[Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-23 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
Illegal immigration  and  using  illegal immigrants for political mileage is not soemthing which  is exclusive to India or specific parties. There are millions of illegal immigrants (mostly hispanic) in US (is the US government dysfunctional,  unresponsive, incapable  ? )  who work in menial

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Neither group ought to be encouraged - specially by MLAs You are such a nice person Ram, you scare me :-). The only thing left now is about what they OUGHT to do. And if they don't do what they ought to, who should be the next line of defense? If we had to go by yesterday's Sentinel

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, You are such a nice person Ram, you scare me :-). I have always maintained a B'deshi is a 'B'deshi, and India cannot have one policy for one kind and a different one for the other. The problem is whenever the illegal B'deshi problem is brought up, JUST like these MLAs wanting special

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Maybe, they are the last hopes of a stagnant and moribund society, and it needs students to rescue it from all kinds of problems. *** You keep getting it wrong Ram. It IS about making the state, the governmental machinery FUNCTIONAL, accountable! Of course that is easier said than done. If

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-21 Thread uttam borthakur
Three MPs and two MLAs of the Assam Unit of BJP have lodged a demand to grant citizenship to Hindu-Bengalis migrating from Bangladesh. They are Ms. Bijoya Chakrabarty, Kabindra Purkayastha, Rajen Gohain, Mission Ranjan Das and Sushil Dutta. They have disclosed it in press meet on 21 August at

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-21 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Hi Uttam, Don't know what the deal is, but to me illegal Hindu B'deshis are no different from illegal Muslim B'deshis. Neither group ought to be encouraged - specially by MLAs --Ram da On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, uttam borthakur uttambortha...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Three MPs and two

[Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-20 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Bikash Sarmah has given a good synopsis of this problem. Quite often (and in this net too), a demand or a desire to solve the illegal Bangladeshis problem in Assam is promptly cast as communal. This is unfortunate, Assamese Muslims or bonafide Bengali residents of Assam are equally affected by

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-20 Thread Chan Mahanta
But is the Assam youth concerned? Is he informed by the reality of the problem? Does he realize the gravity of the situation? Can he foresee who might preside over his destiny in the near future? Does he know who are the kingmakers in his State? *** What I am curious about is what has the

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-20 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, *** IF, the people , not the select groups of bad people, don't care and employ B'deshis, it means there IS a need for it and they don't care whether they wear scull-caps or lungis. Should they be excoriated for that, calkled names, because certain elites or other such 'groups' do? It is

Re: [Assam] s the Assam Youth Really Concerned? - a Column in the Assam Sentinel

2010-08-20 Thread Chan Mahanta
Ram: I think, just like here, some kind of national ID system can be implemented. Everyone carries one, and to acquire one, it would require certain documents be presented. It is easy to say, but I think, if there is will by both the Center the State, and there is an inclination by the