Dear Ram, The word litikai was popularized so heavily in the Assamese
literature by Lakshminath Bezbarua in his Gosain-Litikai serials
that every time you mention the
word litikai, you remember the word gosain ----- just like
the Guru-Chela stories in North Indian literature, or the knight & his
squire stories of Europe, which inspired classics such as Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza . In fact, there is a statue of Sancho Panza in Mr.
Rajen Barua insults all Assamese people by writing: Poor, pathetic 'litikai' Assamese with their 'tilika'
minds. The
Assamese, therefore, has a right to scrutinize how the mind of Mr. Rajen Barua
was working as he rushed to declare Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta as Learned MM
who wrote a very irresponsible piece of advice about storing rainwater underground in Guwahati
without any reference to the sewage pollution from the soak pits.
To clarify the example, here are the two
telltale postings: Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta wrote on
August 21, 2006:
A little arithmetic is called for. Say
you have a roof area= 100 sq mtr. and annual normal rainfall =2m.You catch every
drop and store. So to store 200 cu.mtr water in a 2.5 mtr deep underground
tank below your house, you need Rs 5 Lakhs etra over just the house
cost. You have a 10 member family -need 2 cu mtr water daily. So your annual
Harvest of Stale rainwater goes for 100 days! And for 265 days you buy-because
you did not dig your ring-well for Rs 10,000/-. At Gau today,Bhar water
costs
@Rs 20/-. Bhar= 30 litres. Hence you buy water--costing
dailyRs 1200/- Mr. Rajen Barua replied immediately:
Interesting. If this is delivered
drinking water to your flat, it is rather cheap, I would say. Less than a rupee
per litre. Here is a business tip to the local youth in
Guwahati. If you have a plot of land in
Guwahati, all you need to do is dig a deep well
and produce free drinking water. You may need little or no filtration at all. Sell the produced water to
the buildings in the city by a water tanker by pumping the water to the
roof top tanks. (You will be called whenever the city water supply will
fail or there is extra demand of water in parties). You have unlimited supply of
free water. You may not even need a license. You
do the math how much profit you will
make. I would like to hear comments from
learned MM if I am doing it
wrong. The
Assamese people has a right to note that the Gosain-Litikai
relationship between Mr. Mukul Chandra
Mahanta and Mr. Rajen Barua is so strong that Mr. Rajen Barua forgot all about the possibility of sewage
pollution from the underground soak pits and went forward to entice the local youth in Guwahati with the prospect of how much profit you will make by selling drinking
water stored in underground deep well with no filtration at all and
without any license from the Public
Health Officials. This is verily an advice to young
entrepreneurs to avoid responsibility and
accountability. The
last line I would like to
hear comments from learned MM if I am doing
it wrong sounds like a dialogue of Sancho
Panza in the classic Don Quixote. The example cited above shows how
irresponsible these advisers can be. Right now, his Learned MM is preaching
Secession of Assam from Even now hardly any Assamese are
raising their voice for independence.
They are suffering so much in inferiority
complex, they even shy away to pronounce Oxom and are trying to say Asom
so that their big brothers would not laugh. Compared to the horrific foreign infiltration which is a civilian
invasion into By using this as a litmus test for the
inferiority complex of Assamese people, Mr.
Rajen Barua has exposed his own tilika mind. Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta and his
brother Mr. Chandan Mahanta support the horrific foreign infiltration by citing
the economic benefits. When Mr. Rajen Barua supports the Mahanta brothers, he
makes a great display of the inferiority complex
of those Assamese who will sell their Mother for economic benefit.
I do not agree with your phrase pipe
dream --- Secession of Assam from Symbolically encouraged by the fact that
nobody expressed any sorrow or any condolence for the innocent victim who died
under the irresponsible By saying that these are Just my
thoughts, you have exposed, like many other netters, your hidden fear of speaking up against
the Mahanta Brothers in clear terms, because you are probably afraid that Mr.
Chandan Mahanta will attack you with strong unparliamentary words like (1)
'seraa-paagol' (2) 'bhondo toposyi
(3) adha-khunda bidya (4) 'kando-gyan' (5) 'adha-khunda' (half-baked) nit-wit
-------- in fact, Mr. Chandan Mahanta threatens that he could have used a
whole lot worse. No matter how much he threatens, I must
repeat that Secession of Assam from I urge the Assamese to stand up and
voice in confidence against the irresponsible leadership of the Mahanta
Brothers. Symbolically --- and as a token --- they may start their protest to
Mahanta Brothers by expressing their sorrow and condolence for the innocent
victim who died under the With the best
wishes, Himendra
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