Title: Re: [Assam] "Oxom"-"Asom" controversy is a "tilika" (littl
At the risk of inciting adverse reactions, I must say this was an astute bit of observation and excellent advice.

Regardless of whether anyone sat, 'we' do sit here and wish only 'ananda' for HT :-).

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At 11:35 PM -0500 8/29/06, Barua25 wrote:
Himenda:
Please excuse me but you write too long and even than most of the time you fail to make your point. I think it is because you write with too much emotion rather than with reason and logic. Here is my sincere word of advice. If you would just pause and think, before you write, what point you want to make with your message, you may be able to convey your message forcefully and with much less words.
 
In this particular case, if your point was to try to influence the netters to ostracize Rajen Barua (for whatever reasons other than your  apparent jealousy perhaps: How dare he supports MM my enemy? Otherwise I have no clue "moi apwnar ki pani khowa pukhurit bih dhalilw"), or to convince the netters how bad these Mahanta Brothers are and how immatured and coward this Ramgopal is, you should come to the point like a falling stone instead of like a feather flying all over and making too much noise and not making any sensible sound. After doing that you should be prepared to get more frustrated because we have here a bunch of wise and intelligent netters who see through things. 
 
I respect you for your literary talents and your knowledge on Hinduism and whatever you are worth. But being educated and experienced in Hindu philosophy, you should know when to quit and take things philosophically. By failing to do so you are simply trying to expose yourself to the world your true adhyantik self. You may end up and live your life with much frustration and a bitter feeling to this 'sat-sit-ananda' world. You must learn love and magnanimity to discuss things among friends in a matured way.
 
Thanks
 
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Himendra Thakur
To: Ram Sarangapani
Cc: assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:16 PM
Subject: [Assam] "Oxom"-"Asom" controversy is a "tilika" (little) topic

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 Sarangapani
To: Barua25
Cc: assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:20 AM
Subject: 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.
 
--Ram
 
 
On 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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