[Assam] for Mukul-da: Australian Crocodile hunter dies
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060905-irwin.html http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=8da289a6-e79c-4bf9-881a-7c40790de380&k=87809 The country's parliamentarians pay homage to a guy who roamed the beaches (even amidst the clothing optional ones) to preserve environment. Love for nature seems to be as important a virtue as education of the school kids? UmeshUmesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] IE: Will shedding burqa end bias?
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/12102.html Only 16% Hindu women and 11% Muslim women are in the workforce .Umesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana , Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree more
Rajen-da, Housewives run the risk of having broken marriages too -who cheat with the gardner, plumber, milkman (in India) and whose husbands cheat with their secretaries in their offices. The housewives are the real slaves -since they are not even allowed to check out what their husbands do when they are out of the home. See "Desperate Housewives" TV serial for housewifery info -I've only read about it , though. Housewives run greater risk of ending as prostitutes -if and when their husbands dump them or they become widowed. So women should not marry men who want them to become housewives -- thats what data would project. Pl see this rebuttal of the article in ET: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/1959670.cms UmeshBarua25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Umesh: The article written by Michael Noe is discussing basically that marrying a Career woman is not good for the marriage as the article says "Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women--even those with a "feminist" outlook--are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner." This is true not only in the West but everywhere even in countries like India and China where it will be gradually more as we are also trying to come up to the Western level. I fail to see any media biasness. I think you are confusing Professional women with regular housewives who have to work hard for the family. Your statement: In many cases such women leave their husbands and take up new ones ... goes to prove that working women run the risk of having broken marriage as the article says. RB- Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: Rajen & Ajanta Barua ; assam@assamnet.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana , Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree moreRajen-da, The bias is the very fact such an issue is being debated in top US magazines. Do they still debate the issue that Blacks are geneticaly inferior and that their heads are not big enough to fit mature human brain. I'm told Watson and Crick -who unravleed the DNA structure and Nobel Laureates used to do just that. They were biased if they did that. If media does that -it is biased. About Indian or Chinese or African or Latin American or native American women engaging in outdoor work -why is it slave labor? They have the freedom to work. They get paid for their work . They can work even if their husbands die or leave them - I have seen quite a few such working women. They can riase their children etc on their earnings. Where is the slavery in that? In many cases such women leave their husbands and take up new ones -- there's the modernity you were seeking perhaps. Regards. UmeshRajen & Ajanta Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. Umesh: I see the point in the aticle but failed to see the bias in the media in the west. Am I missing something. RB >In villages and the poor in India etc women do most of the work -in the fields, as housemaids, as construction workers - they are career women. These women in India and China are not Career women, thay are like slave labours. Women do most of the work in Asia in the house and field plus raise the children, and men just sit an enjoy. RB- Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:13 PM Subject: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana ,Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree morehttp://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/24forbes1.htm Hi, This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. This sick mentality has no basis in nature. female tigers and females of other species have killed prey and provided for their young ones -they are career females in that sense. Many famous career women have long standing non-famous husbands -such as Indian Police Officer Kiran Bedi, Julia Roberts the Hollywood actor . However, traditionally there has been demand for "trophy wives" by well placed bachelors (beautiful, cultured etc) as seen in young teens wearing T-shirts saying "A future trophy wife" -in the West also. Also the Western media promotes most eligible bachelors in the traditional way - rich and famous-period. Not as g
Re: [Assam] Canada's extremes: Seal fights, clothing optional beaches; celibate Bahai youth
Mukul-da, why should I not go to a beach next to where I am staying and try to go somewhere far away just becos the local populace find it wise to take of their clothes :-) Do Hindus etc stop roaming around Maha Kumbha just becos a few Naga (Nanga) Sadhus are camping there without clothes? Most I can do is not follow their example. Umeshmc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:view the scenary once again and see the natural elements of Canadian landscape which perhaps inspired Canada based Deepa Mehta to make sexually charged , extremely controversial (in India) films like Fire, Earth and Water. > Umesh , you are tending to go off course.
Think of how you will blend your Canadian, Ba'hai,Human experience in your Autobiography... Are you keeping your diary meticulously. Beauty-Scenery-you will find everywhere. mm From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Canada's extremes: Seal fights, clothing optional beaches;celibate Bahai youthDate: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:48:15 +0100 (BST)Hi, Yesterday was a holiday in Canada so I wanted to explore the sea front down from the
Univ ( www.ubc.ca ) where I am staying and saw the huts of the Native Americans who live on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to here. http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04sep02/forestry.html Then saw a flight of steps leading down to the ocean front but was curious about two things : One that seal pups are around and that clothing is optional (illegal in USA) . http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/PacificSpirit.htm Down below most were dressed somewhat but few were in baby-suits mainly guys strutting their stuff. This is a very gay-firendly city I'm told -so seemed like gays .
Thus, Initially after sitting for a few minutes I turned to go back up the steps but seeing the breath-taking view I of the sea I returned to walk about two hours. Damn these chaps - the nature is from others as well. I might be the only South Asian around (I saw lots of them in the Univ swimming pool later) but I am not going to let them cheat me out of the nature. On the map I got down at trail 4 on top left and walked on roacks and sea to the breakwater opp. trail six -and about 200 yards on the breakwater rocks out in the sea -with slippers in my hand clambering over rocks -all alone - where I saw the seals with fish in their mouth fighting with each other http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/maps/Pacificspiritmap.pdf (Trail map)
(like dogs snatching bread from each other or like kites snatching pakoras in the sky) in the sea -just a few feet from me . Ofcourse, after seeing a few nude females as well (there were children as well) those in bikinis and swim-suits seemed like nuns. Nonetheless it was less dramatic than one sees in pics etc -no illegal activities I mean :-) I did see quite a few East Asians here. Mostly giggling clothed girls avoiding looking at the naked white guys deliberately facing them. I stood out like a sore thumb or like James Bond - in full formals -Raymond ("the complete man") tailored full sleeved white striped shirt , wrinkle resistant cotton gray tailored pants-all from India. Actually these were my last unsoiled clothes since my T-shirts and Jeans had been put
in the paid washing machines yesterday. I was wading in the sea -since there were only cliffs in most places and barefoot over rocks going out into the sea -like a jetty of sorts. Anyhow an Indian esp a Hindu/Jains can draw solace in the ancient traiditons of India where Naked Sadhus and Naked dieties -both male and female are revered. So a natural place does not necessariliy have to be the haunt of baser people aping the bulls and cows in Indian streets - only in their body language etc no action. Anyhow it is a challenge one has top face -like going to worship the divine in a Khajuraho temple with its erotic imagery on the outside (I have never been to Khajuraho). However, I would like to view the scenary once again and see the natural elements of Canadian landscape which perhaps inspired Canada based Deepa Mehta to make sexually charged , extremely controversial (in India) films like Fire, Earth and
Water. I did visit a city based beach/sea front last week with my Harvard classmate , her mother, her husband, their child - where people seemed more civilized. It is a like an Indian city with no flyovers, no metro-trams-subways --only cosy rolling roads around the mountain backed sea bay --like Udaipur -the City of Lakes in India. It might surprise many that Bahai followers including my classmate and her husband, and their parents have to take a vow of chastity (till marriage) and abstinence from alchohol and smoking. They met while studying at Vancouver Island's Bahia school http://www.maxwell.bc.ca/index.php I did mention my visit
Re: [Assam] US court retains flawed Hinduism textbooks - HT/Indo-Asian News
Dear Ramda, I saw your highlighted portion ..."textbooks that presented the debunked Aryan Migration Theory as fact". I thougt Aryan Migration is a widely accepted theory ...Is this controversial? Has it been debunked? I seem to completely behing the curve on this topic. best regards Rajiv -- Original Message --Received: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:21:42 PM SGTFrom: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: AssamNet Subject: [Assam] US court retains flawed Hinduism textbooks - HT/Indo-Asian News This is interesting. Highlights are mine. ___ A California court has accepted a Hindu body's contention that some textbooks with a flawed presentation of Hinduism were approved improperly, but refused to throw them out of schools for now. A flawed approval process had resulted in textbooks that presented the debunked Aryan Migration Theory as fact, misrepresented caste as central to Hinduism and left the impression that Hinduism devalued the role of women, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) said in a press release. The California Superior Court last week upheld HAF's claim that the state School Board of Education (SBE) had followed a flawed and illegal approval process for sixth grade textbooks. But the court denied its demand that SBE be required to throw out the currently approved textbooks and revisit the entire textbook adoption process, it said. In his ruling, Judge Patrick Marlette wrote the California SBE has been conducting its textbook approval process under invalid 'underground regulations', but said the rejection of textbooks would be disruptive not only to affected sixth graders, but potentially every California public school student using any and every textbooks. So while the process followed in adopting the contentious Hinduism sections, and all recently approved textbooks in California, was illegal—as HAF had argued—the judge apparently decided against a sweeping ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits discarding textbooks in the most populous state in the US, the release said. As the immediate goal of revising textbooks was unmet, HAF attorneys are considering their options for an appeal to force revisions to the Hinduism section in the contested textbooks, it said. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] 'Assam' is an Indonesian Dish
Dear Mr Barua, There is unfortunatly no link to Oxom - though I dare say the romantics amongst us can easlily manufacture one.:). ASAM in Malay means sour. So ASAM ( or ASSAM as is now spelled) curry is a sour dish - very similar to our "tenga" though with a generous dollop of fish paste or dried fish in the real thing. Bahasa Indonesia is linguistically the same as Bahasa Melayu or Malay - so asam in Indonesia also means sour. So the dish in question is Fried (Goreng) Prawn (Udang) Sour (Asam). best regards Rajiv -- Original Message --Received: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:42:27 AM SGTFrom: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Subject: [Assam] 'Assam' is an Indonesian Dish Do you know that 'Assam' is also a popular Indonesian Dish. Heard it before but did not know what it is. Here is the recipe. Next time you go an Indonesian Restaurant, ask for it. RB RB m I am Raj from Sydney Australia & here is a recipe of a Dish which I enjoy when I travel to Bali Indonesia. Hope you like it too. E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prawns Udang Goreng Assam (Indonesian) Ingredients 350 gm Prawns with tail, peeled & deveined 60 ml Vegetable Oil 80 gm Onions cleaned & chopped. 10 gm Garlic fresh & chopped 100 ml Tamarind pulp 30 gm Lemon Grass crushed 10 gm Galangal Root or substitute with fresh Tumeric Root 5 nos Lime Leaves or substitute with Curry Leaves 2 nos Star Aniseed 10 gm Chillies Red (long) chopped 1 no Cinnamon quills whole 3 gm Cummin (jeera) seeds 100 gm diced tinned Tomatoes or peeled ripe diced tomatoes Salt & Pepper to taste Method: Remove spike but keep the tails on the prawns. Maninate in red chilli powder, salt, half the tamarind pulp, cummin seeds and corn flour & quickly deep fry in hot oil. Do not over cook as prawns turn dark. Must have good colour. Keep prawns aside. . Method for sauce: Fry chopped onions in oil with chopped garlic & sweat onions well. Add lime leaf, bashed lemon grass stalk, galanga, star anise, cinnamon quill, chopped fresh long red chilli & chunky tinned peeled tomato. Cook well & till sauce has a coarse cosistency. Season with salt & pepper. Serve prawns on hot turmeric rice or steamed jasmine rice & top with sauce on prawns & rice. Garnish with coriander sprig. home | saroj's cookbook | non-veggies | amul recipes | contributions | features | glossary | tips | mailbag | ask saroj | links You can write to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Its contents (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient you must not use, disclose, disseminate, copy or print its contents. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete and destroy the message.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana , Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree more
Umesh: The article written by Michael Noe is discussing basically that marrying a Career woman is not good for the marriage as the article says "Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women--even those with a "feminist" outlook--are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner." This is true not only in the West but everywhere even in countries like India and China where it will be gradually more as we are also trying to come up to the Western level. I fail to see any media biasness. I think you are confusing Professional women with regular housewives who have to work hard for the family. Your statement: In many cases such women leave their husbands and take up new ones ... goes to prove that working women run the risk of having broken marriage as the article says. RB - Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: Rajen & Ajanta Barua ; assam@assamnet.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana , Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree more Rajen-da, The bias is the very fact such an issue is being debated in top US magazines. Do they still debate the issue that Blacks are geneticaly inferior and that their heads are not big enough to fit mature human brain. I'm told Watson and Crick -who unravleed the DNA structure and Nobel Laureates used to do just that. They were biased if they did that. If media does that -it is biased. About Indian or Chinese or African or Latin American or native American women engaging in outdoor work -why is it slave labor? They have the freedom to work. They get paid for their work . They can work even if their husbands die or leave them - I have seen quite a few such working women. They can riase their children etc on their earnings. Where is the slavery in that? In many cases such women leave their husbands and take up new ones -- there's the modernity you were seeking perhaps. Regards. UmeshRajen & Ajanta Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. Umesh: I see the point in the aticle but failed to see the bias in the media in the west. Am I missing something. RB >In villages and the poor in India etc women do most of the work -in the fields, as housemaids, as construction workers - they are career women. These women in India and China are not Career women, thay are like slave labours. Women do most of the work in Asia in the house and field plus raise the children, and men just sit an enjoy. RB - Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:13 PM Subject: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana ,Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree more http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/24forbes1.htm Hi, This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. This sick mentality has no basis in nature. female tigers and females of other species have killed prey and provided for their young ones -they are career females in that sense. Many famous career women have long standing non-famous husbands -such as Indian Police Officer Kiran Bedi, Julia Roberts the Hollywood actor . However, traditionally there has been demand for "trophy wives" by well placed bachelors (beautiful, cultured etc) as seen in young teens wearing T-shirts saying "A future trophy wife" -in the West also. Also the Western media promotes most eligible bachelors in the traditional way - rich and famous-period. Not as good househusbands but as money earners or bread winners. Perhaps that is why the research mentioned in the above article shows that not only are many men put off by richer women (Prophet Muhammad married a richer and older woman -a widow - 1300 years ago -so most liberal?) but even women are put off by a less money earning house-husband. In villages and the poor in India etc women do most of the work -in the fields, as housema
Re: [Assam] Canada's extremes: Seal fights, clothing optional beaches; celibate Bahai youth
view the scenary once again and see the natural elements of Canadian landscape which perhaps inspired Canada based Deepa Mehta to make sexually charged , extremely controversial (in India) films like Fire, Earth and Water. >
Umesh , you are tending to go off course.
Think of how you will blend your Canadian, Ba'hai,Human experience in your Autobiography...
Are you keeping your diary meticulously.
Beauty-Scenery-you will find everywhere.
mm
From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Canada's extremes: Seal fights, clothing optional beaches;celibate Bahai youthDate: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:48:15 +0100 (BST)
Hi,
Yesterday was a holiday in Canada so I wanted to explore the sea front down from the Univ ( www.ubc.ca ) where I am staying and saw the huts of the Native Americans who live on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to here. http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04sep02/forestry.html Then saw a flight of steps leading down to the ocean front but was curious about two things : One that seal pups are around and that clothing is optional (illegal in USA) .
http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/PacificSpirit.htm
Down below most were dressed somewhat but few were in baby-suits mainly guys strutting their stuff. This is a very gay-firendly city I'm told -so seemed like gays .
Thus, Initially after sitting for a few minutes I turned to go back up the steps but seeing the breath-taking view I of the sea I returned to walk about two hours.
Damn these chaps - the nature is from others as well. I might be the only South Asian around (I saw lots of them in the Univ swimming pool later) but I am not going to let them cheat me out of the nature.
On the map I got down at trail 4 on top left and walked on roacks and sea to the breakwater opp. trail six -and about 200 yards on the breakwater rocks out in the sea -with slippers in my hand clambering over rocks -all alone - where I saw the seals with fish in their mouth fighting with each other
http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/maps/Pacificspiritmap.pdf (Trail map)
(like dogs snatching bread from each other or like kites snatching pakoras in the sky) in the sea -just a few feet from me . Ofcourse, after seeing a few nude females as well (there were children as well) those in bikinis and swim-suits seemed like nuns. Nonetheless it was less dramatic than one sees in pics etc -no illegal activities I mean :-)
I did see quite a few East Asians here. Mostly giggling clothed girls avoiding looking at the naked white guys deliberately facing them.
I stood out like a sore thumb or like James Bond - in full formals -Raymond ("the complete man") tailored full sleeved white striped shirt , wrinkle resistant cotton gray tailored pants-all from India. Actually these were my last unsoiled clothes since my T-shirts and Jeans had been put in the paid washing machines yesterday. I was wading in the sea -since there were only cliffs in most places and barefoot over rocks going out into the sea -like a jetty of sorts.
Anyhow an Indian esp a Hindu/Jains can draw solace in the ancient traiditons of India where Naked Sadhus and Naked dieties -both male and female are revered. So a natural place does not necessariliy have to be the haunt of baser people aping the bulls and cows in Indian streets - only in their body language etc no action. Anyhow it is a challenge one has top face -like going to worship the divine in a Khajuraho temple with its erotic imagery on the outside (I have never been to Khajuraho). However, I would like to view the scenary once again and see the natural elements of Canadian landscape which perhaps inspired Canada based Deepa Mehta to make sexually charged , extremely controversial (in India) films like Fire, Earth and Water.
I did visit a city based beach/sea front last week with my Harvard classmate , her mother, her husband, their child - where people seemed more civilized. It is a like an Indian city with no flyovers, no metro-trams-subways --only cosy rolling roads around the mountain backed sea bay --like Udaipur -the City of Lakes in India.
It might surprise many that Bahai followers including my classmate and her husband, and their parents have to take a vow of chastity (till marriage) and abstinence from alchohol and smoking. They met while studying at Vancouver Island's Bahia school
http://www.maxwell.bc.ca/index.php I did mention my visit later on. Some photos of our city based English Beach later on after uploading from the camera.
Any comments?
Umesh
--
Naked jain sadhus http://www.hermitary.com/articles/digambara.html
Female Indian sadhus http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/essay-07-05.html
& http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhus/sadhvi.html
Indian Sadhus http://www.tomvater.com/sadhu.html
Naked in Ashes - 2006 movie http://www.
[Assam] 'Assam' is an Indonesian Dish
Title: Bawarchi: Contributions: Prawns Udang Goreng Assam (Indonesian) Do you know that 'Assam' is also a popular Indonesian Dish. Heard it before but did not know what it is. Here is the recipe. Next time you go an Indonesian Restaurant, ask for it. RB RB m I am Raj from Sydney Australia & here is a recipe of a Dish which I enjoy when I travel to Bali Indonesia. Hope you like it too. E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prawns Udang Goreng Assam (Indonesian) Ingredients 350 gm Prawns with tail, peeled & deveined 60 ml Vegetable Oil 80 gm Onions cleaned & chopped. 10 gm Garlic fresh & chopped 100 ml Tamarind pulp 30 gm Lemon Grass crushed 10 gm Galangal Root or substitute with fresh Tumeric Root 5 nos Lime Leaves or substitute with Curry Leaves 2 nos Star Aniseed 10 gm Chillies Red (long) chopped 1 no Cinnamon quills whole 3 gm Cummin (jeera) seeds 100 gm diced tinned Tomatoes or peeled ripe diced tomatoes Salt & Pepper to taste Method: Remove spike but keep the tails on the prawns. Maninate in red chilli powder, salt, half the tamarind pulp, cummin seeds and corn flour & quickly deep fry in hot oil. Do not over cook as prawns turn dark. Must have good colour. Keep prawns aside. . Method for sauce: Fry chopped onions in oil with chopped garlic & sweat onions well. Add lime leaf, bashed lemon grass stalk, galanga, star anise, cinnamon quill, chopped fresh long red chilli & chunky tinned peeled tomato. Cook well & till sauce has a coarse cosistency. Season with salt & pepper. Serve prawns on hot turmeric rice or steamed jasmine rice & top with sauce on prawns & rice. Garnish with coriander sprig. home | saroj's cookbook | non-veggies | amul recipes | contributions | features | glossary | tips | mailbag | ask saroj | links You can write to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Its contents (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient you must not use, disclose, disseminate, copy or print its contents. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete and destroy the message. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Prof. Sanyal at 85
God bless him -he is my Guru too. Must visit him and have his blessings in his last days . Naseem Faruqui is also a great pal.He was last heard of in Malaysia. mm From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: ASSAMNET Subject: [Assam] Prof. Sanyal at 85Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:05:14 -0700 (PDT) The former students and faculty members of IIT KGP will enjoy reading the story below on Prof. Sanyal. Prof. Sanyal's link with Assam - He was born in Dhubri town. Way way back - I met Prof. Sanyal on the day of my IIT KGP interview and I was impressed. When I took his 4th year course on wave propagation, I was even more impressed, especially with the preciseness of his words. During my final year viva I got into an argument with Dr. Faruqi who kept leading me away from my area of thesis into his area of expertise. Department chairman Prof. Sanyal not only steered us back, he gave me an "A" despite my rough encounter with Dr. Faruqi - that is how fair he was to his students. I am so happy to hear that he is still active on the campus at 85. Last time I talked to him was when he was visiting USA to raise alumni money for the institute - yes, IIT KGP. Dilip FROM TOI At 85, IIT-Kgp founder-teacher is still a favourite Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey 5 Sep, 2006 KOLKATA: For 52 years IIT-Kharagpur has been his home, and it will continue to be so. Forty-nine of the 50 teachers whom the government chose to build the country's first IIT have departed, but at 85, G S Sanyal shows no sign of aging. He is not even tired, he wakes up every morning to help take the institute to a newer heights. Right from the director of the institute to the guard, Sanyal is 'sir' to everyone. And whatever the official teachers' day programme at the institute may be, the campus community unfailingly drops by to wish him on September 5. Sanyal graduated from the department of applied physics of the Calcutta University (CU) in 1943. He then joined the All India Radio and worked for it in Kolkata, Delhi and Dhaka. Thereafter, he got selected by the government for a scholarship to study electronics, radars and radios in UK, where he stayed till 1950. However, he never wanted to settle abroad and returned to join CU as a lecturer in its Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics. It was from here that he was picked up by the Jawaharlal Nehru government to join the newly-formed IIT-Kharagpur, from where he retired in 1987 as its director. But the institute was in no mood to let him go because by then Sanyal had helped his department of electronics and electrical communication engineering attain global acclaim. The institute wanted him to stay on in an advisory capacity... So from helping the institute with its new initiatives Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) and the Vinod Gupta School of Management, to designing the vision document of the institute and taking 'technology to the villages' Sanyal is the key. Moreover, he is considered to be the best teacher of electro magnetics and wireless communications in the country and has won the highest awards in the world in his subject. Ever since he retired, universities abroad have been requesting him to join them University of Florida, University of Stanford, University of California, University of San Francisco and Concordia University of Montreal, to name a few. But his affair with IIT-Kgp is far from over. "Let alone joining another institute, I even refused to join my son who lives abroad. There's much to be done at the institute here and I cannot imagine a life outside," Sanyal says, choosing to ignore his chronic pulmonary disease. Among those who will call Sanyal to wish him a happy teacher's day is S K Dube, director of the institute, who says, "Whenever there's a problem, we look up to him for a solution and believe me, he always has one. He remains students' favourite even till date, because of his wealth of knowledge. You will see a steady train of students surrounding him with their problems after classes." Most of the senior faculty members, who have been his students, agree. R V Rajakumar, who was Sanyal's student about two-and-a-half-decades back, and is now dean of the institute's academic affairs, says, "Sanyal is a wizard with his subject. I had the option of going to any IIT, I wanted to, but I chose IIT-Kgp just to be his student and to this day I am one." Another student Madhusudan Chakraborty, now deputy director of the institute, says, "His very presence is a source of comfort to all of us. He is aptly called the grand old man of IIT-Kgp >___>assam mailing list>assam@assamnet.org>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-AT
Good work by Bharali-da. It seems there are a few venture capital firms in India too -like NIT which later funded Bharali ? Umesh --- Manoj Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly > machines > *By Ajit Patowary > GUWAHATI, Sept 4 Working out the problems in a > small workshop at North > Lakhimpur town in the State's flood-ravaged > Lakhimpur district, this > 40-year-old innovation wizard has so far designed > and manufactured 40 long > sought-for machines. He is now a technical > expert-cum-role model for the > National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of the country. > > He is Uddhab Kumar Bharali, a mechanical engineer of > the 1988 batch of the > Institute of Engineers (India). He started his UKB > Agrotech, a house-machine > design and research firm, around 1992 on his own, > spending some hopeless > years running after those in the corridors of power > seeking support to set > up a machine designing-cum-training firm. His first > machine was the modern > dheki, the re-designed Assamese paddy grinder, which > could be operated by > turning a wheel. > > But to emerge as the real innovator, he had to > borrow an amount of Rs 30,000 > from a private moneylender at a monthly interest > rate of 10 per cent on the > principal amount. In the meantime, he had to > shoulder the burden of a family > loan of Rs 11 lakh. With the amount he borrowed, he > developed the green > arecanut-peeling machine in 2001. > > Bharali had to accept the challenge of developing > the arecanut peeler thrown > by the then Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the > Gyan-NE, the NE branch of > the NIF, to secure NIF support. Till then developing > a green arecanut peeler > was thought to be impossible by the innovators > worldwide. Bharali could > develop the machine within 20 days. The innovation > of Bharali was so > appreciated that when its live demonstration was > held on the Guwahati IIT > campus, Karnataka-based Dharma Technology acquired > its technology for a > period of five years since 2001, for the state of > Karnataka. The same > company also procured the machine for marketing in > Singapore and Chile, said > Bharali. > > Then came the cassava-peeling machine in early 2002. > This machine has a > tremendous demand in South Africa and Central > American countries. As, in > these countries, which have been facing famine-like > situations, cassava > flour is considered to be the best nutritious food. > > By this time, he was successful in receiving the > support of the NIF. And > with such support, Bharali started working on a > series of machines and thus > came the 'Safed Musli Peeler', the 'Passion-fruit > Gel Extractor', 'Aloebera > Gel Extractor', the 'Dhoop Making Machines', the > 'Bamboo-craft Machines', > the 'Paddy Thrasher', the 'Stevia Pulveriser', the > 'Garlic-peeling Machine' > and finally the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The last > named machine has found > market all over the world. > > Bharali is the first man in the world to develop the > 'Cassava Peeler', the > 'Arecanut Peeler' and the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. > The Discovery Channel > telecast his innovation of the third machine in > January last. In his list of > innovations, one more machine'Jatropha De-seeding > Machine' was also added > recently. > > Now Bharali is engaged in developing a device that > can mechanise bamboo > splitting for weaving tarza walls. The NEDFi has > sponsored this venture. > > Bharali has by now received 33 national and > international assignments, which > include the ones for sugarcane-peeling, > mango-peeling, mini tea plant with > the capacity to produce 100 kgs of processed tea per > day and bamboo artisan > craft machine. A company from Nairobi has placed the > order for the mini tea > plant with him, while he received the order for the > bamboo artisan craft > machine from a South African company through the > Beijing-based International > Network for Bamboo and Rattan. He has also received > several other > assignments from International Fund for Agricultural > Development. > > Of late, he has received an assignment for > manufacturing a ginger-peeling > machine from Nepal through the NIF and another > assignment for a > potato-peeling and slicing machine from the UK, > Bharali said. > > He attributes the popularity of his innovations to > their designs that make > more production possible with less consumption of > power. Moreover, his > machines do not require any foundation, he said. > > ___ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > Umesh Sharma 5121 Lackawanna ST College Park, MD 20740 USA Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone] Canada # (607) 221-9433 Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
Re: [Assam] Prof. Sanyal at 85
a good one on India's Teacher's Day - Sep 5th. UmeshDilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The former students and faculty members of IIT KGP will enjoy reading the story below on Prof. Sanyal. Prof. Sanyal's link with Assam - He was born in Dhubri town. Way way back - I met Prof. Sanyal on the day of my IIT KGP interview and I was impressed. When I took his 4th year course on wave propagation, I was even more impressed, especially with the preciseness of his words. During my final year viva I got into an argument with Dr. Faruqi who kept leading me away from my area of thesis into his area of expertise. Department chairman Prof. Sanyal not only steered us back, he gave me an "A" despite my rough encounter with Dr. Faruqi - that is how fair he was to his students. I am so happy to hear that he is still active on the campus at 85. Last time I talked to him was when he was visiting USA to raise alumni money for the institute - yes, IIT KGP. Dilip FROM TOI At 85, IIT-Kgp founder-teacher is still a favourite Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey 5 Sep, 2006 KOLKATA: For 52 years IIT-Kharagpur has been his home, and it will continue to be so. Forty-nine of the 50 teachers whom the government chose to build the country's first IIT have departed, but at 85, G S Sanyal shows no sign of aging. He is not even tired, he wakes up every morning to help take the institute to a newer heights. Right from the director of the institute to the guard, Sanyal is 'sir' to everyone. And whatever the official teachers' day programme at the institute may be, the campus community unfailingly drops by to wish him on September 5. Sanyal graduated from the department of applied physics of the Calcutta University (CU) in 1943. He then joined the All India Radio and worked for it in Kolkata, Delhi and Dhaka. Thereafter, he got selected by the government for a scholarship to study electronics, radars and radios in UK, where he stayed till 1950. However, he never wanted to settle abroad and returned to join CU as a lecturer in its Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics. It was from here that he was picked up by the Jawaharlal Nehru government to join the newly-formed IIT-Kharagpur, from where he retired in 1987 as its director. But the institute was in no mood to let him go because by then Sanyal had helped his department of electronics and electrical communication engineering attain global acclaim. The institute wanted him to stay on in an advisory capacity... So from helping the institute with its new initiatives Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) and the Vinod Gupta School of Management, to designing the vision document of the institute and taking 'technology to the villages' Sanyal is the key. Moreover, he is considered to be the best teacher of electro magnetics and wireless communications in the country and has won the highest awards in the world in his subject. Ever since he retired, universities abroad have been requesting him to join them University of Florida, University of Stanford, University of California, University of San Francisco and Concordia University of Montreal, to name a few. But his affair with IIT-Kgp is far from over. "Let alone joining another institute, I even refused to join my son who lives abroad. There's much to be done at the institute here and I cannot imagine a life outside," Sanyal says, choosing to ignore his chronic pulmonary disease. Among those who will call Sanyal to wish him a happy teacher's day is S K Dube, director of the institute, who says, "Whenever there's a problem, we look up to him for a solution and believe me, he always has one. He remains students' favourite even till date, because of his wealth of knowledge. You will see a steady train of students surrounding him with their problems after classes." Most of the senior faculty members, who have been his students, agree. R V Rajakumar, who was Sanyal's student about two-and-a-half-decades back, and is now dean of the institute's academic affairs, says, "Sanyal is a wizard with his subject. I had the option of going to any IIT, I wanted to, but I chose IIT-Kgp just to be his student and to this day I am one." Another student Madhusudan Chakraborty, now deputy director of the institute, says, "His very presence is a source of comfort to all of us. He is aptly called the grand old man of IIT-Kgp ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.orgUmesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps fo
Re: [Assam] US court retains flawed Hinduism textbooks - HT/Indo-Asian News
two steps forward then one step backwards --thats how gradual and progressive change is. UmeshRam Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This is interesting. Highlights are mine. ___ A California court has accepted a Hindu body's contention that some textbooks with a flawed presentation of Hinduism were approved improperly, but refused to throw them out of schools for now. A flawed approval process had resulted in textbooks that presented the debunked Aryan Migration Theory as fact, misrepresented caste as central to Hinduism and left the impression that Hinduism devalued the role of women, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) said in a press release. The California Superior Court last week upheld HAF's claim that the state School Board of Education (SBE) had followed a flawed and illegal approval process for sixth grade textbooks. But the court denied its demand that SBE be required to throw out the currently approved textbooks and revisit the entire textbook adoption process, it said. In his ruling, Judge Patrick Marlette wrote the California SBE has been conducting its textbook approval process under invalid 'underground regulations', but said the rejection of textbooks would be disruptive not only to affected sixth graders, but potentially every California public school student using any and every textbooks. So while the process followed in adopting the contentious Hinduism sections, and all recently approved textbooks in California, was illegalas HAF had arguedthe judge apparently decided against a sweeping ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits discarding textbooks in the most populous state in the US, the release said. As the immediate goal of revising textbooks was unmet, HAF attorneys are considering their options for an appeal to force revisions to the Hinduism section in the contested textbooks, it said.___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.orgUmesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Prof. Sanyal at 85
The former students and faculty members of IIT KGP will enjoy reading the story below on Prof. Sanyal. Prof. Sanyal's link with Assam - He was born in Dhubri town. Way way back - I met Prof. Sanyal on the day of my IIT KGP interview and I was impressed. When I took his 4th year course on wave propagation, I was even more impressed, especially with the preciseness of his words. During my final year viva I got into an argument with Dr. Faruqi who kept leading me away from my area of thesis into his area of expertise. Department chairman Prof. Sanyal not only steered us back, he gave me an "A" despite my rough encounter with Dr. Faruqi - that is how fair he was to his students. I am so happy to hear that he is still active on the campus at 85. Last time I talked to him was when he was visiting USA to raise alumni money for the institute - yes, IIT KGP. Dilip FROM TOI At 85, IIT-Kgp founder-teacher is still a favourite Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey 5 Sep, 2006 KOLKATA: For 52 years IIT-Kharagpur has been his home, and it will continue to be so. Forty-nine of the 50 teachers whom the government chose to build the country's first IIT have departed, but at 85, G S Sanyal shows no sign of aging. He is not even tired, he wakes up every morning to help take the institute to a newer heights. Right from the director of the institute to the guard, Sanyal is 'sir' to everyone. And whatever the official teachers' day programme at the institute may be, the campus community unfailingly drops by to wish him on September 5. Sanyal graduated from the department of applied physics of the Calcutta University (CU) in 1943. He then joined the All India Radio and worked for it in Kolkata, Delhi and Dhaka. Thereafter, he got selected by the government for a scholarship to study electronics, radars and radios in UK, where he stayed till 1950. However, he never wanted to settle abroad and returned to join CU as a lecturer in its Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics. It was from here that he was picked up by the Jawaharlal Nehru government to join the newly-formed IIT-Kharagpur, from where he retired in 1987 as its director. But the institute was in no mood to let him go because by then Sanyal had helped his department of electronics and electrical communication engineering attain global acclaim. The institute wanted him to stay on in an advisory capacity... So from helping the institute with its new initiatives Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) and the Vinod Gupta School of Management, to designing the vision document of the institute and taking 'technology to the villages' Sanyal is the key. Moreover, he is considered to be the best teacher of electro magnetics and wireless communications in the country and has won the highest awards in the world in his subject. Ever since he retired, universities abroad have been requesting him to join them University of Florida, University of Stanford, University of California, University of San Francisco and Concordia University of Montreal, to name a few. But his affair with IIT-Kgp is far from over. "Let alone joining another institute, I even refused to join my son who lives abroad. There's much to be done at the institute here and I cannot imagine a life outside," Sanyal says, choosing to ignore his chronic pulmonary disease. Among those who will call Sanyal to wish him a happy teacher's day is S K Dube, director of the institute, who says, "Whenever there's a problem, we look up to him for a solution and believe me, he always has one. He remains students' favourite even till date, because of his wealth of knowledge. You will see a steady train of students surrounding him with their problems after classes." Most of the senior faculty members, who have been his students, agree. R V Rajakumar, who was Sanyal's student about two-and-a-half-decades back, and is now dean of the institute's academic affairs, says, "Sanyal is a wizard with his subject. I had the option of going to any IIT, I wanted to, but I chose IIT-Kgp just to be his student and to this day I am one." Another student Madhusudan Chakraborty, now deputy director of the institute, says, "His very presence is a source of comfort to all of us. He is aptly called the grand old man of IIT-Kgp ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Canada's extremes: Seal fights, clothing optional beaches; celibate Bahai youth
Hi, Yesterday was a holiday in Canada so I wanted to explore the sea front down from the Univ ( www.ubc.ca ) where I am staying and saw the huts of the Native Americans who live on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to here. http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04sep02/forestry.html Then saw a flight of steps leading down to the ocean front but was curious about two things : One that seal pups are around and that clothing is optional (illegal in USA) . http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/PacificSpirit.htm Down below most were dressed somewhat but few were in baby-suits mainly guys strutting their stuff. This is a very gay-firendly city I'm told -so seemed like gays .
Thus, Initially after sitting for a few minutes I turned to go back up the steps but seeing the breath-taking view I of the sea I returned to walk about two hours. Damn these chaps - the nature is from others as well. I might be the only South Asian around (I saw lots of them in the Univ swimming pool later) but I am not going to let them cheat me out of the nature. On the map I got down at trail 4 on top left and walked on roacks and sea to the breakwater opp. trail six -and about 200 yards on the breakwater rocks out in the sea -with slippers in my hand clambering over rocks -all alone - where I saw the seals with fish in their mouth fighting with each other http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/parks/maps/Pacificspiritmap.pdf (Trail map) (like
dogs snatching bread from each other or like kites snatching pakoras in the sky) in the sea -just a few feet from me . Ofcourse, after seeing a few nude females as well (there were children as well) those in bikinis and swim-suits seemed like nuns. Nonetheless it was less dramatic than one sees in pics etc -no illegal activities I mean :-) I did see quite a few East Asians here. Mostly giggling clothed girls avoiding looking at the naked white guys deliberately facing them. I stood out like a sore thumb or like James Bond - in full formals -Raymond ("the complete man") tailored full sleeved white striped shirt , wrinkle resistant cotton gray tailored pants-all from India. Actually these were my last unsoiled clothes since my T-shirts and Jeans had been put in the paid washing machines yesterday. I was wading in the sea -since there were only cliffs in most places and barefoot over rocks going out
into the sea -like a jetty of sorts. Anyhow an Indian esp a Hindu/Jains can draw solace in the ancient traiditons of India where Naked Sadhus and Naked dieties -both male and female are revered. So a natural place does not necessariliy have to be the haunt of baser people aping the bulls and cows in Indian streets - only in their body language etc no action. Anyhow it is a challenge one has top face -like going to worship the divine in a Khajuraho temple with its erotic imagery on the outside (I have never been to Khajuraho). However, I would like to view the scenary once again and see the natural elements of Canadian landscape which perhaps inspired Canada based Deepa Mehta to make sexually charged , extremely controversial (in India) films like Fire, Earth and Water. I did visit a city based beach/sea front last week with my Harvard classmate , her mother, her husband, their child - where people seemed
more civilized. It is a like an Indian city with no flyovers, no metro-trams-subways --only cosy rolling roads around the mountain backed sea bay --like Udaipur -the City of Lakes in India. It might surprise many that Bahai followers including my classmate and her husband, and their parents have to take a vow of chastity (till marriage) and abstinence from alchohol and smoking. They met while studying at Vancouver Island's Bahia school http://www.maxwell.bc.ca/index.php I did mention my visit later on. Some photos of our city based English Beach later on after uploading from the camera. Any comments? Umesh -- Naked jain sadhus http://www.hermitary.com/articles/digambara.html Female Indian sadhus http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/essay-07-05.html & http://www.adolphus.nl/sadhus/sadhvi.html Indian Sadhus http://www.tomvater.com/sadhu.html Naked in Ashes - 2006 movie http://www.frimmin.com/2006/04/30/naked-in-ashes/ an interesting book online http://www.anandamayi.org/devotees/inthesteps.htm Naga Sadhus in Kumbha Mela 2001 -in cold winter http://www.stephen-knapp.com/kumbha_mela_photos_group_three.htm (I was there.) Umesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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Re: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana , Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree more
Rajen-da, The bias is the very fact such an issue is being debated in top US magazines. Do they still debate the issue that Blacks are geneticaly inferior and that their heads are not big enough to fit mature human brain. I'm told Watson and Crick -who unravleed the DNA structure and Nobel Laureates used to do just that. They were biased if they did that. If media does that -it is biased. About Indian or Chinese or African or Latin American or native American women engaging in outdoor work -why is it slave labor? They have the freedom to work. They get paid for their work . They can work even if their husbands die or leave them - I have seen quite a few such working women. They can riase their children etc on their earnings. Where is the slavery in that? In many cases such women leave their husbands and take up new ones -- there's the modernity you were seeking perhaps. Regards. UmeshRajen & Ajanta Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. Umesh: I see the point in the aticle but failed to see the bias in the media in the west. Am I missing something. RB >In villages and the poor in India etc women do most of the work -in the fields, as housemaids, as construction workers - they are career women. These women in India and China are not Career women, thay are like slave labours. Women do most of the work in Asia in the house and field plus raise the children, and men just sit an enjoy. RB- Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:13 PM Subject: [Assam] Rediff/Forbes: career women: my mother, Princess Diana ,Prophet Muhammad, our housemaid couldn't disagree morehttp://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/24forbes1.htm Hi, This article shows the bias in the media -even in the west. It shows that males are incapable of raising children and females are incapable of having careers. This sick mentality has no basis in nature. female tigers and females of other species have killed prey and provided for their young ones -they are career females in that sense. Many famous career women have long standing non-famous husbands -such as Indian Police Officer Kiran Bedi, Julia Roberts the Hollywood actor . However, traditionally there has been demand for "trophy wives" by well placed bachelors (beautiful, cultured etc) as seen in young teens wearing T-shirts saying "A future trophy wife" -in the West also. Also the Western media promotes most eligible bachelors in the traditional way - rich and famous-period. Not as good househusbands but as money earners or bread winners. Perhaps that is why the research mentioned in the above article shows that not only are many men put off by richer women (Prophet Muhammad married a richer and older woman -a widow - 1300 years ago -so most liberal?) but even women are put off by a less money earning house-husband. In villages and the poor in India etc women do most of the work -in the fields, as housemaids, as construction workers - they are career women. Have been for centuries or thousands of years -with no significant affect on their marital lives. Any comments? Umesh Umesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.orgUmesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 USACurrent temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Canada # (607) 221-9433Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ Securitys tight. Get leading Spam and virus protection with the new Yahoo! Mail.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Atul Sarma
I am looking for phone number/email of Atul Sarma of Louisville, KY. I had contact with him till a few years back but have somehow misplaced the contact details. Regards Krishnendu __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] US court retains flawed Hinduism textbooks - HT/Indo-Asian News
This is interesting. Highlights are mine. ___ A California court has accepted a Hindu body's contention that some textbooks with a flawed presentation of Hinduism were approved improperly, but refused to throw them out of schools for now. A flawed approval process had resulted in textbooks that presented the debunked Aryan Migration Theory as fact, misrepresented caste as central to Hinduism and left the impression that Hinduism devalued the role of women, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) said in a press release. The California Superior Court last week upheld HAF's claim that the state School Board of Education (SBE) had followed a flawed and illegal approval process for sixth grade textbooks. But the court denied its demand that SBE be required to throw out the currently approved textbooks and revisit the entire textbook adoption process, it said. In his ruling, Judge Patrick Marlette wrote the California SBE has been conducting its textbook approval process under invalid 'underground regulations', but said the rejection of textbooks would be disruptive not only to affected sixth graders, but potentially every California public school student using any and every textbooks. So while the process followed in adopting the contentious Hinduism sections, and all recently approved textbooks in California, was illegal—as HAF had argued—the judge apparently decided against a sweeping ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits discarding textbooks in the most populous state in the US, the release said. As the immediate goal of revising textbooks was unmet, HAF attorneys are considering their options for an appeal to force revisions to the Hinduism section in the contested textbooks, it said. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-AT
Title: Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly ma That is excellent! I wish Bharali many more successes. cm At 10:00 AM +0530 9/5/06, Manoj Das wrote: Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines By Ajit Patowary GUWAHATI, Sept 4 - Working out the problems in a small workshop at North Lakhimpur town in the State's flood-ravaged Lakhimpur district, this 40-year-old innovation wizard has so far designed and manufactured 40 long sought-for machines. He is now a technical expert-cum-role model for the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of the country. He is Uddhab Kumar Bharali, a mechanical engineer of the 1988 batch of the Institute of Engineers (India). He started his UKB Agrotech, a house-machine design and research firm, around 1992 on his own, spending some hopeless years running after those in the corridors of power seeking support to set up a machine designing-cum-training firm. His first machine was the modern dheki, the re-designed Assamese paddy grinder, which could be operated by turning a wheel. But to emerge as the real innovator, he had to borrow an amount of Rs 30,000 from a private moneylender at a monthly interest rate of 10 per cent on the principal amount. In the meantime, he had to shoulder the burden of a family loan of Rs 11 lakh. With the amount he borrowed, he developed the green arecanut-peeling machine in 2001. Bharali had to accept the challenge of developing the arecanut peeler thrown by the then Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the Gyan-NE, the NE branch of the NIF, to secure NIF support. Till then developing a green arecanut peeler was thought to be impossible by the innovators worldwide. Bharali could develop the machine within 20 days. The innovation of Bharali was so appreciated that when its live demonstration was held on the Guwahati IIT campus, Karnataka-based Dharma Technology acquired its technology for a period of five years since 2001, for the state of Karnataka. The same company also procured the machine for marketing in Singapore and Chile, said Bharali. Then came the cassava-peeling machine in early 2002. This machine has a tremendous demand in South Africa and Central American countries. As, in these countries, which have been facing famine-like situations, cassava flour is considered to be the best nutritious food. By this time, he was successful in receiving the support of the NIF. And with such support, Bharali started working on a series of machines and thus came the 'Safed Musli Peeler', the 'Passion-fruit Gel Extractor', 'Aloebera Gel Extractor', the 'Dhoop Making Machines', the 'Bamboo-craft Machines', the 'Paddy Thrasher', the 'Stevia Pulveriser', the 'Garlic-peeling Machine' and finally the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The last named machine has found market all over the world. Bharali is the first man in the world to develop the 'Cassava Peeler', the 'Arecanut Peeler' and the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The Discovery Channel telecast his innovation of the third machine in January last. In his list of innovations, one more machine-'Jatropha De-seeding Machine'- was also added recently. Now Bharali is engaged in developing a device that can mechanise bamboo splitting for weaving tarza walls. The NEDFi has sponsored this venture. Bharali has by now received 33 national and international assignments, which include the ones for sugarcane-peeling, mango-peeling, mini tea plant with the capacity to produce 100 kgs of processed tea per day and bamboo artisan craft machine. A company from Nairobi has placed the order for the mini tea plant with him, while he received the order for the bamboo artisan craft machine from a South African company through the Beijing-based International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. He has also received several other assignments from International Fund for Agricultural Development. Of late, he has received an assignment for manufacturing a ginger-peeling machine from Nepal through the NIF and another assignment for a potato-peeling and slicing machine from the UK, Bharali said. He attributes the popularity of his innovations to their designs that make more production possible with less consumption of power. Moreover, his machines do not require any foundation, he said. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-AT
Yes, Manoj - just saw the item in the AT. Thanks --Ram da On 9/5/06, Manoj Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ramda I read about him today in AT. Although I belong to NLP, haven't heard about him. They are the unsung heroes. May be they should be given exposure by our NRAs for upgrading their skills. Rgds Manoj On 9/5/06, Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Manoj, Thank you for forwarding this piece of good news. Bhuban da is right. I read the AT and the Sentinel fairly regularly (on the net), but have not seen any mention of Bharali over the years. Must have just missed it! But Bharali does deserve kudos for the innovations. --Ram da On 9/4/06, Manoj Das < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machinesBy Ajit Patowary GUWAHATI, Sept 4 – Working out the problems in a small workshop at North Lakhimpur town in the State's flood-ravaged Lakhimpur district, this 40-year-old innovation wizard has so far designed and manufactured 40 long sought-for machines. He is now a technical expert-cum-role model for the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of the country. He is Uddhab Kumar Bharali, a mechanical engineer of the 1988 batch of the Institute of Engineers (India). He started his UKB Agrotech, a house-machine design and research firm, around 1992 on his own, spending some hopeless years running after those in the corridors of power seeking support to set up a machine designing-cum-training firm. His first machine was the modern dheki, the re-designed Assamese paddy grinder, which could be operated by turning a wheel. But to emerge as the real innovator, he had to borrow an amount of Rs 30,000 from a private moneylender at a monthly interest rate of 10 per cent on the principal amount. In the meantime, he had to shoulder the burden of a family loan of Rs 11 lakh. With the amount he borrowed, he developed the green arecanut-peeling machine in 2001. Bharali had to accept the challenge of developing the arecanut peeler thrown by the then Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the Gyan-NE, the NE branch of the NIF, to secure NIF support. Till then developing a green arecanut peeler was thought to be impossible by the innovators worldwide. Bharali could develop the machine within 20 days. The innovation of Bharali was so appreciated that when its live demonstration was held on the Guwahati IIT campus, Karnataka-based Dharma Technology acquired its technology for a period of five years since 2001, for the state of Karnataka. The same company also procured the machine for marketing in Singapore and Chile, said Bharali. Then came the cassava-peeling machine in early 2002. This machine has a tremendous demand in South Africa and Central American countries. As, in these countries, which have been facing famine-like situations, cassava flour is considered to be the best nutritious food. By this time, he was successful in receiving the support of the NIF. And with such support, Bharali started working on a series of machines and thus came the 'Safed Musli Peeler', the 'Passion-fruit Gel Extractor', 'Aloebera Gel Extractor', the 'Dhoop Making Machines', the 'Bamboo-craft Machines', the 'Paddy Thrasher', the 'Stevia Pulveriser', the 'Garlic-peeling Machine' and finally the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The last named machine has found market all over the world. Bharali is the first man in the world to develop the 'Cassava Peeler', the 'Arecanut Peeler' and the 'Pomegranate De-seeder'. The Discovery Channel telecast his innovation of the third machine in January last. In his list of innovations, one more machine—'Jatropha De-seeding Machine'— was also added recently. Now Bharali is engaged in developing a device that can mechanise bamboo splitting for weaving tarza walls. The NEDFi has sponsored this venture.Bharali has by now received 33 national and international assignments, which include the ones for sugarcane-peeling, mango-peeling, mini tea plant with the capacity to produce 100 kgs of processed tea per day and bamboo artisan craft machine. A company from Nairobi has placed the order for the mini tea plant with him, while he received the order for the bamboo artisan craft machine from a South African company through the Beijing-based International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. He has also received several other assignments from International Fund for Agricultural Development. Of late, he has received an assignment for manufacturing a ginger-peeling machine from Nepal through the NIF and another assignment for a potato-peeling and slicing machine from the UK, Bharali said. He attributes the popularity of his innovations to their designs that make more production possible with less consumption of power. Moreover, his machines do not require any foundation, he said. ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org -- Manoj Kumar DasC 172 Gr FloorSarvodaya Encla
Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-AT
Govt. of Assam is in the grip of ASSes ( Ministers/IAS) who never promote any local innovation. My Wonderchair,Wonderbed, -- which were shown/given to Prafulla Mahanta in 1986--to enable Assam's Bamboo wealth to be globally distributed in kit form to locally tackweld/ bind up and sell in IKEA type innovative furniture shops. He asked-"What should I do?". "Send a circular- ' all chairs purchased shall be max. @Rs100/- and of local manufacture--contact mm- phone # ---, he will tell you how to implement ' ". Poor chap -he could not see the economic implication of the Bamboo economy! I tried hard- but he - like all CM's have mental blocks. The current one too. They all sit on Godrej or Garish Stuffed 'Sofas' and suffer from Eczema/Spodilitis/Backpain due to wrong postures in sitting/sleeping.Similarly my Elekto-Assist solution for world's drinking water, and my do-it-yourself Precast/Hollow low-mass concrete housing solution He passed the mass- employment Wonder-Chair problem to an IAS. I knew that was the end. Later NedFi /National Designs Institute were brought in - Tifac /National Bamboo Mission were established at Tens Crores a year. I told them-"Take my designs- I shall charge reasonably". No!!"OK-your loss". What is the bottom line?-look up National Bamboo Mission India website. Mr. Bharali's innovations/inventions should have debugged to great heights by IIT-where he submitted /demonstrated these. And by Assam Engineering College, Regional Research Laboratory, Assam Govt Marketing Board, District Industries Centre, The palatial Industries Dept HQ, SISI, Indian Institute of Entrepreneurs, The fly-by- night Institututes of Management---. But then!! You will have to wait. mm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]CC: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: Re: [Assam] Assamese innovator designs 40 user friendly machines-ATDate: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:01:03 EDT Why have we not heard about Bharali so long? Bhuban >___>assam mailing list>assam@assamnet.org>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
