Editorial
US CENSUS 2010 – It is in our hand!!
Every individual human being has right to be reckoned in their respective nation. It means not only to affix one more integer in the intact populace of the state but also it conveys delight and grandeur in the populace to articulate ‘This nation is mine and I am for this”. People can divulge their nationality and their nation of nativity. Census can germinate jingoism, the sentiment of unison, co-operation and brotherhood amid the citizens. It barrens racial, communal and religious bigotry. In elegant structure it can lash all human being of the state in one filament of pious drape.
Second week of March, 2010, when emission of lights were having contest to cuddle with the snow capped peak of the horizon, people of USA were staggering towards the mail-box to accumulate mails, every day. It had become their daily schedule. In the bulk of dispatches in a sunup, Bhutanese community people for the first time adage a large white sachet with black print outside – 2010 Census. Most of the English-know-how Bhutanese unwrapped and discerned that they ought to fill up couple of every effortless queries. It is also acknowledged that they have concluded with passion and pride as they could not be the constituent of the state level census for almost eighteen years. They did not necessitate to retort “This and That, Those and These”. How effortlessly and democratically they could take part in the census in the United States of America? People of Bhutanese community were found to feel blissful to complete simple queries. With tremendous glee for being counted in census, some people expressed the stance that “I wanted to rise to the summit of Mount Everest and bawl – I did my census! Let my voice be reached far and wide and open those deaf ear and knowingly closed eyes, and say if you haven’t filled the form, hurry and get done!”
Editors