I am glad Mano Hazarika asked the question publicly. It was going around
for months, but in the background. No doubt it was a thorn in the side of
Houstonians and spread to the entire AANA community.
I am glad that Jugal answered it publicly as well.
The only way to deal with disappointments and misunderstandings is to
express them forthrightly and in a timely manner, so that the issues could
be gotten to the bottom of and hopefully resolved and laid to rest.
But instead we hold the problems under wraps, deliver to the wrong people,
talk about them in in the hush-hush and let them fester, resulting in a
poisoned environment.
Even though it is not my place to bring it up, let me do it anyway, because
there are a couple of other gripes that were expressed to me, but I have no
idea if it was taken to Jugal et al and/or the DenverHost Comm.:
One has to do with Mamoni Goswami. It has been charged
that ASA showed disrespect to Goswami by not attending her address.
Some respected members of the AANA community have apparently vowed
not to attend joint conventions in the future on account of this.
Would someone address this and hopefully put the matter to rest?
The other deals with something about refreshments either not
given to or taken away from a meeting, possibly the Mamoni
Goswami address. Can someone explain the problem and hopefully
Denver explain it?
There is another one I just remembered. It is about some donations
made
to ASNA and that ASNA never got it or something like that.
While we are at airing our GRIPES, I have this for Mano Hazarika: I have
put together a reply to your qwuestions yesterday. One was about WHY UAONA
continues to exist. But before I post my response, may I ask WHAT it is
that drives YOU or whoever else is asking it, WHY it should NOT continue to
exist?
I will answer it forthrightly. In fact I have it written already. I have no
intent of evading or ignoring unlike we have seen in a whole lot of other
such questions. But let us first hear WHY it ought not to exist? *I* know
why you asked it. But There are a lot of Netters who don't. Let us set the
context and the scene, so that my answer could be evaluated by the readers
in perspective of issues and events.
If Hazarika is unwilling to soil himself more by handling it, let us have
someone more courageous come forth and lay it bare. Shall we?
cm
At 10:46 AM -0600 9/16/03, J Kalita wrote:
>Mano da,
>
>You ask why in Denver, the Texas performances were pushed back later
>in the evening. In Denver, the problems were the following
>
>1) The main problem was everything started late.
>2) The tablist we hired said he would leave at 11 PM.
> Dr. Anima Chowdhury, who was our featured guest said she wouldn't
> sing without a tablist. So, we had to get her program done
> before the tablist left. Programs had to be moved around.
>3) We paid several hundred dollars to the tablist (I think something
> like 700 or 750 for two long days). He was the "best" in Colorado.
> We didn't have money to pay him a few hundred extra dollars
> to keep him beyond 11 PM.
>4) Some of the MCs, who were young, changed programs around without
> telling anyone when Bonmayuri (one of the persons
> in charge) was getting dressed before her dance and when he
> went to her room to get changed after the program. This was
> a total of an hour or so.
>5) The other person in charge, Deepak, didn't know anyone in the
> Assamese community. He is also a very easy going person.
> When people forcefully demanded changing of schedule, he approved them.
> And, people can be forcefu!
>6) From what I remember, the Texas performers wanted their programs
> to be together so that they can showcase their talents.
>
>I think I have explained these things to many people over and over again.
>I hope it puts things to rest once for all.
>
>I have deep regards
>for the Texas Assamese individuals for their artistic, organizational,
>political and fund-raising abilities. But, you guys have to act
>a little less forceful, a little more giving, a little more sensitive,
>a little more
>respectful of others. Otherwise, in spite
>of all the great qualities you possess, the general impression
>among a lot of people is that you guys behave like bullies, whether it's
>true or not.
>
>The behind-the-scenes agreement with ASA in St. Louis came because
>ASA insisted on it. ASA saw it as a way to bind AANA (when AANA
>was showing clear tendencies to go it alone) to a joint
>decision-making process, which is good for the community.
>
>The unification poll was completely rigged. Yes, I and a couple of others
>run assam.org on without making any money. We have spent several thousand
>dollars over the past 6-7 years running it without anything in return.
>We could have written/used a better program, but we don't have the time
>to do so, although we are trying our best. We have had many polls
>on the site, and this is the first time people took to rigging.
>We will have better polling software soon.
>
>
>
>Jugal
>
>
>
>
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