I have spent about 15 minutes in www.assam.org looking for the relevant email that prompt Sri Chandan Mahanta to write the following email, but I could not find it in the archive.
I did not mean to write that I am suspicious on Sri Mahanata, in this regard, but would Sri Mahanta or someone in the net please show me the relevant link to the email that prompt Sri Mahanta to write the following in Assam-net. I am trying to get a flavour of SPIN and HYPE :-) Thanks, Biraj --- Chan Mahanta's email from assam.org --- http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/pipermail/assam/2003-September/003053.html ----------------------------------- [Assam] Shame Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:21:11 -0500 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
