Dear Barua,
>This should not be interpreted to mean that I support (or >object) Independence of Assam
How can you be in the middle? I doubt, if one could find anyone (Assamese) who is neither here nor there :-)
> If you read history, Assam was actually begging Gandhi and Nehru and the >Congress, before 1947, so that Assam can stay with India. (Please! let us >stay with you guys,
ami apwnalwkor nkina golam hoi thakim).
This is some very interesting history. I was not aware of this. But if this the case, then the most important question is: Why this movement for indpendence? Are the pro-independence people just brushing aside history? Why are they now claiming otherwise?
I wrote a post some days ago (forget the exact words), where I thought that this indepenence movement was not based on cultural or historial differences or events, but on the aspirations of a few people for power. All they did was to play up on the emotions of sections of the Assamese on issues like step-motherly treatment, economically being sidelined etc. to keep the movement alive.
> (Is there any field where Assam is taking a leadership role?)
How about bandhs? :-). No, no, its not so bad. Today, we see many Assamese in leading roles throughout India, both in Govt. and in the private sectors. But, unfortunately, very few poistive things are happening in Assam itself.
--Ram
On 8/31/06, Barua25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ram:Thanks.Couple of clarifications lest people mis-interpret my statement.>Assamese are suffering 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.The above statement of mine is just a statement of the realty. This should not be interpreted to mean that I support (or object) Independence of Assam. I am simply saying that Assamese is not a warrior people with high National spirit or unity like the Nagas or other people and donot have the will, courage, spirit and love of freedom for independence. I agree that 'independence' is definitely a 'pipe dream' now (specially since we donot have any leader), but probably it was not a pipe dream when Assam was under the British till 1947. (I have my own analysis why Assam lost the freedom spirit after 1857 when Maniram Dewan was hanged). Today, whether we NEED independence or not is completely another subject.The second realty is that, Assamese is not even an equal partner in the Indian Independence movement and in the Indian Democratic game today. If you read history, Assam was actually begging Gandhi and Nehru and the Congress, before 1947, so that Assam can stay with India. (Please! let us stay with you guys, ami apwnalwkor nkina golam hoi thakim). There was no movement for an Independent Assam as an alternative to joining Pakistan. Assam could have very well say it to the British, at that time: Please give us back our Assam that you took from us in 1826. But Assam did not. In fact the Assamese were so happy to be a part of India that Assamese wanted to forget the six hundred years of Ahom rule. Assamese novelist wrote novels 'Kwnw Khed Nai" (No Regret) ridiculing the six hundred years of Ahom rule. Eminent man of literature took comfort and wrote auto-biography titled : "Kongresor Kasioli Rodot". This is a realty.Now having joined India on its own choice (or its own begging) we are complaining that India is treating Assam like a step child. Today the insurgency in Assam is happening as a negative outlet because of lack of leadership in Assam. It is not a positive movement for independence by any means.Your statement that"They very well know that their lot is in much better state staying with India than being independent."Actually people of Assam donot have any choice, do they? Your statement also goes to show that people of Assam lack even the confidence in their own people. In other words it goes to prove my statement that they are suffering from a acute inferiority complex.If one analyze the stream of events, one will come to the conclusion, that Assamese is a follower, a litikai to the mainland Indians. (Is there any field where Assam is taking a leadership role?) This is a realty.That is and will be Assam's lot till we can create new and competent leaders. The earlier we realize this the better so that we can act.RB----- Original Message -----From: Ram SarangapaniTo: Barua25Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:20 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.--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----- Original Message -----From: Chan MahantaSent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:19 PMSubject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
Rajen:
>It is an Assamese problem of inferiority complex. Nobody will save the Assamese. We should stop blamimg the GOI.
*** Can you explain how or why it is an Assamese problem only, free of any connection or responsibility of GoI?
It is important to understand that, if your advice to 'stop blaming GoI' is to be taken seriously.
c
At 11:12 PM -0500 8/22/06, Barua25 wrote:>Not just no- drinking/washing water->No solid waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit for a city>No sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water disposal
Why we don't hear any of these news in Kharkhowa News Papers? Why the news papers in are interested in news from mainland India instead?
It is an Assamese problem of inferiority complex. Nobody will save the Assamese. We should stop blamimg the GOI.
RB
----- Original Message -----From: mc mahantTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: assam@assamnet.orgSent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:21 AMSubject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcementNot just no- drinking/washing water-No solid waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit for a cityNo sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water disposalRaw sewage from so-called Septic tanks of 2 million people just dumped into the pure river.What happens to the health of Kamrup/Goalpara/Dhubri--and the whole nation -Bangladesh?And Delhi's very own Refinery dumps daily 100 tons of Oil waste direct to river or through Guahati drain system/Bharalu and no Pollution Control Board dares to touch them.Indian Science does not know/cares to know that 1 drop of oil spreads to a film of 100 sq mtr opaque for Oxygen.No Oxygen-> no planktons->no fish->no Xihoo (River Porpoise).Who Cares!P.S.Thanks for the free publicity {MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement}Let ignorance/bigotry/mediocrity thrive!!!mm
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:55:48 -0500
>This whole notion of a city, with as large a population as Guahati,
>not having a municipal water supply system is absolutely atrocious,
>and that while sitting on the bank of the Brahmaputra.
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>It is entirely a result of the dysfunctional desi-system of governance; which
>is unaccountable to anyone, made up of thoroughly incompetent people, and who
>do not have a clue as to how to tap into the abilities and skills of
>its own people.
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>Nothing could change for the better under this system. Only option is
>to dump it and build a new society from its ashes.
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>At 6:48 AM -0700 8/22/06, Rajib Das wrote:
> >The big problem is there is no water under your land
> >in Guwahati. As there are areas, including my house,
> >where city water supply does not reach. Not that it
> >would help greatly. At least 3 to 4 months of a year,
> >it is the same problem.
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> >So the problem exists. The solution is not under your
> >plot of land. If Brahmaputra water can be
> >appropriately filtered and sold, that is a different
> >animal all together.
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