http://www.cyberbangladesh.org/ganges.html
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_4480.shtml
Hi C'da:
>In the meantime, shgare some of your thoughts on the matter, would you? I am sure Assam >would appreciate it.
Thanks C'da for your confidence in me. I will definitely try to do so. In the meantime, here are some views from B'desh. The first one is complete/replete with graphs and figures. Interesting nevertheless.
Ram
BTW: It seems the main reason for the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the scarcity of water in that region!
>From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Assam] Water Resources >Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:22:54 -0500 > >Thanks for the link Ram . > > >It is the same article by Dr. Nayan Sharma, that Romen Goswami from UK sent us. > > >I thought it was a good article and addresses important issues. > > >I know I am one who, Kalidas like :-), go off on a limb one too many times >and take on issues against the current of seemingly popular sentiments. >River-linking has been one of them. I have been quite intrigued by the >studied silence of Assam Netters on the subject. Is it disinterest, or is >it a fear of climbing limbs, Kalidas fashion you think :-)? > > >I would have thought this group of vocal and fearless netters would have >been all over the Prabhu's paralogism about riverlinking like a cheap shawl >:-). > > >Assam's technocrats and intellectuals have been attempting, by and large, >to be on both sides of the issue at the same time. I sent a letter to the >editor of an unnamed :-) widely circulated English daily, challenging the >opinions of one such piece. They considered printing it, but later decided >not to. Since I suggested that it might be too long to print as a letter to >the editor and if so I offered to re-write it as an article, they >counter-proposed that.Which I did. But this time, even receipt of it was >NOT acknowledged - twice. I suspect my views were way too strong for gentle >kharkhowa ways :-). Anyway a fellow netter happened to forward some of >these to an U S based Internet journal dealing with South Asian issues. >They found it interesting and are going to publish it I was told. We will >see if that happens. > > >In the meantime, shgare some of your thoughts on the matter, would you? I >am sure Assam would appreciate it. > >c-da > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >At 6:31 PM -0500 9/29/03, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > > Here are two ariticles on water resurces, I came across, while browsing > >thru the Calcutta Statesman. Both offer interesting reading. Ram > >
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