Voluntary Organizations and Militancy: A Personal Account
Sanjoy Ghose was writing this article just before he was abducted on 4th July, 1997
In April 1996, a group of seven development workers moved to Jorhat, in Assam. Three of us had worked together in Urmul, a voluntary organization in western Rajasthan; of the other four, one from Arunachal Pradesh, another from Nagaland, a third although originally from Himachal Pradesh, had been living and working in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh for the last two years; and the fourth was an Indian of Chinese origin from Bangalore, with a background of social work. Before the move all of us had spent time in doing workshops for development workers and traveled in all the North Eastern states; Sumita was the link person for the eastern and north eastern region for the Beijing conference, and her work had brought her here often; and Sunil as a doctor with Army in Arunachal, and traveled extensively there.