Dear Sondon Da,
Yes Please - We would like to hear why you have
been forwarding articles from TOI or Indian
express/Telegraph commenting about poverty in
Bihar or rapes inside women's hostels in Delhi.
If they dont concern Assam, why forward those
articles or get heartburn from them?
Since you went right out of this country with
gamosa, et al :-) with the intention of never
returning, could you explain your pastime of
continually making digs at India or Indians for
all of Assam's ills.
I assume when Ulfa was formed in '79, you were
not around but were gone long before that.
Rgds,
Sandip
----- Original Message ----
From: Krishnendu Chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: assam@assamnet.org; Krishnendu Chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:36:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ASSAM
>Printing articles
of Tavleen Singh
criticizing Delhi does not do a damn thing for
Assam.
So, let us know why you publish those Or for that
matter the news items on what Delhi or Mumbai police
is doing?
I don' t care
what India is
doing or when Indians are going to the moon or to
hell in a
hand-basket.
Then why cry hoarse on Indian Education System ...
you really do not care right ??
Can you or anybody else here explain why there is
nothing useful or
meaningful to show for Rs. 300,000,000 a year for
32,000,000 people
of the region?
A couple of things off the head --- flyovers of
Guwahati, Software Technology Park in Borjhar (though
there are no takers because of threat to
life/business), Tejpur University, the Golden
quadrilateral road network connecting Assam to rest of
India.
I know Health/Primary education etc remains concern
..... but these matters are in State Govt's hand ,
why blame Delhi for these? There have been umpteen
cases where funds allocated have been returned
unutilized and/or shared by top Assamese officials
with blessing of Dispur ....where does GOI comes in
picture here ???
You mentioned that GOI allocated Rs. 300,000,000 a
year for Assam ? If GOA cannot utilize it or misuses
it, HOW GOI is to be blamed? How other states are
utilizing it? How will you ensure that the GOA of
Independent Assam will NOT misuse public fund ?
You realy could not show who are the people who
support Sovereignty (other then you) ?
You have mentioned couple of times -- Assam is living
life of beggar etc
why do you think Assam is living in dependency,
beggars life etc.?
If it is because Assam is a part of India, don't you
think that in Independent Assam, all districts of
Assam will be living in dependency, beggars life
because Guwahati (or some other place) will be capital
of Independent Assam and will "loot" from these
districts ·.. so we just shift our target from Delhi
to Guwahati?
Tea and Petroleum, the two major resources of Assam,
are concentrated in certain districts ... not spread
evenly across Assam. Don't you think these districts
will then start asking for Independence from Assam?
And drill it down further ... every town will want to
be a Independent Country.
If you think things will be different, why? What is
your model?
How do you envision an independent Assam? What are
your objectives and how you plan to achieve those ?
I would assume that this will be the most important
point if you start a debate ·. How will you ensure
that the people of Assam will have a better life then
what they have today and how will you ensure that
there will be no further disintegration (with 100+
militant groups in NE, seems like we need to have
100+ countries in NE )? How will you handle the
illegal immigration issue?
You have been harping on India/Delhi's evils. How do
we know that we are not moving to a greater evil?
Given the experience of managing Dispur by our one
time great student leaders, we need some concrete plan
and proof how you can give us a Xonor Axom ? We also
need to know the credibility of People who are going
to run the (Islamic ?) republic of Assam?
With all of Assam's population right from bureaucrats
to School Teachers to Journalists opposing Soverignty,
who are the people who will work with you and why ?
In last one decade you have been asking for
Independence citing evils of India but have always
eluded when it came to answering HOW you are going to
give us a better life and how you are going to run the
show.
And with GOUSA going on a spree looting oil rich
countries, are you sure they will not target Assam
soon ?
On a different context, I just noticed Assam.org
mentions that Assam produces over half of India's
petroleum. However, on a GOI site, I found that
Assam & Nagaland Produces around 13% of India's
Petroleum . Does anyone know what is the correct
figure?
--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am perfectly willing to hear about Indian reforms
> that are real,
achievable , sustainable and addresses the issues
involving Assam ,
its disaffections and its progress. But let us get
one thing straight
first: It is NOT about ME. Wouldn't YOU want to hear
about it?
Wouldn't ALL want to hear of it?
To charge, as an argument, that I don't want to hear
of it 'in the
Indian framework' ( heh-heh, that must be some
framework alright) is
the most preposterous proposition one can imagine.
But these
inquisitions have been mostly that, over and over
again.
If I did not, I would not ask Indian flag-wavers to
propose them.
Jairam Ramesh could propose them, or Laloo Yadav or
even Narendra
Modi. I have been waiting for twenty five years to
see it happen,
even in little increments, but perceptibly and
making a difference.
However it does not take a genius to see where
Ramesh
stood--throwing in the towel , with his comment.
Critical essays are not enough. Nor is
chest-thumping demonizing
Tarun Gogoi or Prafulla Mahanta. Printing articles
of Tavleen Singh
criticizing Delhi does not do a damn thing for
Assam. One needs to
look at Assam's unique problems and help find
solutions for them.
Obviously Indian governance has not been able to do
that for sixty
years. That is easily understandable. Indian
governance has remained
as dysfunctional as it always have been. They are
unable seek out
people who have better ideas, achievable ideas, from
outside the
establishment if they have to, Import them if they
must.
Show me one thing from the Indian press that has
> attempted to deal
substantially with Assam issues, pinpoint problems
and offer
solutions.
>Yes, open your eyes and see how India is improving
*** How does is that helping Assam? I don' t care
what India is
doing or when Indians are going to the moon or to
hell in a
hand-basket. Show me how it is helping Assam.
Can you or anybody else here explain why there is
nothing useful or
meaningful to show for Rs. 300,000,000 a year for
32,000,000 people
of the region? Don't forget your 65% voter
participated election
generated democratic government running the show.
But I won't hold my breath on anyone touching that
subject, unless
wrapped with a thick tarpaulin of 'no-comprendo' or
some other
insulating device :-).
At 11:22 AM -0700 8/15/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty
wrote:
>--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ram,
>>
>> Your response here , unfortunately, smacks of
the
>> immensely
>> uncreative and unimaginative but argumentative
one.
>> It fits right in
>> the mold of the Indian govt. policies spanning
>> decades, uncreative,
>> unproductive, stuck in the muck of their own
>> creations.
>>
>> You have no goal here, nothing to aim for,
>> quarreling for the sake of
>> quarreling; very similar to what some of these
>> journalists have been
>> doing. So I can understand your empathy for the
>> targets of my
>> criticism.
>>
>>
>> Could you tell us what is wrong or bad in my
>> suggestions? NO.
>>
>
>Yes, your suggestions revolve around Sovereign
Assam
> and you do not want to hear anything which
suggest
>improvement within Indian framework (similar to the
>saying which you mentioned). The Assam Press have
>been a lot critical of GOI/GOA policies and steps
then
>you but the difference is they do constructive
>criticism and they do see some of the improvements
of
>India/Assam too. Whether GOI/GOA take any lesson
>from their criticizm is a different story (just the
>way your GOUSA not always learn lessons from US
>Press).
>You have in fact discounted the whole of Indian
Press
>under Desi-Demokrasy but you are the one who uses
>articles by Tavleen Singh and others as well as
news
>reports from Indian news papers to kill GOI/GOA.
>
>
>> Could you present a better alternative? None!
>
>Yes, open your eyes and see how India is improving
> >.... shed the arms and be a part of this
development.
> there are a number of private investors who are
eager
>to invest in smaller towns and cities only if there
is
>no threat to their life/business
>
>>
>> And could you explain the contradiction in the
>> claim about
>>
>> > "------During last couple of elections Assam
has
>> witnessed at
>> > >least 65% or more vote casting. This
essentially
>> >means that at least 65% of Assam's
people
>> believe in
>> >Indian Constitution.
>>
>>
>> that Krishnendu posted, echoing your and others'
> > claims of elections
>> as a proof of Assam voters' issue awareness or
>> informed expression
>> of preferences as it relates to the B'deshi
>> immigration issue and
>> the GoI/GoA's non-acknowledgement and inaction
over
>> it, while that
>> segment of the Assam press that cries hoarse
over
>> it and whom you
>> are attempting to shield from criticisms here ?
>
>Thanks for rejecting the voting by Indian/Assamese
>population. This really shows how much willing
you
>are to accept the verdict of people. You will
surely
>reject the referendum on similar flimsy ground that
>these people do not know what they are doing. And
>before you jump on debate and discussion , if
there
>is a really free platform to debate (without
threats
>from some sections), there will be many more voice
>rejecting the Sovereignty issue.
>
>As you have noticed, the Assamese intellegsia has
>already rejected Sovereign Assam theory (if you
> think
>otherwise, tell me 10 prominent people of Assam who
>support it); you have already rejected the voting
by
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