, many locals participated in a public meeting in solidarity with the constructive work being done. This was on June 1, 1997. The group had already engaged in flood relief and malaria prevention, design and production of weaving and bamboo crafts; it had also set up village libraries. The police offered him protection but Sanjoy refused, saying people were his protection. Soon after, he was abducted. Sanjoy vanished.
Hatimota is among 11 Ulfa militants, including the outfit's commander-in-chief Paresh Barua, who were convicted in the Sanjoy Ghose abduction and killing case. The CBI, which probed the killing of the social worker in 1997, had filed chargesheets against 11 cadres of the outfit.
Amrit Dutta, one of the accused in the kidnapping and murder of social activist Sanjoy Ghose, was killed in a joint operation by police and CRPF in Majuli this evening. orhat police confirmed that Dutta was killed in the encounter at Jorabeel Katoniati, a remote village under Garmur police station in Majuli. Details are awaited, they said.
Two days later, its chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, publicly apologized at Majuli for the killing of the social worker, Sanjoy Ghose, in 1997. While an apology is the key to healing wounds and injustices, what distinguishes the Ulfa's apologies from those of other leaders is the unavoidable question mark that looms over the genuineness of the gesture...This is precisely what Sanjoy Ghose's widow, Sumita, once a student of conflict transformation, said when contacted: "Only the Almighty has the power to forgive. I am just a human being and I want justice to be done".
The Sanjoy Ghose Memorial Trust Society will launch an audio-video project on school documentation in Majuli on Ghose's 15th memorial day on 4 July, in a bid to carry on the social worker's legacy.
The Sanjoy Ghose Memorial Trust Society will launch an audio-video project on school documentation in Majuli on Ghose's 15th memorial day on 4 July, in a bid to carry on the social worker's legacy. CCTV cameras will be installed at educational institutions in the island and subsequently data would be collected which, the Society feels, will help to improve the education scenario in the island. "We are getting support from the satradhikars and social workers in Majuli to carry on with the project. We are also in touch with the government", the secretary of the Society, Kishori Mohan Paul, told this correspondent today. Paul said the data would include the methods of teaching by teachers, the student-teacher relationship and the discipline maintained in institutions. There are nearly 800 education institutions in Majuli, of which seven are colleges.
Advocate Rintu Goswami stated that the book Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries and writings of Sanjoy Ghose explicitly depict the kind of corruption he was fighting against on the river island of Majuli before Ulfa killed him.
Sanjoy Ghose was a dogged catalyst of change. And he paid the ultimate price for it