Re: [Assam] From the ToI

J Kalita Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:52:16 -0800

So Rajiv, before you blame the ULFA and the demand for sovereignty for all ills, reflect and see what Indian rule to Assam has wrought. It has brought the Assam Nation to almost decimation. Part of that is the fault of those who constitute the Assam Nation, but I believe most of the reasons for the decimation of the Assam Nation identity lies with actions (such as division of Assam, encouraging insurgency when it suits its purpose, making Assam youth kill each other by creating SULFA and arming them, not stopping immigration from Bangladesh, encouraging immigration from India, steeping Assam in the corruption mode imitating oBihar and other Indian states, use of a repressive Hindi-speaking Army, complete cultural domination by Hindi media/entertainment leading to a lack of respect for and opportunities in the native languages, and a complete lack of concern for the survival of identity of the constituents of the Assam Nation, etc.) of the supremely powerful Indian Government compared to the current powers of the Assam Nation. The Indian Government simply doesn't care and actually would like to accelerate the destruction of the Assam identity so that Indian identity can flourish. I am completely opposed to this goal of the Indian Nation and that is why I ask for sovereignty of the Assam Nation. Let the Indian Nation show goodwill, then I will reciprocate. If you are a mouthpiece of the Indian Nation, tell me what it has done and will do for the benefit of the Assam Nation!

Please be balanced on your views regarding sovereignty of the Assam Nation. It is necessary for our survival. If you don't feel that you are an interested party in the survival, growth and continued flourishing of the Assam Nation, you don't understand the problem and you are not qualified to talk on behalf of the Assam Nation.

Jugal Kalita
Colorado

On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 01:02 AM, Rajib Das wrote:

Fair enough! There are enough rants against India
happening anyway on this board.

But the questions I have asked in this post - about
their idealogy, the definitiveness of their vision -
are these pertinent or are these rants?

I am not a fan of the Indian bureacracy. In the years
since the first promises of revolutions in our region,
however, much has changed. People in other regions
somehow have seized the moment and moved forward -
inspite of what some may call a debilitating system.
We have remained mired in old shibboleths. Our local
leadership within the Indian system and without (in
equal measure) is devoid of any vision. And yet, there
is never much serious discussion on it.

Almost as if this "sovereignity" thing is a sacred god
in itself. Or for the rest of us a false god!

--- J Kalita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Rajib,

Why do you keep on ranting against the ULFA only?
You should rant
against the Indian Army who kill and torture
innocents in large numbers
and Indian bureaucrats (the establishment) who are
mostly all corrupt
to the bone in the same breath to have any semblance
of reasonableness
in your writings.

Jugal


On Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 06:36 PM, Rajib
Das wrote:

And ULFA was NOT 'discredited' when it emerged.

Even

now it is
discredited only in certain circles. ULFA could

not

"Certain circles" indeed! Innocent civilians

bombed

out and the level of extortion and the money

hoarded

in Bangladesh are somewhat universal yardsticks

for

defining discredited or not.
In any case we are talking about the future and

the

system for it. Not about what ULFA was 20 years

back.

About what it is today and what it is capable of
tommorow versus what the current system is today

and

what it is capable of tomorrow.
So what is the verdict on the following about ULFA

AS

THINGS STAND TODAY:
a. Its capability to define the "sovereign" nation

it

is fighting for
b. Its capability or defined vision in terms of

how it

will govern the sovereign nation in a way that is
fundamentally better than what it is today?
c. Its defined idealogy and the committment of its
cadre to its idealogy?.
d. Its capability to wage war "successfully"
e. And to cut it short, its record of respecting
people's opinion?

Then there is the small point about whether it

does

indeed represent the sovereign nation it has

defined

for itself?

                
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