Tryst with the pen

             This is in response to the issue of tribal alienation and religious conversion at the riverine island   Majuli in particular and Assam in general which has currently hogged the limelight.. A sharp socio-historical survey with critical acumen points   out that   Shankari culture played a pivotal role   in the consolidation of Assamese identity by bringing various ethnic communities and tribes into its mainfold. It paved the way for the aryanisation of the tribes   whose taproot was anarya.Later after the Shankardev,responsibility of   propagating and involving the larger community was   entrusted   upon satras and satradhikars which did not figure sincerely in their agenda. To put it in a nut-shell , taking advantage of the lacunae of existing satriya tradition,mishing tribes were lured to convert themselves to christianity.For the fair suvival of any culture   in the face...