[Assam] Lets hope for a Chain of "Kharika"
Assamese dishes have potential to go global By A City Correspondent GUWAHATI, June 28 Ethnic cuisines of the North East when marketed properly would be taking the world by storm, and especially Assamese dishes have the potential to go global. This observation was made by noted writer and editor of Sadin Anuradha Sarma Pujari after inaugurating a restaurant with the befitting name of Kharika, opposite Borah Service GS Road on Thursday. The restaurant owned by well known chef of Assam Atul Lahkar and Nripen Deka would be primarily serving ethnic cuisines of the North East. Wishing the entrepreneurs success in their venture, Pujari said that with the right mix of modernization and presentation, Assamese recipes would surely catch the fancy of the gourmets. Assamese delicacies have all the ingredients to become globally accepted. It is nutritious and easy to digest, she opined. Muktikam Phukan Deputy Director (NR) Petroleum Conservation Research Association Sanrakshan Bhawan,10, Bhikaiji Cama Place,New Delhi 110066 Ph: +91 11 26198856 Ext 385,Res: +91 120 2452892,Mob: +91 9210001973 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Lets hope for a Chain of "Kharika"
Assamese dishes have potential to go global By A City Correspondent GUWAHATI, June 28 Ethnic cuisines of the North East when marketed properly would be taking the world by storm, and especially Assamese dishes have the potential to go global. This observation was made by noted writer and editor of Sadin Anuradha Sarma Pujari after inaugurating a restaurant with the befitting name of Kharika, opposite Borah Service GS Road on Thursday. The restaurant owned by well known chef of Assam Atul Lahkar and Nripen Deka would be primarily serving ethnic cuisines of the North East. Wishing the entrepreneurs success in their venture, Pujari said that with the right mix of modernization and presentation, Assamese recipes would surely catch the fancy of the gourmets. Assamese delicacies have all the ingredients to become globally accepted. It is nutritious and easy to digest, she opined. Muktikam Phukan Deputy Director (NR) Petroleum Conservation Research Association Sanrakshan Bhawan,10, Bhikaiji Cama Place,New Delhi 110066 Ph: +91 11 26198856 Ext 385,Res: +91 120 2452892,Mob: +91 9210001973 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] ULFA to begin drive against Bangladeshi migrants from Kaziranga
I remember seeing a cartoon in Prantik, may be some twenty five years back (during Assam agitation) on Kaziranga. It was something like this. There was a barricaded area and a sign board saying Kaziranga National Park for protecting last of the Assamese people. In side the barricade there were no rhinos but there was an Assamese family-the gamusa wearing kaami haar uluwa male member was doing some baah bettor kaam. And the whole barricaded area was surrounded by numerous people wearing lungi and sporting beard looking curiously at the exhibits. Mahanta da something on what you said India not entertaining the idea of plebiscite-I think it is not the result of plebiscite, Mahanta da, but the PREMISE. Even a child can understand it. Tell me if there a historical basis for asking for a plebiscite when Assamese whole heartedly supported becoming part of India in 1947. Another option was Pakistan or an independent country like Bhutan. But did any of the Assamese leaders mention an independent Assam at that time? Was there a murmur of protest like that in Hyderabad or Junagarh or Kashmir due to merger with India? Historically I think states like Goa, Sikkim or princely states of Manipur or Tripura or Cooch Behar district can lay claim to a plebiscite. But not Assam, as it was part of British India for more than 100 years and chose to become part of independent India just like Bengal, Bihar, Orissa. If you would still like to find a historical perspective (harping on this fallacy that Assam was never part of India), should it be ULFA asking for a plebiscite on this 78000 sq of land mass or should it be the descendants of Ahum roja for those few upper Assam districts, Jamidars of Bijni, Gauripur for undivided Goalpara, descendents of Kachari king for NC hills, descendents of Chutiya kings ousted by Ahums, present and still living Tiwa roja for western Naogaon and parts of Karbi Anglong? Believe me the mode Assam is in today-that of reinventing its diverse ethnicity and past-all these descendents will appear from nowhere. I am not a student of history. Correct me if anywhere I have gone wrong. But Mahanta da if you think plebiscite is needed because there is a DISPUTE and the party asking for plebiscite has promised that it will abide by the rules, then tell me Mahanta da, should GOI hold plebiscite in Maharashtra also in 2008 just because ONE single person is asking for it and he happens to have Indian President Pratibha Patils grandson as hostage. To make things simple for you- First-please educate us if there is any historical basis to this demand for plebiscite? Second-if a plebiscite is needed because ULFA is asking for it, should India not give this luxury of options to all the downtrodden and more so to states like Mizoram, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, and all the 540+erstwhile princely states? Third-For Assam should it be single choice (India vs. Independent Assam) or multiple choice questions (India vs Independent Assam/Dimaraji/Bodoland/and numerous other lands which will spring up during the plebiscite like those numerous political parties which surface during elections). I hope you can give a answer to this third question to prove that you have done your homework on this plebiscite issue. Regards Chittaranjan Pathak - Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] New TV channel in Guwahati soon
New TV channel in Guwahati soon By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 28: It augurs well for the State that a new private TV channel will be launched shortly from Guwahati to fill the electronic media vacuum in the State. It may be mentioned here that currently only one private TV channel is in the air in the entire North-east. A number of media houses moved the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I & B) seeking permission for launching private TV channels in the State, and of them only Pride East Entertainment Private Limited (PEEPL) got permission. The name of the TV channel will be News Live and it will air news in Asomiya and English, besides entertainment programmes. The director of the new TV channel will be Atanu Bhuyan, an Asomiya journalist. Talking to The Sentinel, Atanu Bhuyan said: The totally non-paid TV channel is likely to be started in October-end, and its cost has been estimated at Rs 30 crore. The board of directors of the channel comprises Atanu Bhuyan (Sujata Apartment, Nilomoni Phukan Road, Chirstianbasti), Bhaskar Sarma (Bhubaneswari Path, Kamakhya), Rajiv Bhuyan (Rajaduwar, North Guwahati) and Ghanashyam Talukdar (Pub-Maligaon Railway Colony, Quarters No. 244). The office of the TV channel will be in a six-storeyed building near Hotel Pragati Manor, Christianbasti in the city. Talking to The Sentinel, AGP-P president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said: This is indeed a good news that new TV channels are coming up in the region. The new channel should ensure that while airing news there are no biased or concocted stories. Instead of confining itself to the region, the new channel should cover events of the entire world. On the other hand, AASU general secretary Sankar Prasad Rai said: Such channels will expose Asom to the whole of the world and the world to the whole of the State. NSUIs Asom unit general secretary Imdad Hussain said: The proposed new TV channel is a welcome development, especially given the fact that some Asomiya persons have come up with the idea. - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] ANT & GRASS HOPPER
strange analogy by the joker - but logic is a double edged weapon. One can make a similar one about Brahmin (so-called) priests as well . Umesh Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ANT & GRASS HOPPER I saw this miserable piece in more than one forum. Looks like like it is a big hit among the desi-yuppies.,particularly among those self-made, hardworking scions of the establishment, who got where they did, often out of the largesse of a reverse-Robinhoodism practising desi govt. that steals from the many to enrich the chosen few. Is there any substance to it? Perhaps there is. But it eludes this responder. So how do Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy get into the picture? Hmmm! That is a mystery. But then again, perhaps it is because they have the gall to speak out for all those who do not count in the image of a shining India which is built on the backs of the great unwashed, who must not work hard enough to succeed like the hardworking sons and daughters of the establishment, who attend schools with Christian saints' names paying huge fees, go to IITs and IIMs and AIIMs, get H1B visas and go to enjoy their hard-won fortunes in the west, or at the very least enjoy the good life at Gurgaon . So is it at least a noteworthy piece of satire? Perhaps, to those who are stuck in a sophomoric rut. cm At 5:07 PM +0530 6/26/07, bg wrote: India-today ANT & GRASS HOPPER An old fable, earlier retold in the US and now adapted to Indian situation. ANT & GRASS HOPPER OLD VERSION... The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) . Opposition MP's stage a walkout. Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers. Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educational Institutions & in Govt Services. The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice". Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'. CPM calls it the 'revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden' Kofi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later...The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi billion dollar company in Silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ... As a result losing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country.. ___ 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 Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of
[Assam] From ToI/ Afzal Guru, the Guilty, or is He?
We discussed this in assamnet, to the chagrin of some of our more desi friends :-). cm Afzal mercy campaign gathers steam abroad 29 Jun, 2007 l 0241 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK LONDON: The overseas campaign to secure mercy for Afzal Guru, turned the heat up a notch with 40 British parliamentarians, human rights lawyers and civil liberty activists attending a House of Commons meeting to decry the alleged "miscarriage of justice". The meeting on Wednesday night, which comes 10 weeks after Guru's cause was first championed here, urged Britain's new prime minister Gordon Brown, "who has spoken out against the death penalty - to intervene in the Afzal Guru case and write to A P J Abdul Kalam asking him to grant Afzal a reprieve". John McDonnell, a left-wing MP of the governing Labour Party, chaired the meeting and spoke of his experience of cases of miscarriage of justice. He said, cases of miscarriage of justice follow a typical pattern "where an outrageous violent incident is followed by a moral panic, where those arrested have poor legal representation or none at all, where torture is involved and where the court case edges from an abuse of the system to farce and pantomime and is followed by the death penalty or a very long jail sentence. But gradually information seeps out, a campaign builds up and that is what is happening in Afzal's case". South Asian activists and campaigners discussed a previous Early Day Motion (EDM) moved by McDonnell, which was signed by 30 British MPs and urged President Kalam to grant Guru a reprieve and call an inquiry into his conviction. In a significant step-change of pace for the newly-formed 'Campaign to Save Afzal Guru', McDonnell declared "(we) must now raise the profile of the case internationally we have started this and now have the support of a large number of MPs - we will take a delegation from among those who have signed the EDM to meet the foreign secretary and ask him to take it up and we will seek an adjournment debate in the House of Commons". But in an intervention, considered politically delicate, Mirpuri peer Lord Nazir Ahmed, who has long campaigned for "Kashmiri independence", drew attention to alleged widely-documented human rights abuses in Kashmir. In yet another intervention described by some observers as "India-bashing", Adnan Siddiqui of the 'Cage Prisoners, Guantanamo campaign, spoke about India's role in the US "war on terror". Speaking about conditions in Tihar jail, where Guru is incarcerated, Amrit Wilson of the South Asia Solidarity Group said six prisoners had died there since June 6 and the Red Cross had refused access to Guru.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] ANT & GRASS HOPPER
I saw this miserable piece in more than one forum. Looks like like it is a big hit among the desi-yuppies.,particularly among those self-made, hardworking scions of the establishment, who got where they did, often out of the largesse of a reverse-Robinhoodism practising desi govt. that steals from the many to enrich the chosen few. Is there any substance to it? Perhaps there is. But it eludes this responder. So how do Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy get into the picture? Hmmm! That is a mystery. But then again, perhaps it is because they have the gall to speak out for all those who do not count in the image of a shining India which is built on the backs of the great unwashed, who must not work hard enough to succeed like the hardworking sons and daughters of the establishment, who attend schools with Christian saints' names paying huge fees, go to IITs and IIMs and AIIMs, get H1B visas and go to enjoy their hard-won fortunes in the west, or at the very least enjoy the good life at Gurgaon . So is it at least a noteworthy piece of satire? Perhaps, to those who are stuck in a sophomoric rut. cm At 5:07 PM +0530 6/26/07, bg wrote: India-today ANT & GRASS HOPPER An old fable, earlier retold in the US and now adapted to Indian situation. ANT & GRASS HOPPER OLD VERSION... The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) . Opposition MP's stage a walkout. Left parties call for "Bharat Bandh" in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers. Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]", with effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educational Institutions & in Govt Services. The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati Roy calls it "a triumph of justice". Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'. CPM calls it the 'revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden' Kofi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later...The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi billion dollar company in Silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ... As a result losing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country.. ___ 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
[Assam] Assam07 Advt: video - 59,000 hits dance on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ao-iQimHHg&mode=related&search= got this artist's info from Assam 2007 website's you tube advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw__gMEw16g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eassam2007%2Ecom%2FEvent%2Ehtm Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Sunday meet at DC (Laurel)
I wonder how many Assam netters are coming to DC meet this weekend. http://www.posoowa.org/2007/04/01/assam2007-a-community-get-together-of-assamese-abroad/ c u then. Umesh Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Assam 2007 in DC - US - Welcome!!?
http://www.assam2007.com/ This weekend... Umesh Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Harvard MBA: Outsourcing healthcare to India /Thailand
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5676.html Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at some point? A: Not yet. I have 3 student teams who focused on this, and their analysis was that employers are very worried about sending their employees to India, so they're unlikely to ask their insurers to offer India or Thailand as an option. It's the human resource person, not the CEO, making this decision. So this poor human resource person says, "Oh my God, if I have an insurance policy that says you can go to Thailand or India for surgery, and something goes wrong, I'm going to be on the front page of The New York Times for outsourcing surgery." If you can't get the employers to buy in, the insurers are not going to do it independently. On the other hand, I'm sure it's going to happen. There are four big hospital companies in India, and I've talked with their CEOs, with these teams of students. They're very focused on this market. And one of the things they're all doing is getting accredited, so that the fear that they don't meet the standards of U.S. hospitals will be minimized. Of course, the accreditation agency is a creature of the hospital system, so how much protection do you really get from that? But they will have the same kind of accreditation as the American hospitals. Some of them have a fabulous strategy, and that is they're very specialized. Rather than build a 1,000-bed hospital, they have hub-and-spoke systems. Hub is for trauma, and spoke are specialized hospitals that deal with specialized needs. They have a fundamentally different delivery system, and the reason they can have it is they're not dealing with the status quo that mashes down every kind of innovation. Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) 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] Rediff:Microsoft, Intel banned from hiring foreign workers??
It is interesting to note that outsourcing firms are being banned from using H-1B and L visas - including Microsoft, Intel, Accenture and other US tech giants. Maybe they will shift operations to Canada or Mexico and call the foreign workers there. Ofcourse, the aim is to stop the rise of the Indians but doesn't matter if Bill Gates is affected - isn't he already too rich? http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jun/28bweek.htm Umesh Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Influx of illegal migrants in Dhansiri sub-div on
Influx of illegal migrants in Dhansiri sub-div on >From Our Correspondent GOLAGHAT, June 27 Suspected Bangladeshi nationals have been settling in the entire Assam-Nagaland border area under Dhansiri subdivision of Golaghat district. These aliens come from Dhubri, Morabari, Dhing, Nagaon, Hojai areas in the night buses and begin to stay at A, B, and C sectors of Assam-Nagaland border. These suspected Bangladeshis are being sheltered by some people with vested interests. The Naga people are involving these Bangladeshis in anti-social activities such as kidnapping, looting, collection of tax and threatening the local permanent people. The number of Bangladeshis now runs to several thousands. Due to increase in the number of Bangladeshis in large numbers, the impact on socio-economic and political life of the people might get worse one day. Worse still, the very existence of the local people might get affected. It may be mentioned here that a section of vested interests tried to enlist their names in voters list for political gain. The conscious people demanded of the district administration of Golaghat to take proper steps immediately in the greater interest of the State and its people. Illegal liquor: The illegal trade of liquor is increasing in several parts of Golaghat town and neighbouring villages, it is alleged by the conscious people of the town. Country liquor is being sold in large quantities in small ghumtis. The local people of both town and villages have been repeatedly urging the excise department for taking stern steps against the illegal liquor traders, but to no avail. Dharna staged: Pranjal Dutta and Pankaj Nath, president and secretary of Golaghat Madhya Anchalik Students Union have alleged that the officers of the Golaghat central block development office, had been involved in corruption and created many problems for the people under the CBD and the union had launched dharna against the corrupt employees of the central Kottalguri block. The union had held a dharna programme were 500 students gathered. The leaders of the GMASU had arranged a meeting also where the tea garden workers, local people also attended. The students union demanded to the government to take stern measures against the corruptions of Mahmud Hassan and Lambit Bhuyan, a junior engineer and if the government failed to take stern actions against them, the union would resort to agitational programme. http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun2807\State7 - Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] ULFA to begin drive against Bangladeshi migrants from Kaziranga
P.S. My pet peeve is that we have not seen a plan how independent Assam will function better than >now, with the same people and an unknown set of laws. That is a reasonable peeve, PROVIDED it is not merely an excuse, an alibi. But I will look at the positive side and assume it is a genuine concern. If so, it would indicate that there indeed is a sincere desire to see changes to the prevailing misgovernment . If so, and since we don't know what ULFA 's plans are, let us, as skeptics, assume that there is none. That won't hurt anybody. If it is in conflict with ULFA's plans, that would give them pause, perhaps they will even listen. So, what prevents US from taking a pro-active role and presenting what we believe are some good ,achievable goals for Assam and the ways to achieve them? We, those of us who have been so fortunate to see and experience better ways, and are endowed with the ability to deliberate intelligently , cannot afford to merely whine about how things are not being run. It is incumbent upon us to put out money where our mouths are, and propose what WE believe is needed? Shouldn't we? And if some amongst us put something forward, instead of merely declaring how it WON"T WORK, why not put forth something constructive to make it better to really WORK as we can see, or even propose something as an alternative? What would WE lose if we do? I would submit there will be absolutely NOTHING to lose and everything to gain in the exercise. And those of us who are here not merely to wave that Indian flag and advocate eternal dependency of Assam on Dilli's handouts, can afford no less. . How will the people adjust to new laws overnight and change for the better? OVERNIGHT! That is the key word. Think about it. And compare that with what the past sixty years have brought for Assam., along with the fairness of the question or the expectation. Having done that thinking you would now know that as a reasonable person with a sincere desire for positive change, one ought not to have expectations for miracles delivered by Federal Express OVERNIGHT. If we do, it would only show that we are being frivolous, that our real interest is reactionary. How is ULFA going to manage Assam's natural resources better to make more money for the citizens, >not ULFA leaders alone? NO revolutionary group ever expects to run an independent nation, once they achieve that, by themselves. Even America the Almighty has learnt, rather fast, in just three years, that Iraq could not be run by American will and power, without the Baathists. ULFA will have to work with the REST. Oh I realize NOT all of them. In fact I would argue that SOME must never again be allowed to come near the running of Assam. But that leaves a whole lot of Assam's able and willing who never have been utilized by the prevailing, dysfunctional system. People like yourself, assuming you are willing. At 6:24 PM -0700 6/27/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote: One more subscriber to the thought. Dilip Deka P.S. My pet peeve is that we have not seen a plan how independent Assam will function better than now, with the same people and an unknown set of laws. How will the people adjust to new laws overnight and change for the better? How is ULFA going to manage Assam's natural resources better to make more money for the citizens, not ULFA leaders alone? = "Mohan R. Palleti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: C'da: You have been saying the same things repeatedly on the net. I acknowledge your committment to ULFA and a independent Assam. Unfortunately I do not subscribe to that thought. Mohan R. Palleti Hi M: At 11:07 AM -0400 6/27/07, Mohan R. Palleti wrote: C'Da, I believe a possible solution can be found by which ULFA be given amnesty >>if they give up arms. And they can take part in forming the government and get what the State deserves. They have the will power, I am sure they will do a good job! *** What you say still does not resolve the contradictions that yours and others' statements and wishes are ridden with. Why should ULFA seek or accept AMNESTY for doing something RIGHT? ULFA's taking up arms was a RESULT of Indian government's acts of commission and omission, its unresponsiveness and its blatant negligence and dereliction of duties, that continue unchanged even today. And had it not been the case, those of you who supported ULFA and egged them on to take on a much more powerful adversary and give ten thousand plus of their lives in the process would NEVER HAVE had that need to do so, had they? Also WHY should ULFA participate in the same defective, unrepresentative, unaccountable and derelict governmental system or an establishment which represents it? If YOU were in ULFAs shoes, would YOU do that, unless Assam wins the right to re-orient and reform
Re: [Assam] ULFA to begin drive against Bangladeshi migrants from Kaziranga
I believe this is another spin story of the Ulfa to garner flagging domestic support OR This is a case of the lower rungs getting fed up of their higher ups, having seen through their deceptive plans of creating a Sonor Assam. Notice that the top leadership hasn't mentioned anything about this. JS ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
