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Why?
Ravindranath does not like them
Sanjoy Hazarika and Jayanta Madhab?
Why do you think they are my
heroes?
Are they philosophers or poets or
mathematicians ?
What your hero ULFA think about non
Assamese guys like Ravindranath doing public works in Assam?
Where guys like Ravindranath fits
in your Assam for Assamese scheme?
Does Ravindranath
considers Assam to be an Indian colony?
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:32
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam Trip-2
Addendum
Oh, another thing. While you are at it, on the subject of asking him what
his motives are, also ask him about your HEROES like Sanjoy Hazarika and
Jayanta Madhav who gave you interviews like visiting royalty and what he
thinks about what they are promoting for Assam.
That would be fun to watch.
At 9:17 PM -0600 1/3/06, Chan Mahanta wrote:
>I can see the connection you are trying to make.
*** *I* am attempting to make a connection
?
Either there is a serious ongoing reading
comprehension problem, or an eruption of unmitigated schutzpah.
>But I donot think these good Indians are treating Assam as their
colony.
*** Good Britishers did not treat the
Indians as colonial vassals either - they treated them like
humans.
>They are doing the selfless work thinking they are doing it for
their own country, their Mother India.
*** That is What RAJEN Barua would like to
connect to. More than likely it is the HUMAN one, not the INDIAN
NATIONALISTIC one. Perhaps Rajen Barua would like to ask Ravindranath,
instead of speculating and ASSIGNING motives to him.
>Even for a moment they donot think that Assam and the North East is
not India.
*** Go ahead and ASK Ravindranath, if you
have the intestinal fortitude to do so, WHY he does what he does. And I am
certain he would TELL you,and your kind, because I can tell he has
what it takes.
cm
At 6:11 PM -0600 1/3/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
>*** There were a lot of very fine
Britishers also use to do social work in India while it was a
colony.
> And a number of them were killed by
Indians.
> Any connection here?
I
can see the connection you are trying to make.
But I donot think these good Indians are treating Assam as their
colony.
They are doing the selfless work thinking they are doing it for
their own country, their Mother India.
Even for a moment they donot think that Assam and the North East
is not India.
Do you?
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan Mahanta
To: Rajen Barua
Cc: assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006
4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam
Trip-2
*** There were a lot of very fine
Britishers also use to do social work in India while it was a
colony.
And a number of them were killed by
Indians.
Any connection here?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rajen
Barua
To: assam@assamnet.org ; Chan Mahanta
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam Trip-2
>Ravindra Nath , son of UP and Bengali parents, studied
Appropriate Technology
>( and something else) at IIT-Delhi. He got involved
with NGO work under the noted social worker (?) Bunker Roy. He
started at the NE at Arunachal and later >moved down to
Akajan/Silapthar. That is all I know of Ravi. Ravi's wife, Sathyasree is
from Guwahati.
Great to know such
good Indians working selflessly working in NE. It looks like he was
also like Sanjay Ghosh doing NGO work in Majuli who was reportedly been
killed by ULFA.
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: assam@assamnet.org
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: [Assam] Assam Trip-2
Dear Netters,
I spoke about the very fine things that the Rural
Volunteer Center ( RVC) is doing at Akajan. Ravindranath and his
wife Sathyasree Goswami, who live at Silapathar and lead their many
efforts are making a measurable difference for the many people whose
lives have been ravaged by repeated floods. Today I hope to tell you a
little more about them and RVC.
Ravindra Nath , son of UP and Bengali parents, studied
Appropriate Technology
( and something else) at IIT-Delhi. He got involved
with NGO work under the noted social worker (?) Bunker Roy. He
started at the NE at Arunachal and later moved down to
Akajan/Silapthar. That is all I know of Ravi. Ravi's wife, Sathyasree
is from Guwahati. The following about herself,is in her own
words:
"I am an Assamese born as the 6th daughter to Mr. P.N.
Goswami and Ms. Biva Goswami of Chenikuthi. educated partly in Cotton
College i have been working in Akajan from 1995 and took a break for
two years to work with drought affected people of Anantapur district
of Andhra Pradesh. Now I volunteer for RVC and I have started a
collective called shakti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
to work on holistic community health and right to health and health
care, where I work full time based in Akajan village."
I did not get to meet Sathyasree as she was with her
ailing mother at Guahati. But I had the privilege of staying overnight
at RVC's guest-house. Ravi and the other volunteers live there as
well. Their little campus was like an 'ashram', with all kinds of
undertakings going on. They even have a satellite dish
with a high-speed internet network, which they acquired
with some wiles, a necessity in today's world but a luxury beyond
imagination in Assam and particularly at a place like
Akajan.
Guile and wiles in addition to a dedicated sense of
service have been essential for RVC's continued existence and success.
What they face everyday is not something for the faint of heart or for
the occasional do-gooder like ourselves.
Ravi recounted a number of anecdotes while he and a couple
of his associates took me around to show some of the many wonderful
things they are doing all over. I was awed by the obstacles they face
and how they make little dents, one at a time, to make a difference.
They have spawned other volunteers like themselves or have joined
hands with others in different ways by sharing their resources and
experiences.
One such effort that I was highly impressed by was a road
building project organized by the Mising students' association--the
name of which eludes me --led by a young Mising, Pegu, whose first
name I forget, who also was a Cotton College Union Secy.--a powerful
position as we well know. He and John - another Mising, trained at
B'lore as an MBA I think, were leading over a thousand young
volunteers who were building a road -- a lifeline for a series of
villages which was washed away, but did not get repaired/replaced by
the Govt or the GOs entrusted with the responsibility, with sheer hand
power-with nothing but hoes. They come from miles around and are
required to sleep over at poly-tents . They are fed by volunteers who
prepare meals in the harvested rice paddies, like the 'bhoj' prior to
the 'meji' at Magh Bihu, except it is not much of a feast. The
logistics of feeding so many was amazing. It was partially funded by a
program called "Food for Work" I believe. Ravi explained that the
govt. did nothing for years. Ultimately the people had to gear into
action.
Attached herewith is one document describing RVC and its
many programs. I will send two more under separate mail.
I know I wrote a lot--and it always runs the risk of NOT
being read. But I hope some would take a little interest, and spread
the word, the good news. Because Assam can use many more of such
efforts as RVC's. And they are gearing up to train those leaders for
just that. Let us hope we too can do a little to give them the support
they so richly deserve.
Best to all.
cm
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