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 Madrid!
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 India" [sometimes camouflaging the word "secession" behind the word "independence"] and no wonder Mr. Rajen Barua rushes to blame the Assamese people
"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 Assam, the "Oxom"-"Asom" controversy is a "tilika" (little) topic.
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 India is much more serious than a "pipe-dream" --- it is murder of millions of innocent victims. Just like Partition of India was murder of millions 60 years ago.
Symbolically encouraged by the fact that nobody expressed any sorrow or any condolence for the innocent victim who died under the irresponsible Mahanta Building, the Mahanta Brothers are now bolstering their utterly irresponsible crusade of "Secession of Assam from India".
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 India is much more serious than a "pipe-dream" --- it is murder of millions of innocent victims."
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 Mahanta Building.
With the best wishes,
Himendra
----- Original Message -----From: Ram SarangapaniTo: Barua25Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:20 AMSubject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
Dear Barua,>Even now hardly any Assamese are raising their voice for >independence.Very few actually raised the voice of independence, and fewer still do so today. I think, in case for independence, most Assamese are actually being savvy and and realize what a pipe dream this venture really is. They very well know that their lot is in much better state staying with India than being independent. That is why, you will find very few voices for independence.I doubt they are being 'litikai' at all.Just my thoughts.--RamOn 8/28/06, Barua25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I thought I never had to respond.Assamese are suffereing from an acute inferiority complex.That is why they want to stay with India and are staying with India and will stay with India forever.That is why they never raised their voice to stay as an independent country at the time of India's independence.Even now hardly any Assamese are raising their voice for independence.Today Assamese are not even complaining against the GOI. They are simply saying that GOI is treating Assam like a step child. All Assam wants, is GOI to treat them as a 'legitimate child.' They dream of the day when Mai Bap GOI would treat them as their own child. That is all they want. That is the highest dream of an Assamese. As a result they wait for GOI's command to say what Assam would do so that they follow GOI like a 'litikai' and can please GOI.Assamese could solve lot of their problems if simply they would stand up and voice in confidence.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. There is hardly any Assamese intellectual left in Assam. They even donot know their own history and culture.Poor, pathetic 'litikai' Assamese with their 'tilika' minds.RB
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