This is a digital era. Everybody likes to be digital directly or indirectly. India is trying its best to become “Digital India”. Recently, St. Xavier’s Junior College, Tezpur has become the part of the digital world by having its website. The purpose is to have an easy accessible to the college.
There is a book, titled as “Building a Story Brand” by Donald Miller.
The summary of the book goes like this: “There is a character, who faces a problem and searches for meaning in life. He meets a guide who proposes his plans and helps him to act accordingly. Finally, with the help of the guide, the person is able to tackle difficulties and achieve his goal successfully.
Here, characters are students. Guides are our college management and staff. Finally with the help of guides students become heroes and heroines. Our curricula are also student-centered. Facilities such as Library, Coaching classes before the final exam, Monthly career guidance, Sports and Games, Canteen, Hostel for boys and Spoken English classes especially for those who come from Assamese medium are available for students. In short, the college provides a conducive atmosphere for “Study Culture” leading to a better performance personally and academically as well.
Hello Friends!
We read many books, no doubt. But readings are of various types to suit the variety of tastes and temperaments. They may be good, bad or indifferent. For purposeful reading, it is necessary to choose the right type of books especially in younger days it is necessary to be acquainted with ennobling thoughts. In the prevalent atmosphere of increasing materialism, high profile living and cynical disbelief in nobler life, it is not easy to know of the higher values. So it is noble readings primarily that can transmit the higher ideas to young boys and girls at their impressionable age, for books are free from the defects of the conveying medium. Reading is said to either divert and entertain, inform and instruct, or inspire and elevate. It is necessary, therefore, to choose the right type of books. Let us then delve into the vast ocean of the digital world. Best wishes!
Fr Ajay P Minj SJ
Background and Beginning
HISTORY
When the Kohima Jesuits were keen on beginning work in Assam, in one of the surveys of 1997, it was revealed that the poorest people in Assam were the adivasis originally of Chhotanagpur. Lack of personnel led the Kohima Jesuits to invite the Jesuits of Ranchi Province to minister to the needs of this community. The Ranchi Jesuits entered Assam in 1998, and, after nine years of committed service in collaboration with the Jesuits of Kohima, there are now 5 Parishes, 13 Schools, 1 Junior College, 1 Degree College and 1 Social Centre. The Ranchi Province now administers the New Assam Mission comprising over 60 lakhs of migrated adivasis who mainly work as labourers in Assam’s tea gardens.
Assam’s tea gardens are apparently treasures that India should be proud of since 20% of the world’s tea is produced here. By 1831, the white sahibs, the British realized that Indian tea was a gold mine lying untapped. The catch, however, was that the tea would best grow in the tropical forests of Assam that was home to wild animals and poisonous reptiles besides being susceptible to diseases like malaria, gastroenteritis and the like. Unable to get local people to work in clearing the forests for the plantations, the adivasis of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh became scapegoats who, due to famine and poverty, were employed to work for a pittance. Thus, from 1831 onwards till date, generations of adivasis have been toiling in the tea gardens as faceless, nameless people faraway from home and robbed of anything that can be called ‘identity’.
