A: Before anyone miscontrues the meaning of :>Nothing that is a surprise to me, and >most others too. But the stupidity is incredible-- as something meant >about YOU, I wish to clarify that the comment was about Indian Goivt. and >its attitudes. It was not a comment on YOUR response, even though I >disagree with it in its entirety :-).
c-da At 5:44 PM -0500 10/3/03, Chan Mahanta wrote: >Thanks for sharing your thoughts A. Nothing that is a surprise to me, and >most others too. But the stupidity is incredible. > >Actually I saw this news over a week ago, when Saurav posted it. At that >time I was wondering if the unexplained silence of the riverlink group at >yahoo shut down because of this. More than likely it is the reason. > >But my question is this: Is the Indian union so weak, that its leaders >would rather deprive hundreds of thousands of its citizens of the use of >the Yahoo Groups in the Internet, than let some curious citizens go visit >the dozen or so Khasi seccessionist group's discussions/posts advocation >seccession of the Khasi nation? > >Big Brother in its incredible paranoia and a great example of cutting off >one's nose to spite its face is how *I* see it. The Khasi group is probably >laughing its guts out over the terror it spread in the hearts of the >custodians of India's territorial integrity. > >What will be interesting is HOW the Indian Big Brothers will react next, if >some teenage ( or even adult) Internet prankster puts out something else to >terrorize them in some other forum. In fact if there is no change in the >infinite wisdom of desi-cyber-darwans, the entire Internet could be shut >down for Indians. Imagine that. > >That brings me to the topographical map/s of India and its scarcity. I >spoke to folks at both USGS and maplink.com. The USGS has topo maps of >south-east Asia, which shows a tiny part of eastern Assam, a copy of which >I purchased. They referred me to maplink.com, who has maps of most every >part of the world, including now Russia and even, imagine that, China - I >mean PRC. But none for India. The USGS guy told me that India strangely >does not allow mapping of its territory. Anyway, I did purchase copies of >topo maps of eastern India from, guess who?-- US Army Defense Mapping >Agency, which is HQed in St. Louis, from maplink.com. It is not that >detailed but enough to give me a fairly good idea about the lay of the >land from the Chinese borders to B'desh borders, showing contour lines at >500 feet intervals and spot grades at selected locations. I needed >something at at least 100 ft. elevation intervals. > >Do you think the bureaucracy of India can do better by its people? I think >this desreves at least an IgNoble prize. > >c-da > > > > > > > > >At 4:09 PM -0500 10/3/03, Alpana Sarangapani wrote: >>I sent it just to make your day/weekend, C'da. Did it work? :) >> >>Seriously, I think its the proper and measured response. Its one thing to >>ensure freedom of expression, but quite another to allow someone to fan >>anti-national feelings in the name of freedom of expression. The Patriot Act >>II is much more restrictive, isn't it? >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Alpana Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:55 PM >>Subject: Re: [Assam] India's ban on Internet forum >> >> >>> What do you think of the Indian Govt. response, A? >>> >>> >>> c-da >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> At 11:45 PM -0500 10/2/03, Alpana Sarangapani wrote: >>> > Has anybody heard of the group called 'Kynhun' ? Read it in Houston >>> >Chronicle (AP news) this morning that "a ban on an Internet discussion >>> >group run by an obscure separatist movement has ended up blocking access >>> >to popular unrelated Yahoo forums in nearly all of India." The forum >>is >>> >called "Kynhun Bri U Hynniewtrep", "which has about two dozen members >>and >>> >is run by a separatist group called Hynniewtrep International Liberation >>> >Council. The little-known organization says it represents the ethnic >>> >Khasi people and wants their home region, a small slice of the country's >>> >north-east, to secede from India." ---- What's new? Seems it happened >>> >at the end of last month. Here is a web site: >>> >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3148288.stm____________________ >>_____ >>> >______________________ >>> >Assam mailing list >>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Assam mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > > > >_______________________________________________ >Assam mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
