During our school days, most of us had a habit of dividing our curriculum into two segments – first were the easy-peasy subjects and the other were the tougher ones that had the potential to drain all our energy. In the latter category, History seemed to top the list and the credit goes to all the landmark achievements by our ancestors that we are learning about now or should we say, mugging up for our exams. If there is anything other than love that has the potential to give us sleepless nights, it has to be History. But, how good are you with the Indian history? Do you know about Mughals? Have you read about the Mauryan Dynasty? Well, if you nodded a yes, that’s great. But, do you know about the history of Assam or about the North-East? Have you ever read about the Ahom Dynasty who ruled Assam for 600 years and defeated the Mughals 17 times, in our school textbooks? This question was raised by 12-year-old Aaira Goswami, a student from Assam who is currently studying in a school in Jaipur.

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12 year old AAIRA GOSWAMI's Appeal to The Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji. pic.twitter.com/ShtTh2vMuO — Shilpi bhuyan (@BhuyanShilpi) 12 February 2017

Aaira, who loves History, raised a very valid point in this open letter, addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about why the history of Assam or the North-East is not included in school textbooks. Now that we think of it, we don’t really have any idea about the Seven Sisters and the sad part is that schools and the education board never cared either. Check out this video where Aaira speaks about the letter on camera, urging PM Modi to look into this so that our present generation of students can learn about the glorious history of the North-East and Assam.

Well, call it love for her state or her wisdom and being wise beyond her years, Aaira has raised a very important point that shouldn’t go unnoticed and we hope that PM Modi addresses this issue at the earliest.

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