Re: [Assam] DEMOCRACY HARMING INDIA: LYNGDOH

[Barua25]

Title: Re: [Assam] DEMOCRACY HARMING INDIA: LYNGDOH

>Philosophy is a fascinating subject. I don't denigrate it. But right this instance we have little use for it in these discussions. "Jwre >puri haat paalehi" -- time to do something wouldn't you think?   Philosophy, as well as history, are important in the fight in order to know the enemy. Almost hundred years ago, Ambika Giri RaiChoudhury also told the same thing: "Jwre puri haat paalehi, time to do something. Oxom morile amiw morim" . In 79 Assam Gono Andwlon also Assamese said the same thing: "Jwre puri haat paalehi--time to do something. Oxom morile amiw morim" . Today also Sumanta Chaliha and his 'jatiotabadis' are telling the same thing: "Jwre puri haat paalehi-time to do something.Oxom morile amiw morim"    Chandan Mahanta is also telling the same thing: "Jwre puri haat paalehi--time to do something"   But unless you know what is the right thing to do, you will be simply loosing 25 years this way, another 25 years that way.   Communism,  as proposed by the Mahantas,  is definitely not the solution. Hatred of India, as proposed by the Mahnats, is not the solution. Doom for India, as proposed by the Mahantas, is not the solution.   This I learnt from my lessons in philosophy and history.   Quicker you guys realize that the better.   I don't have any intention to loose another 25 years spending in arguments on the wrong debate.   I have better things to do with people who donot hate India, who are against Communism, who are for freedom of the individual, who are against slogans who want to find the solution based on rational analysis.   RB ----- Original Message ----- From: Chan Mahanta To: Barua25 ; assam@assamnet.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] DEMOCRACY HARMING INDIA: LYNGDOH I am not seeking your predictions here Rajen. Regardless of the  prescience of amateur or even professional seers, they are at best idle speculations. Positive change can come only with participation and involvement of those who know better. In that, my question is where do you stand with your contributions to the positive changes, which I gather even if only indirectly, that you too would like to see in Assam? And what would those changes be  that you would like to see? How do you see a process for such changes put in place and moved forward? Philosophy is a fascinating subject. I don't denigrate it. But right this instance we have little use for it in these discussions. "Jwre puri haat paalehi" -- time to do something wouldn't you think? c At 9:51 PM -0600 12/23/05, Barua25 wrote: In my opinion, the reason why there won't be any major change in India, in spite how pessimistic or optimistic one feel about India, is because of the age old characteristics of the Indians. Indians are too imaginative as opposed to being rational like the Chinese. We Indians think too much.   In fact, I could not find a single event, since the Gupta Empire, that we Indians did as a nation in the political scene, as a proactive action other than going by inertia letting things happen as it may come, each doing Karma being in his/her own station, letting the chips fall wherever they will.  Of course there had been side actions of the Ahoms, the Rajputs and many others, but these are foreigners to be absorbed into the black hole of Hinduism where imagination take control of the real world and make the Indian blind to see the real world. Even our struggle for independence was, in my opinion,  a war fought out of inertia.   As one philosopher puts it "In the Indian world there is, so to speak, no object that can be regarded as real, and firmly defined - none that was not at its first apprehension perverted by the imagination to the very opposite of what it presents to an intelligent conscienousness...... Among the Hindoos, on the contrary - instead of Unity - Diversity is the fundamental characteristic." - Hegel.   RB ----- Original Message ----- From: Chan Mahanta To: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] DEMOCRACY HARMING INDIA: LYNGDOH >But before that there is no doubt  India is destined to play a leading role as an advanced country in the not too distant >future. **** I am sure that will please all those who are not in the receiving end of what Lyngdoh rails about and are clamoring for a seat at the table of world's 'powers'. But for the rest it is 'eat cake', isn't it? Unfortunately the eat-cake crowd is growing, not receding. Something tells me it will assert itself sooner than later. And Assam will be in the thick of it if not in the forefront. At 4:23 PM -0500 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chandan   I do not find anything to disagree with you.I can only hope that Lyngdoh's thinking will inspire the coming generation to find a way out of the present morass in our body politic. I do not think it will happen in our lifetime. Politics is ever unpredictable. Gorbachov did something unthinkable to Communism.According to some researchers,  India is bound to disingegrate in course of time. But before that there is no doubt  India is destined to play a leading role as an advanced country in the not too distant future. I do not think Assam is going to be a major player in it.   Regards   Bhuban _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

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