Guwahati, Dec. 14 -- With the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 getting its nod from the President of India, the CAB is no longer a Bill and the implementation of the same will begin soon. History has been deliberately repeated and the Assamese society has been once again brought to a position where the only thing at stake is 'survival', survival of the language, survival of the culture and survival of its very identity itself.
Assam has experienced its fair share of existential struggle right from the colonial times. The Cabinet Mission in 1946 conspired to make Assam a part of a predominantly Muslim majority area in East India. Had the Cabinet Mission succeeded, the story of Assam would have been entirely different today. It was because...