Dear Saloi:
It was nice to hear from you again. You have been awful quiet for a very long time. I am not complaining however. The fact is that we enjoyed your being absence.
Please help me out of this group!!!!!
*** I would be delighted to help out, if I could. Unfortunately I don't have the keys to the cell-block where you have been held prisoner. But I thought you got the boot once. Did you sneak in again like the 'nirgot' you must be? That would be understandable. As the 'proboson' goes, "swre nere swr porkiti, kukure nere sai, jar ji porkiti, morilew logote jai'.
>I begged everyone, I did everything I could to get out of this stupid site but to no avail.
*** Tsk, tsk! My heart goes out for you. I am sure other netters' too. But I think you did not beg hard enough. You need to grovel at the feet of the warden
with tail firmly tucked between hind legs. Try that, you might get lucky.
> Everytime I log in, I get whole lot of shit in my mails.
*** Again, that too is understandable. What did you expect? A gourmet meal?
'Bawna hoi sondroloi hat melise apuni'.Obviously you have been getting what you deserve, don't you realize?
>I dont know who has all the time to write so much shit and that also so frequently.
*** Yes, we understand. With your obviously confined and underexposed upbringing
no one would expect you to know any better. I would suggest you stop wondering about such deep and mysterious topics. Why bring on headaches unnecessarily?
That would be like the complaint of 'muror bix' from a 'mur naikia'.
>I am requesting you `cause I get the maximum mails from you and one more cranky guy named Ram Sarangapani.
*** Have you considered offering an appropriate kind of 'puja' to us? With the right amount of dokkhina, we might consider pleading your case to the powers that be.
>Next time I get one more mail, I will make sure that you all guys get to hear the choicest of gaalis and that too in assamese.
*** Is that a promise or a threat?
>So if you want to spareyourself, get that stupid admintrator of your site tolook into it.
*** See the para above.
Thank you once again.
*** Don't mention it. The pleasure is all mine.
>And by the way, please have a check on the trash you guys write sitting in US of which HELL.
*** Looks like you need some help with language skills too. But again, with the right kind of 'dokkhina', we might consider helping you.
>I never knew you guys in US had so much of free time.
*** You lean something everyday, don't you? See you are making progress. Why do you think they call the US the land of milk and honey? And ghee too.
>Do something better instead of all that crap
*** Ordinarily I might ask someone making such suggestions as to what might be better? But in your case, I should not burden you with anything that might
send you off to the deep end. I think you need your head examined. Our Goru Daktor, Tilok from DogPatch, could do you wonders. If you want I will be pleased to refer you to him.
cm
At 8:44 AM -0800 3/9/05, pranab saloi wrote:
Dear Chan Mahanta Please help me out of this group!!!!! I am sick of it. I just logged into it once by mistake and now its not leaving me. I begged everyone, I did everything I could to get out of this stupid site but to no avail. Its blocking my inbox like hell!!! Everytime I log in, I get whole lot of shit in my mails. I dont know who has all the time to write so much shit and that also so frequently. I guess you all guys out there have no jobs except writing stupid mails. So please spare me and get me out of it. I am requesting you `cause I get the maximum mails from you and one more cranky guy named Ram Sarangapani. Please help me!!!!! Next time I get one more mail, I will make sure that you all guys get to hear the choicest of gaalis and that too in assamese. So if you want to spare yourself, get that stupid admintrator of your site to look into it. Thank you once again. Bye. And by the way, please have a check on the trash you guys write sitting in US of which HELL. I never knew you guys in US had so much of free time. Do something better instead of all that crap Pranab --- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> scandalousThis is a juicy one :-).
cm
Goa - a Symbol of Wider Malaise Inder Malhotra
What has gone on in Goa over the last few days is a shame not only on that tiny and notoriously unstable State but also on the country as a whole, especially on its political class. To say this does not absolve the actors in the sordid drama in Panaji from blame, but the depressing fact remains that the Goa goings-on are a symbol of a wider and deeper disease afflicting the entire polity. Sadly, the way things are going the chronic malaise looks like becoming incurable.
To put the matter bluntly, every political party, big or small, without any exception whatsoever, has become the perpetrator of a twofold perversion of the democratic system. In the first place, all political parties have conspired to destroy any respect for rule of law, constitutional niceties and political proprieties. The objective of each one of them is to win the election, by hook or by crook, and having done so to hold on to power any way it can. Consequently, by a cruel quirk of irony, the ruling doctrine of the world's largest democracy has boiled down to the monstrosity that, as in love and war, everything is fair in the struggle for power.
The second element in the political perversity is the unfailing adherence by every political formation to double standards. When in the Opposition, every party pretends to be high-minded about democratic norms and their inevitable violation by the ruling party or combination. But when in office and power, the same party or set of parties does exactly the opposite of what it preaches during its years in the wilderness.
Witness the loud protests by the BJP leaders, headed by the party president, Mr LK Advani, against the "murder of democracy" in Goa and their exhortation to the people across the country to rise against this "crime." Equally remarkably, the Congress that had raised hell against similar actions by the BJP-led Government in New Delhi in the past is busy justifying its ugly action in Goa. Indeed, it is cursing the Goa BJP for having "thrown to the winds" all democratic values and conventions.
This having been said, it must be added that the> newly appointeddevelopments in Goa are not without a specific flavour of their own. For one thing, Goa has disproved as complete nonsense the widespread belief that the phenomenon of aya Rams and gaya Rams or the brisk sale and purchase of legislators is confined to States like Haryana, Bihar or UP that are illiterate, caste-ridden, poor and known for cosy partnership between criminals and politicians. Here is Goa, with 98 per cent rate of literacy and a relatively high standard of living, and yet its political record is as abysmal as that of BIMARU States.
Indeed, in some respects the performance of Goa's politicians is worse. In Bihar, for instance, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav has ruled for 15 years either directly or by proxy from behind his wife's Chief Ministerial chair. In Goa, during the same period, there have been 15 different ministries. The underlying reason is the precarious balance between the two principal parties - the Congress and the BJP - compounded by the proclivities of splinter parties and Independents to make hay while the sun shines. As so many have already underscored, the previous Ministry was brought down by the self-same Mr Manohar Parrikar, the dismissed Chief Minister who is busy decrying his unfair removal. An IIT graduate, he had a rather good reputation so far, especially compared to the> kind of misuse ofChief Minister, Mr Pratap Singh Rane, but no longer. For, Mr Parrikar has been an unabashed accomplice in the gross political and constitutional wrong committed by the Speaker, Mr Vishwas Satwarkar. To say that the manner in which Mr Satwarkar first threw out an MLA and then so manipulated the proceedings as to reduce the "floor test" of Mr Parrikar's majority to a farce would be the understatement of the decade.
So far, so bad, and one can even understand the Congress party's indignation against Mr Satwarkar. But nothing can be more ridiculous than the Congress' absurd claim that after the Speaker had committed the "original sin," the Goa Governor, Mr SC Jamir, only "did his duty" in instantly sacking Mr Parrikar and swearing in the Congress party's Mr Rane as Chief Minister. The period of a whole month given to new CM to cobble a majority seems rather generous, compared with the Governor's earlier insistence that Mr Parrikar could not be given 72 hours to prove his majority in the legislature and that this exercise should be completed within 48 hours.
The role of the Central leadership of the Congress and that of the Union Government has also been dubious and deplorable. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that at every step the Goa Governor appeared to be acting at New Delhi's dictates, as always in the past whenever the ruling party at the Centre has chosen to oust a State government of a different party or combination. The presence of the Union Minister, Mr Priya Ranjan Das Munshi at the Raj Bhavan in Panaji all through the Goa vaudeville speaks for itself.
It is also obvious that some legal brains were hard at work in devising the plan to remove Mr Parrikar. For had Mr Jamir taken recourse to Article 356 to get rid of the BJP-led Goa Ministry, the Union Government and the Congress would almost certainly have courted double trouble. One, to get the proclamation under this Article approved by the Rajya Sabha could have been problematic. Secondly, and more importantly, the Supreme Court would have immediately invalidated the Governor's action because it runs palpably counter to the apex court's long-standing judgement in the Bommai case.
The Governor's invocation of Article 164 of the Constitution and withdrawal of his "pleasure" from the Parrikar Ministry is also an arbitrary violation of the Constitution. But so far the higher judiciary has had no occasion to adjudicate thisthe Governor's powers. The Congress is thus smug in the=== message truncated ===
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