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1. This
group is a cultural social group of mainly working professional and it
is not a political or religious group or any NGO and does not subscribe
to views of any such affiliations.
2.
The main aim
is to promote Bhojpuri on net and bring Bhojpuri People closer.
3.
The group
provides opportunity to share your experiences, your concerns, your
social, political and personal views whatever with others. You can discuss and
solve problems focusing on social and economic conditions of Bhojpuri
Speaking People and its region. As the membership grows we can create a
mass opinion of this group for any specific project or help for the
community purpose.
4.
The group will
help remove the Communication vacuum created by space and time and act
as a bridge among different people to develop among them a sense of
community feeling.
5. The group
has decided to form different 'Samiti' or Committee
to achieve certain goal and to direct the willing members to do some
meaningful contributions towards Bhojpuri. You may opt to join this
group. (New)
Why
Bhojpuri Group is created?
Common Cultural Heritage:
This Group is created to have a
common platform for the People who are associated directly or
indirectly with Bhojpuri (which is spoken on all the six continents).
The Bhojpuri people share a common custom, social and cultural bond. In
spite of their distant relocation their culture, rituals and customs are
intact and are almost same where they are in UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, MP
etc. in India or anywhere else in different part of the world.
The group
provides opportunity to share our experiences, our concerns, our
social, political and personal views whatever with others.
By doing so, This group intends to make our people aware of
the fact and figures about the language, its people and its region. It
tries to imbibe into the mind and into the sub-conscious of the Bhojpuri
People that they are part of a great Global Community who are as
talented as versatile, as intellectual or as progressive as very few
community of the world are. And Still it is not recognised or
given due importance by any one. A sort of communication
vacuum is felt among Bhojpuri People. This group will help remove the
gap and act as a bridge among different people and will develop
among them a sense of community feeling.
Social and
Economical Bond:
One need
not feel ashamed of today's faceless Politicians of our region or
the poor people of Bhojpuri region. The poor people of Bhojpuri region have
been forced to leave the land in the absence of employment opportunities
in and around this region. The lack of infrastructures for vocational
training force them to resort to work as Construction workers in south
and west India, as farm workers in Punjab and Haryana, as Coolies in all
most all the cities of North India, as Rickshaw Pullers in Kolkata and
Delhi, as Taxi Drivers in Mumbai (almost 90% from UP) and Kolkata
(almost 95% from Bihar), as Pan-walas and Chai-walas every where. These
people are sneered at and made butt of jokes. Their poverty is a
laughing stock for others. Even the rich and enlightened our
own people do not comfort these people even by few words of sympathy and
take evasive stand.
Bhojpuri Group aspire to remove
this feelings of non-attachment among Bhojpuri and develop a community
feeling among them. Whenever a you see a poor share his agony and
comfort him by saying few encouraging word.
One must look at the fact that our such
poor people have become the ruler of the land where their
ancestors have settled as indentured farm workers. History is witness.
Just see Mauritius, Guyana, Fiji, Surinam & Trinidad. Tomorrow you
will find some Bhojpuri people as CM of Punjab or Delhi.
Contemporary
Approach a Modern Need:
To march with other Indian Community on the net such as Punjabi,
Tamil, Marathi, Bengali etc. So much and so many are there on the
net for these people and 'Humani khatir kuchhu naikhe !! kehu
naikhe!!'. I
strongly felt the need for this group and created this group with 5
people.
Gradually many people started joining this
group. On the average 2 persons are joining this group every week.
Atithi Pustika
- The Guest Book of Bhojpuri Sansar :
Just one morning a mail from Asgar Ali of Guyana was received by BK
Pandey, Moderator of the Bhojpuri Group. First he thought
it is a virus. As it was from xx.juno.com. But Asgar had visited
his Bhojpuri web site and was searching his roots in India. And he created a Atithi-Pustika
for Bhojpuri People to make a meeting place for their friends and
relatives. Again Esther Lyons wrote to him to find the
where-abouts (phone no) Latona, her birth place in Bihar, she is
Anglo-Indian of Bhojpuri Speaking Mother and American father.
Read her entry and others at Atithi-Pustika and enter your
name also there.
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