We too received this anonymous mail today. It is indeed sad that and its a crying shame that something like this has come to pass in our community. This is not the way to gain any kind of mileage. It seems this is the second time.
We too urge all in the community to condemn such letters.
Over the years, we too have had some stark differences of opinion with Sarma da. However, in the end, he has always been someone we all look up for guidance.
He is an outstanding member of our community, and we as a society need to keep that in mind.
Our suggestion is to throw such mail in the trash where it belongs.
Shame on whoever wrote this letter.
As we have reiterated many, many times, PERSONAL attacks (specially those from anonymous quarters) should be condemned by each and every one of us.
We do want to get our points across, and there are still many issues that we would like answers to from the Houston Host Committee, but this is not the way.
We both are very much in favor of a "Unification" - but if this is the way to accomplish this, we don't want any part of it.
We are deeply hurt and saddened by this letter, and we would like to let Dada and B'deu know that despite our differences, that we condemn this type of behavior in no uncertain terms and they have our full support in this matter.
Ramgopal & Alpana (Mala) Houston, Texas
I am very distressed at an anonymous piece of mail that we received this
evening. Some one in our community found it fit, to write scurrilous
things
> about one of our own, Mr. Barada Sarma of Austin, Texas.
>
>
> I make no bones about the fact, that I have had a few differences of
> opinion about our community matters with Sarma-da. Netters have seen how
we
> debated issues, even today. But it never is on a personal level. We have
> always valued and cherished the friendship that we have enjoyed with Sarma
> da and Kumkum Baideu.
>
>
> Coming at the heels of our spirited arguments today, this piece of mail
was
> a shock, a complete downer. It was a symbol of shame for our community. I
> can't believe one amongst us would stoop so low to revile another with
> such cowardice.
>
>
> Let us digress here for a moment, and look at the principles involved. Let
> us assume for a moment that all the charges made in the letter are true
and
> factual. If so, could there have been no legal recourses? It is not that
we
> have no legal remedy, and so such an act could be condoned as an act of
> desperation by the weak, the powerless and the disenfranchised. Far from
> the truth. The
> stability and security we enjoy in this adopted land of ours is available
> to us all, because of a rule of laws.
>
> It was charged that the object of this attack declared bankruptcy. Is it a
> crime? Bankruptcy is a legal instrument to protect someone who might have
> gotten into a situation , by mistake or by chance--even by design, from
> which she has no way of digging out. But it is a LEGAL instrument. People
> don't go about declaring bankruptcy out of choice.Mostly.
>
>
> Again, EVEN if all of the charges and innuendos levelled were to be true,
> HOW we, Assam Netters, could be in a position to judge it? By taking the
> words of the anonymous writer? Is it plausible? Are we THAT stupid? Isn't
> the writer capable of even this much of common sense? How stupid can
HE/SHE
> get?
>
>
> I invite netters to condemn such acts of cowardice unequivocally. Sitting
> around pretending we have not seen or heard any evil is an act of
cowardice
> too. And a society of cowards is destined to reap the harvest it
deserves.
> I hope we would rise above that.
>
>
> cm
>
>
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