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By Peter Pegu

( Peter Pegu’s responsorial comments )

Let the debate on ‘Miri, Misi, Mishing, Missing and Tani’ continue for sometime more. More people come to the debate the better. I personally request everyone to keep your temperament cool; don’t be so much one-sidedly aggressive. Let us collect more unbiased opinions from many others and examine the merit of their views.



In the meanwhile,...
Tags: Mising, Miri, Assam
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By Peter Pegu

Miri
: We come across certain blogs posted by Manoranjan Pegu, Uttam Pegu, Bhaskar Gupit and others, where they have alleged that the nomenclature ‘Miri’ is usually taken as a derogatory term by majority people for our racial identity; which is in reality not true. One may perceive the term from different prospective with fresh mindset through a clean reflective lens.



Pre-historic Mis...
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By Mr. Bhaskar Pegu

One important thing I forgot to write in my preceding blog about a deplorable scene I saw in Maatmara while visiting the place in Last June,2009 was about women wage earners.I saw an unprecendented scene at Maatmara that host of Mising women were engaged as daily wage earners in Matmara in construction of metallic road.The women folks were tucked with dumér in their heads and ...
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There was a breaking news about Mising converting to Christianity in Majuli, Assam around April 2008. The news had died down by now.

I had been thinking, is it the first conversion we Misings have completed? How about our original belief or religion and have we abandoned them for the new belief? Why this hue and cry of conversion only to Christianity ? Here are my thinking about religious conversi...
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The plight of Mising spelling
Posted August 6, 2009 by uttampegu

Recently I got hold of a book ( actually a dictionary), "The Pronouncing Mishing - English - Dictionary" Written by Jitmal Doley, APS, MSC. in Agriculture. While I felt very proud to have a look at Mising dictionary, I was equally dismayed at the use of wrong spelling of Mising as "Mishing"

Mr. Jitmal Doley needs all the accolade for coming out with a milestone in development of Mising language

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