At present however Assam is not an independent country although many
kharkhwas wish it were.
*** What is your wish?
Please don't ask me for my wish. Normally I donot live in the 'wish
world". However if I have to wish for anything, I would say why you need
indepnedent Assam? Let there be no craving for TEA and let there be
advanced technology so that we can drive our cars from the SUN's energy and all
the oil technology stopped automatically, let the land of Bangladesh rise 100 ft
above the sea level so that for the next 1000 years they donot have flood,
let the Brahmaputra reset its pre 1950 course so that Assam donot have any
flood, let the climate of India change and make the land of India be fertile
everywhere. This will practically mean there would not
be any immigrants to Assam any more as there would not be
anything to exploit, and the kharkhwa Assamese live happily ever after with
Bihu and Husori. What do you say.?
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Assam Digest,
Vol 21, Issue 64
At 10:56 AM -0500 6/10/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
Question is it a contest?
If yes,
then are you playing like Golf game so that states who donot have
resources should be given some kind of handicap from resourceful states so
that all states will develop equally?
*** I am?
For Assam to control all its resources, it
should be an independent kingdom.
*** You mean like the super-kingdom of India, who has a natural born
rights to it, while others don't?
At present however Assam is not an
independent country although many kharkhwas wish it were.
*** What is your wish?
Till then Assam will have to share its
rsources with the poor states I think, what do you say?
*** Interesting reasoning here. I am not much for economics, maybe
Santanu can enlighten us here, but is this the kind of free market competition
that all these NRAs advocate, where the competitors are, at the same time,
required to share their resources with those who don't have them?
It surely sounds like a novel idea. I am small businessman, and I have to
compete doggedly against numerous others in my field to get a piece of the
action, many with a lot more resources than I could ever muster. Since I am
disadvantaged, maybe, pursuant to this novel economic theory, I should demand
and get a share of the resources from those who have a whole lot more than I
do, so that I can compete better.
What do you say ?
I don't think I should say what I really think about the idea. It would
be unbecoming :-).
If Assam wants to control its reources ,
things would have been so much easier if simply Assam would have asked for
separate indendence from th British in 1947. Too bad for the kharkhwas that
they went with India like a litikai and opened its resources to be exploited
by the Marwaris and other Indians.
*** Does it mean it is too late? That once given under certain agreed on
principles, even if the conditions are violated, the contract is for
ever?
Sounds to me like more novel ideas about contracts and agreements.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen
Barua ; partha patawari
; [email protected] ;
Chan Mahanta
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: Assam Digest, Vol 21, Issue
64
At 9:47 AM -0500 6/10/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
> I have
always wondered if Assam started at the same starting line
> with
TN or Andhra
If we consider it
as a contest,
*** If it is a contest, then why does not Assam have controls
over its resources?
And why does it have to be a contest?
Why do we complain if someone compares India with Singapore or
the USA ?
For instance, if we
started with say 50 years lag behind Gujarat in 1947, the
kharkhwas should not complian if the present lag is 50 years or
less.
*** Why not? Who had the right to sell off Assam's resources
to Gujaratis and Marwaris at throwaway prices?
may be we should use a more user friendly set of yard
sticks. May be instead of distance travelled (by a State),
we should use terms like say 'speed' etc so that we will know if we
are maintaining the same lag that we started with. For instance, if
we started with say 50 years lag behind Gujarat in 1947,
the kharkhwas should not complian if the present lag is 50 years or
less. However if we find that we are lagging today say 75 years behind
Gujarat, then will be legitimate for the kharkhwas to complain and cry,
and we will know that we need to speed
up.
The other option is
to use an absolute scale for progress just listing what we need and why,
and trying to avhieve those.
Rajen
.
----- Original Message
-----
From: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "partha patawari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:38
AM
Subject: [Assam] Re: Assam Digest,
Vol 21, Issue 64
> > >YOU know that
states like Tamil
> >Nadu and |Karnataka has left us far behind
in the
> >development process.
>
>
>
>
*** This is a recurrent complaint in Assam Net.
>
> I have
always wondered if Assam started at the same starting line
> with
TN or Andhra or what have you, and if the astute judges of this
>
race are aware of the starting line configuration, or they just
made
> up the verdict to validate their own preconceived but
faulty notions?
> My question:" Is it a contest on a level-playing
field?" using the
> words of other oh-so-fairminded netters :-) or
is it a contest at
all?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
At 3:04 AM -0700 6/10/05, partha patawari wrote:
> >hi
friends,
>
> i
am really sorry if my views on the
> >communication skills of
our Honourable Chief Minister
> >has hurt some of you guys. I
agree to your views that
> >few CMs of India like Karunanidhi
or jayalalitha
> >doesnt speak in english in front of the media
but my
> >views were not meant for showing disgrace to the
CM
> >but what i wanted to put forward to you guys was
the
> >development process.YOU know that states like
Tamil
> >Nadu and |Karnataka has left us far behind in
the
> >development process. Why our state graduated
engineers
> >has to leave for bangalore or chennai for job?
the
> >answer is quite simple. there is no industry in
our
> >state. even if tamil nadu CM doesnt speak in
english
> >industries are still flowing in. all we want
is
> >development and nothing else we are leeast
interested
> >in whetherhe speaks in assamese hindi or english
thats
> >it
> > chal bye
>
>partha
> >
> >
> >
>
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