Re: [Assam] Diplomatic Row Between India Norway
Dear all, Latest update: Norway NRI case: Uncle to get custody of kids http://ibnlive.in.com/news/norway-nri-case-uncle-to-take-custody-of-kids/224141-2.html Background information: Child right laws in Norway are very strict. It is applicable to all children residing in Norway irrespective of their gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion. It was Abhigyan's (one of the two children) “erratic” behaviour at school which made the school authorities suspect that he was probably not being brought up well. The child protection services people started visiting the Bhattacharya household for an hour every week and decided that Sagarika was not capable of looking after her children as she “was in depression, tired and had no patience”. They said the mother “over-fed” her child, fed with fingers and the boy slept with his father. Among the reasons listed by Norwegian child welfare authorities for taking away the three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter of an expatriate Indian couple were unsuitable toys and clothes, insufficient room for the children to play in the house and the son not having his own bed. The couple, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, have battled the Child Welfare Services in Stavenger, 500 km from the Norwegian capital, for the last eight months against these and other perceived shortcomings in their parenting. It began when, acting on complaints from the local child care centre at Stavenger, where Anurup works as a geo-scientist with American firm Halliburton, the couple were placed under observation by the area's state-run Child Welfare Services. After a few visits, on May 12, 2011, child welfare workers took away the Bhattacharyas' son, who was then two, and five-month-old daughter and placed them in an emergency shelter. Four days later, the parents appealed the case before the County Board, which hears appeals in child welfare and social cases. The Board was sympathetic to the couple. This is what it said: “The county has noted that there is a danger that the child could fall down from the bathinette and hurt itself. During the case, it became clear that the couple does not own a basinette/diaper-changing table. The child's diapers are being changed on a bed, an arrangement much lower than a traditional Norwegian basinette/diaper-changing table. *‘No accidents'* “To this point, there have been no accidents while changing the diapers of the child… The most important and conclusive point being: There was no emergency in the home prior to the Child Welfare Services' first visit in the family home. The problems occurred after representatives from the Child Welfare Services arrived in the home. The mother got scared when it dawned on her that the Child Welfare Services' might place her children outside of their own home. That was a difficult situation, but the problems of this situation should have been solved in a different and more thought-out way, as opposed to deciding to send the children to an emergency shelter.” On the 23rd of May, the county board concluded: “The requirements of the law for emergency decisions of this kind were not fulfilled when the decision was made. The conditions for maintaining the decision are not fulfilled either… In the short term, there is reason to believe that the conditions of the home will change, as the parents of the mother are coming to Norway to help their daughter. The decision to place the children outside the home is hereby cancelled.” *New turn* The Child Welfare Service appealed the sentence in the city court of Stavanger, where the case took a new turn. Its list of complaints against the parents was long. It said it had “severe doubts” about the parents' ability to take care of their children, stating that its main concern was that the mother did not “maintain” the children's emotional needs. The mother had admitted to slapping the son at one point, but the Child Welfare Service noted that this was something she had never done again after she became aware that it was illegal under Norwegian law. Further, it listed other reasons, such as the house not having sufficient room to play, and toys that were not age-suitable for the children, the son not having his own bed, or linen or suitable clothes for his size. *Mother's behaviour* It expressed concern over the way the mother interacted with the infant daughter. Noting that she handled the daughter with “sudden movements” it concluded she was unable to hold the child in a proper way. It said that the when the mother breast-fed the infant, she put her on her lap without holding her, holding the head against the breast, but not close to her body. The court decided that both the children would be taken from their home, and that the time the parents would be allowed to meet their children would be set to two hours, twice a year. The court also pointed out that the grandparents' visit to Norway, which the county board had emphasised as positive for the family, was for a
Re: [Assam] assam Digest, Vol 68, Issue 31
Befitting reply to boycott call, scribes celebrate Republic Day Guwahati, January 26: Journalists and other patriotic citizens gathered in the Guwahati Press Club premises on Thursday to celebrate the Republic Day in what can be called yet another befitting reply to the boycott-mongering militants. Hoisting the National Tricolour, senior journalist Hiten Mahanta said it is the courage and determination of the people that has again and again foiled secessionist attempts to arm-twist the patriots not to celebrate the Independence and Republic Days. Because, at the end of the day, it is the people upon whose support insurgency survives. Without people’s support insurgency withers away. So, Army and other security operations are only one side of the story, Mahanta pointed out and added that insurgency is a failure because there was no taker among the people to the call for an independent Assam. Even the handful of journalists, who at one time sided with the militants, have now changed their tone in sync with the changed situation. Earlier, senior journalist Rupam Baruah explained the significance of the Day and underscored the need to remember the martyrs who died in those days to make sure the fellow countrymen could live. Baruah also deplored the move by some circles to portray Jana Gana Mana, the National Anthem, as a composition by Rabindra Nath Tagore to eulogize George the Fifth. It was a great patriotic song dedicated to the people of India, he asserted. Later, a procession was taken out, where the participants raised slogans upholding the concept of the Indian nationhood and condemning all moves to denounce it. Those who attended programme included Nava Thakuria, Ranen Kumar Goswami, Mukul Kalita, Sabita Lahkar, Dhiren Baruah, Jagadindra Ray Choudhury, Soumyadeep Dutta and Kishor Giri. - Original Message - From: assam-requ...@assamnet.org assam-requ...@assamnet.org To: assam@assamnet.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2011 12:00 PM Subject: assam Digest, Vol 68, Issue 31 Send assam mailing list submissions to assam@assamnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to assam-requ...@assamnet.org You can reach the person managing the list at assam-ow...@assamnet.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of assam digest... Today's Topics: 1. Elections in Assam (Arindam Garg) 2. Article (rupam baruah) 3. Article (anitak goswami) 4. (no subject) (anitak goswami) 5. Re: Fwd :: Major Scams of North East (Babul Gogoi) 6. let the party begin ! (Ram Dhar) 7. celebrations across India after the win (Ram Dhar) 8. cricket madness - just being essentially Indian :-) (Ram Dhar) 9. video - frenzied celebrations in India (Ram Dhar) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:27:19 +0530 (IST) From: Arindam Garg zga...@yahoo.co.in To: xo...@googlegroups.com, assam@assamnet.org, assamonl...@yahoogroups.com, northeastin...@yahoogroups.com, silc...@yahoogroups.com, axomiya_stude...@yahoogroups.com, assamsoci...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Assam] Elections in Assam Message-ID: 485598.72946...@web95616.mail.in.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear All, ? Elections are round the corner in Assam. Having spent most of my life outside Assam, I would be voting in Guwahati after a long time. I thought of penning down a few things on the elections?which may interest many of you outside. ? 1) You can?t open the news channels. Speaker after speaker is making promises. How I wish that even if they do half of it, a lot would be achieved. ? 2) You can?t travel. I made the mistake of visiting Arunachal for some work. The highway was blocked by rallies. On top of that there was a call for Bandh in Sonitpur? District by the Adivasis and they were sitting with poisoned arrows on the highway. A car of one marriage party was set ablaze. I had to wait till 5 pm in the evening to move with an escort. The next day there was again a call for a Bandh in entire Sonitpur District and believe it or not, the call was given by an aspirant of the Congress party who failed to get the nomination in his constituency. One man holding an entire district to ransom for not getting a nomination. Is there a law against this or this is possible in a democracy, I do not know. 3) Congress Office, Rajib Bhawan in shambles. First a bomb blast and then its own workers tearing it apart. Workers in the sense, ticket seekers who did not get their nominations and their supporters. 4) Himanta Biswa Sarma seems to be the star campaigner for Congress. He is everywhere. 5) Prafulla K Mahanta contesting from two seats.
Re: [Assam] [assam] Republic Day of India Celebration by New York Times in 2012
Dear Friends: New Work Times, India Link, has the following today (27 01 2012): From the Archives: Republic Day 1958 .New York Times celebrated Indian Republic Day yesterday by recalling its editorial written more than a half-century ago. What a marvellous idea! Images of Republic Day 2012 India's Political Blasphemy A repeat -bhuban . ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] [assam] Republic Day of India Celebration by New York Times in 2012
Dear Friends: New Work Times, India Link, has the following today (27 01 2012): From the Archives: Republic Day 1958 .New York Times celebrated Indian Republic Day yesterday by recalling its editorial written more than a half-century ago. What a marvellous idea! Images of Republic Day 2012 India's Political Blasphemy A repeat -bhuban . ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
