Title: Re: [Assam] Acute inferiorty complex IC
Mr. Chandan Mahanta,
It is a matter of great distress
that you are sending me copies of letters that you write to
others.
On March 8, 2006, I wrote to you
that :
Your accusation that I am
involved in a crime to perpetrate ethnic-cleansing, to send them
to gas-chambers is a
blatant insinuation. You must take full responsibility of what you
wrote.
I demand you immediately
retract what you wrote and tender your apology to
me.
You have
not retracted your above accusations. Pending that, you cannot send me any
e-mail.
Please
stop sending e-mail directly to me.
Yours
truly,
Himendra
Thakur
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 10:23
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Acute inferiorty
complex IC
Rajen:
I have no problem with Ram or anyone else interpreting the way they do or
attempt to defend whomever they do, in turn or out of turn.
I understand your desire to get an answer from Himen-da, I do too. But as
recent history amply illustrates, it is very unlikely to appear. Himen-da does
not reply when he paints himself into an intellectual corner with his own
arguments.
But be that as it may, Ram's arguments hold no water anyway, as I
explained moments earlier.
c
At 4:21 PM -0600 3/11/06, Barua25 wrote:
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Ram:
Pleasedon't mind my saying so, but have noticed couple of times that
you try to come out for somebody else's defense without giving the
person a chance to respond or make his point. I think this also shows
disrespect to the person unless you know for sure the other person's
position. In view of that I will resist responding to this
message and say anything against Himenda simply because I don't know if what
you are saying are also Himend'as point of view. I think you are
talking things out of context. But I would rather show respect to
the person and let him respond.
Barua.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ram
Sarangapani
To: Chan
Mahanta
Cc: Barua25 ;
Himendra Thakur ; assam@assamnet.org ; Dilip/Dil Deka ; J Kalita ; Ginima Barua ; Indrajit Barua
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Acute inferiorty complex
IC
C'da,
I am surprised!
>Himenda's attempts to
Sanskritize Oxomiya words and phrases, demonstrates his own insecurity and
inferiority >complex as an Oxomiya -- driving him to Sanskritized
versions of words and phrases. He even writes 'desh', as in
>deshotkoi'.
One could also argue (quite
effectively) that trying to do just the opposite is because of one's own
inferiority complex and insecurity.
If Assamese is being
Sankritized, would that be a scary scenario for some? If so,
why are they scared? Don't they have the confidence that the language is
and always has been strong from these onslaughts?
Look at English. One of the
reasons its so popular is because it borrows heavily from many languages
(many Indian ones included), and the language is ever evolving with
inclusions of even words from American rap music.
So, the question is: Are Americans
or the English have doubts that their language will be diluted because the
English language resorts to constantly borrowing from Non
Anglo-Saxon/Greek/Lantin languages?
My whole take on this is: Its fine
for any language to borrow unique ways of writing some
words from other languages - that only makes the language richer and
becomes inclusive. The option of writing a word like Dex in
other forms (des or desh) might indicate that the language is not just
inclusive but also has several "accepatble" ways of writing certain words.
Isn't that more welcoming to others.
I am no expert in these matters,
and could be totally off base - but these are my thoughts for the moment
and am willing to change them if I could be convinced. AKN should really
weigh in this.
--Ram
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