The Sabha executive committee which met at Nazira took the decision today to nominate Dr Dutta. Dr Dutta will preside over the next Sabha session to be held in Lakhimpur early next February.

The people of Majuli are back to their ownselves - indomitable, gleeful, spiritual souls. That a severe flood wrought devastation to their property worth crores of rupees a few months back, is not writ in their faces, there is no sign of it. A festive mood rather is making the people spirited here. The people of the world’s largest river island are now hell-bent on making the Raas festival and the Majuli Festival successful, both of which got underway today.

Goswami, who was also one of the candidates for the post this year, told in front of a gathering in Barpeta that the politics in the Assam Sahitya Sabha has extended to the core of the literary organisation. 'I feel very bad when they termed me as 'outsider' for the post of the Sabha's President. Dr Hiren Gohain has even called me a 'Bangladeshi Author'! If people like them want the post, then its all right. They are respectable people. But I don't seem to understand why I have been dub as outsider.'

Several organisations of late have been demanding and even resorting to violence calling for the recruitment of 'indigenous' persons for different posts in the state government and central government departments including Railways, Doordarshan Kendra etc.

But then to put them in the controlling seat of even things about which they hardly know the basics is something difficult to appreciate. If one is to have a Silicon Valley in Assam, one has to be able to bring in the Silicon Valley culture. The ecology of technology is something that Sam Petroda talked about with reference to a meeting of European leaders who were interested in developing a Silicon Valley in Europe. In Assam too, one would have to be able to change the age-old culture in certain aspects of life if such ecology of technology is to be developed.