Book: Chittagong Hill Tracts The Secret History of its award to Pakistan in 1947

I have the pleasure to inform about my latest book, "Chittagong Hill Tracts: The Secret History of its Award to Pakistan in 1947". This book can be purchased from this link https://notionpress.com/read/chittagong-hill-tracts

PRICE: Rs 499/-

To get flat 30% discount, use this code: YOYOPARI

(This offer is valid for first 10 copies only). About the book: Why was the tribal district of Chittagong Hill Tracts with over 97% non-Muslim population awarded to East Pakistan during the partition of India despite the three Buddhist Rajas and people desiring to join India? This book is an investigation into this question. It unearths, for the first time, the circumstances under which the Chittagong Hill Tracts was unjustly awarded to East Pakistan and the actors who were involved in that decision. Was the Chittagong Hill Tracts victim of a British conspiracy? Were the Indian leaders involved in it?

Publisher: Notion Press
Date of publication: December 2021
Pages: 296

My presentation on problems and demands of ADCs of Mizoram

On 12 December 2021, I participated as a speaker in a webinar organised by the National Alliance of People's Movement (NAPM) on "Governance, Resource Rights & Ethnicity in Sixth Schedule Areas of N-E" and on this episode Mizoram state was discussed. In case you have missed it, you can watch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1XY_LMqk0&t=6749s

My speech can be watched from 1:23:00 onwards

My letter to the editor of Jagaran Tripura

 

To

The Editor, www.jagarantripura.com

jagarantripura@gmail.com

 

Subject: Complaint against disrespecting a martyred soldier of the Assam Rifles by branding him as a “militant killed” in an encounter with the security forces in Arunachal Pradesh in your article dated 22 May 2021

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

With reference to the subject mentioned above, I am writing to strongly object against your news portal’s senseless branding of a martyred jawan of the Assam Rifles Mr Avatar Chakma as a “militant” killed in an encounter with the Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh on 22 May 2021.

 

Your article titled “অরুণাচলের চাংলাং জেলায় আসাম রাইফেলস-এনএসসিএনের গোলাগুলি, হত এক জঙ্গি, আহত দুই জওয়ান” is totally incorrect and misleading as the martyred person who is in fact a solider of the Assam Rifles who laid down his life for the motherland was branded as a “militant” by your news paper/portal. The said news article is available at

https://jagarantripura.com/2021/05/22/assam-rifles-nscn-shelling-in-arunachal-pradeshs-changlang-district-kills-one-militant-injures-two-soldiers/?fbclid=IwAR3kCGakPpH9Tm3sOo6xtUMK-eTd4RGBZaf7JsctmStpLRpVN7DpM66NpCY

 

A copy of the said news article is also attached for your easy reference.

 

Your misleading article branding an Indian Army soldier as a militant has left a deep wound in the hearts of the family members of the martyred soldier, his community and every Indian.

 

This is total breach of journalistic ethics and an offence against public taste. I therefore urge you to rectify the mistake immediately and publish an APOLOGY in the front page with a copy to the undersigned, within 24 hours, failing which I shall be constrained to complaint against you and your news portal before the Press Council of India, the Assam Rifles and such other appropriate authorities to restore the honour of an Indian soldier who sacrificed his life for the nation.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

Paritosh Chakma

Social activist

Email: pchakma@gmail.com

My letter to the Editor of Tripura Jagaran