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> 3. Volume 33, Issue No 9, June 2005 published (ASA Newsletter)
> 4. Re: From ToI -conversions (Chan Mahanta)
> 5. Congrats. (Chan Mahanta)
> 6. USA-Assamese get-together - 2005 (Alpana B. Sarangapani)
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> 8. RE: Congrats. (Alpana B. Sarangapani)
> 9. Deuta -Sentinel/Rupanjali Baruah (Ram Sarangapani)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Assam] From ToI -conversions
>To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I assume you realize you are muddling (or trying to)
>muddle issues. Your question was one of specific
>instances. You have them there.
>
>
>
>--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >In Kohima, the sole Hindu temple was brought down
> > with
> > >total connivance of the local government, police
> > and
> > >offcourse the mobs. LK Advani was enraged. I think
> > >this was last year.
> >
> >
> > **** What happened to the laws of the land that
> > ought to prevent such things?
> >
> > Could not LKA, as the leader of the opposition or
> > the shadow PM, go
> > to Kohima to prevent it? Was his stature of no
> > consequence? Where did
> > them Christians get such UN-Indian, un-secular
> > ideas? I am outraged!
> >
> >
> >
> > > >And there are offcourse systemic injustices
> > >perpetrated against the Riyangs in Mizoram because
> > >they are Hindus.
> >
> >
> > *** How very un-Hindu, un_Indian acts. There oughtta
> > be a law!
> >
> >
> > >It would be laughable idea if someone says there is
> > no
> > >Christian hegemony in some of the states.
> >
> >
> > *** Amazing! Imagine religious hegemony and
> > bigotries in India, the
> > secular democracy the world is attempting to
> > emulate!
> >
> >
> > I bet the way to fix it will be to impose Hinduism
> > as the State
> > Religion of India. That ought to teach them n
> > minorities a lesson.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 9:46 AM -0700 6/30/05, Rajib Das wrote:
> > >Let me specifically answer the question C'da has
> > >raised:
> > >
> > >In Kohima, the sole Hindu temple was brought down
> > with
> > >total connivance of the local government, police
> > and
> > >offcourse the mobs. LK Advani was enraged. I think
> > >this was last year.
> > >
> > >Pashupatinath Mandir in Senapati district of
> > Manipur
> > >was burnt down in 1995 by the NSCN.
> > >
> > >And there are offcourse systemic injustices
> > >perpetrated against the Riyangs in Mizoram because
> > >they are Hindus.
> > >
> > >Maybe when I have some more time, I will come out
> > with
> > >a longer list. You could google and find out the
> > >truths about some of these.
> > >
> > >It would be laughable idea if someone says there is
> > no
> > >Christian hegemony in some of the states. It would
> > be
> > >even more laughable if some one says the Church
> > does
> > >not bless such "atrocities".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> >I would suggest that she also make a trip to
> > the
> > >> North East -
> > >> >Meghalaya, >Tripura or Mizoram and see how
> > Hindus
> > >> are treated there
> > >> >by the tribal > Christians.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> **** How are Hindus treated there? I never
> > heard of
> > >> harassment of
> > >> Hindus in the NE Christian areas before. Can you
> > >> refer us to some
> > >> credible source?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> At 4:44 PM +0100 6/30/05, umesh sharma wrote:
> > >> >C-da,
> > >> >
> > >> >I find it absurd that she was sent a FAX to
> > >> threaten her. Perhaps
> > >> >VHP has gone nuts. The rape threat was made by
> > >> Hindus - no doubt -
> > >> >but by anonymous phone call. Anyone of the
> > Hindus
> > >> in Orissa could
> > >> >have made the call - maybe even the Christian
> > >> missionaries or their
> > >> >evangelist supporters.
> > >> >
> > >> >That said, I do not approve of threats or acts
> > of
> > >> physical violence
> > >> >. I do belive in countering evangelists'
> > aggresive
> > >> christianization
> > >> >by free competition to win co-religionists.
> > Even
> > >> today I was singled
> > >> >out to be given some pamphalet on Jesus in the
> > bus
> > >> - no white person
> > >> >was offered.
> > >> >
> > >> >I would suggest that she also make a trip to
> > the
> > >> North East -
> > >> >Meghalaya, Tripura or Mizoram and see how
> > Hindus
> > >> are treated there
> > >> >by the tribal Christians.
> > >> >
> > >> >Umesh
> > >> >
> > >> >Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >'Sangh Parivar activists threatened to rape us'
> > >> >VIJI SUNDARAM
> > >> >
> > >> >INDIAWEST[ THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005 10:36:22 AM
> > ]
> > >> >Surf 'N' Earn -Sign innow
> > >> >San Francisco-based academic Angana Chatterji,
> > >> along with other women
> > >> >members of the Indian People's Tribunal on
> > >> Environment and Human
> > >> >Rights, was allegedly threatened with rape by
> > some
> > >> members of the
> > >> >Sangh Parivar on June 14 while investigating
> > the
> > >> spread of
> > >> >communalism and human rights violations in
> > Orissa.
> > >> >
> > >> >The women claim they were defamed, insulted and
> > >> falsely accused of
> > >> >bias as they were deposing residents of
> > >> Bhubaneswar, some from the
> > >> >Sangh Parivar itself.
> > >> >
> > >> >"The Hindu nationalist organizations (Bajrang
> > Dal,
> > >> Vishwa Hindu
> > >> >Parishad and Rashtriya Sevika Samiti) have
> > maligned
> > > > and targeted the
> > >> >Tribunal and its members," wrote Chatterji in a
> > >> letter to India's
> > >> >National Human Righ! ts Commission, calling for
> > an
> > >> investigation. ". .
> > >> >. Especially, they have continued to directly
> > >> intimidate and verbally
> > >> >attack me since the incident, as I remain in
> > Orissa
> > >> for a few days to
> > >> >continue the Tribunal's work."
> > >> >
> > >> >The Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and
> > >> Human Rights was
> > >> >formed June 5, 1993. Its stated purpose is to
> >
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Assam] From ToI -conversions
>To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ram Sarangapani
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [email protected]
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> > But I was flabbergasted by Rajib's righteous and
> > straight faced
> > citation of LKA's outrage at the Kohima temple
> > demolition, coloring
> > my response.
>
>Now, now! LKA was an addendum to the main news. There
>is no righteousness on my part. It is just information
>for you to consume. In Kohima, the Nagas brought down
>a temple and LKA was outraged. That was news.
>
>I understand you needed to color your response based
>on the fact that facts were being produced for you.
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: ASA Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Assam] Volume 33, Issue No 9, June 2005 published
>To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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>Hello esteemed porhuixokol,
>
>Volume 33, Issue No 9, June 2005 of the Newsletter has been published. This
>our 21st consecutive monthly publication. Thank you for your patronage during
>this time.
>
>The newsletter can be downloaded from
>http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~kalita/june2005.pdf . The table of contents is given
>below:
>
>Jitun Sonowal to Perform in Florida during Assam 2005 1
>Sanchayita's The Passage to be Screened in Assam 2005! 2
>Assamese in Leadership Hall of Fame in South Dakota 2
>Ganesh Bora Nominated for a Prestigious Award 3
>Bihu dance performed by our kids at Vasamtotsava 3
>Lecture cum Demonstration on Bihu Songs of Assam 3
>Abani Hazarika: The Unsung Hero of Assam's Cricket World
>Gay Marriage 5
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Satyam Bhuyan (Ames, Iowa), Ganesh Bora (Lake Alfred, Florida), Prasenjit
>Chetia (Atlanta, Georgia), Babul Gogoi (New Delhi, India), Jugal Kalita
>(Colorado Springs, Colorado, Editor-In-Chief), Symanta Saikia (Wichita,
>Kansas), Vavani Sarmah (Secane, Pennsylvania), Ujjal Pathak (Baton Rouge,
>Louisiana), Rini Kakati (London, UK), Umesh Sharma (Cambridge,
>Massachusetts), and Ram Sarangapani (Houston, Texas)
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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:07:55 -0500
> From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Assam] From ToI -conversions
>To: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ram Sarangapani
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Now, now! LKA was an addendum to the main news. There
> >is no righteousness on my part. It is just information
> >for you to consume. In Kohima, the Nagas brought down
> >a temple and LKA was outraged. That was news.
>
>
>Did you notice anything in that news that perhaps something is terribly amiss?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At 12:41 PM -0700 6/30/05, Rajib Das wrote:
> > > But I was flabbergasted by Rajib's righteous and
> >> straight faced
> >> citation of LKA's outrage at the Kohima temple
> >> demolition, coloring
> >> my response.
> >
> >Now, now! LKA was an addendum to the main news. There
> >is no righteousness on my part. It is just information
> >for you to consume. In Kohima, the Nagas brought down
> >a temple and LKA was outraged. That was news.
> >
> >I understand you needed to color your response based
> >on the fact that facts were being produced for you.
> >
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>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:23:18 -0500
> From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Assam] Congrats.
>To: Ganesh C Bora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>Hi Ganesh:
>
>Hearty congratulations on your being a finalist in the best graduate
>research project of the Am. Soc. of Agricultural Engineers of USA and
>Canada.
>
>It is a remarkable achievement, and we are very proud of you.
>
>Best,
>
>c-da
>
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>
>Message: 6
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:38:51 -0500
> From: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Assam] USA-Assamese get-together - 2005
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>Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:58:16 -0400
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>Subject: [Assam] Video news from A1 Bollywood Music - SmasHits from
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>Message: 8
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:16:34 -0500
> From: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Assam] Congrats.
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>Message: 9
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:33:01 -0500
> From: Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Assam] Deuta -Sentinel/Rupanjali Baruah
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>Just wanted to share this wonderful piece by Ms. Baruah. Those of us
>who still have our Dueta/Ma with us, should cherish every moment, and
>those that don't, this piece should bring back fond memories.
>
>--Ram
>
>
>Deuta
>Rupanjali Baruah
>
>He lay face up on a bed in one corner of a hospital room. Deuta was
>then on an endless trial with pricks of needles while the blood cake
>dried on his scalp and his bones ached to rest in his own room. In
>fact, he had been preparing to fall asleep for several hours but
>something did not let him. It was probably the harsh glare of a bulb
>that tugged at his eyelids. He was already on his way inside a dark
>aisle that would soon lead him out of the trappings of plaster and
>pins to an altar where many fruits were piled on top of the other as
>offerings. He tried to pronounce his name, Nagen, the five simple
>letters would not come easily to his lips. His lips felt too dry at
>the edges, he could do with a sip of cold water if someone would get
>him. It was a wise thought but he did not know how he was to put that
>into words for others to understand. A red blanket wrapped him, his
>hands lay on either side solemnly acknowledging the many wounds of
>needles on him. He was unwilling to raise his fingers to point at
>something. He sank more and more into solitude where his thoughts were
>soon to become too intricate to decipher. He did not understand a word
>of what he was saying, only his lips moved awkwardly to indicate that
>he was still breathing.
>
>The dates are all false to him, Deuta could be at any time at any
>place now. It did not matter to him. He lost his calm suddenly in the
>early morning and muttered something about a smell of grease in the
>air. He had stumbled several steps a day before this had happened to
>him. Earlier, it would have mattered to him a lot if he did not get a
>matter straight in good time. Now time came in between to distance him
> from the rest of us. He wore a solemn look on the face that had once
>resonated with details of beautiful memories. Now we stood around to
>gather the last remnants of that past from his feeble ramblings, those
>memories now have different place names for him. His uncertain days
>were then struggling with the snares of earth.
>
>A few weeks before we could not take him out of the confinements of
>his bed, he loved to remain there almost the whole of a day, and night
>had seemed to him the best part because no one would then ask him to
>stay awake. And he would refuse to get out of his pale pair of pyjamas
>since they fell softly on his thin frame. He would turn away from the
>dishes of food; he nibbled reluctantly at the single piece of fried
>fish or an arrowroot biscuit and would say that he was full already.
>Small noises annoyed him much, just as the loud bellow of the cows
>downstairs for their midday meal or the irregular cawing of crows
>shook him easily out of sleep. He would keep a woolen shawl like a
>cowl over his head to keep out some thought that perhaps hovered over
>him. He seemed to be pursued by several ghosts of men, long dead and
>he would say with a little reproach that some voices bothered him at
>regular intervals. Sometimes he would let out a cry of alarm and when
>Ma would rush to his side he would ask with tears in his eyes "have
>you found them, where are they?" To us it was a mere thought in
>passing but it was a different texture of fear that showed as goose
>bumps on his skin. Someone had told us that these are ominous signals,
>we should be prepared for something though we would not be flattered
>by the ingenuity of such a discovery that seemed to stand on the edge
>of absurdity. We would rather not know it.
>
>Some nine nights were then left for our leave taking. Though none of
>us knew it. Death does not arrive with a siren of warning though some
>say that a date is assigned for everybody. Some die without being
>aware of it. Some die waiting too long for it, some with
>disappointments for leaving behind too many unfinished things. I
>wonder if any of these happened to Deuta. His memories left him too
>quickly, we became mere strange faces though he seemed quite familiar
>when he conversed at length about certain daily happenings. He forgot
>to raise a whimper of a complaint when his cup of tea was not too hot
>on his lips. His thoughts had drifted, wandering already beyond our
>habitation, the ties of affection became unknown things though his
>eyes would open hesitatingly looking for the familiar feel of our
>hands on him.
>
>The blood looked blue under his skin, I did not wish to think that
>very soon it would stop flowing. The only thing I had asked God for
>several years since the day I had seen the father of a friend pass
>away, that I should predecease my own Deuta to save myself from the
>agony of living without him and I had believed that God would listen
>and truly concede. A selfish thought may be, but very natural as I now
>come to think of it. In spite of my repeated pleas to God, Deuta left
>as I stood waiting at the gate for him to return; he returned though
>wrapped in a white shroud, I thought it would stifle him. I did not
>wish to be told that he would not be breathing. He had left his last
>breath so far away in a hospital room.
>
>I have survived one whole year without him. Strange it seems to
>believe. He looks at me now and always from two different photographs
>in his room that are the remaining semblances of Deuta to me. I often
>stagger as I see his room, full of all his other things that stare at
>me. This too is so hard to believe. I am yet to arrive at the
>beginning of that preparation to believe it.
>
>
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