Rajen-da,
Thanks for your comment. While searching for the OIDB act on the net I found a lot of newspaper reports showing concern over the act. I think somehow people take it for granted that the money collected through CESS can be utilized to balance deficit budgets, which makes me wonder if the
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/29raman.htm?q=sp&file=.htm terrorism in BangaloreMalabika Brahma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This is hardly surprising. I remember reading in the paper couple of months back that the intelligence department had unearthed plans of certain groups whereby they had
Priyankoo:
Thanks for doing this service to
the netters.
I had a talk with Mr Gautam Prasad
Baruah in Kolkata on the subject last night.
He really appreciates
that we people here are showing interests on the welfare of Assam. He told me
that Assamese people living overseas can really do a
I agree, the review is really good.
There seem to be some printer's errors that I noticed (In the AT
piece). One is McGraw-Hill publishers in the last para. Hopefully, it
hasn't carried over to the book itself.
I congratulate both you and Dr.Sarma and look forward to reading the
book when availab
Title: Re: [Assam] A Book on TEA
TECHNOLOGY
Well written review.
cm
At 4:44 PM -0600 12/29/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
The following review by me was recently published in
Assam tribune. The book is not available in the USA at present. One
will have to write to the publisher.
RB
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The following review by
me was recently published in Assam tribune. The book is not available in the USA
at present. One will have to write to the publisher.
RB
-
BOOK REVIEW
TEA TECHNOLOG
Protest in Pakistan against
dam
The political parties of three provinces oppose the
dam projectThousands
have held a rally in Pakistan's North West Frontier provin
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam for Assamese
At 4:21 PM -0600 12/29/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
>I will let YOU decide
who.
Thanks.
I
have decided.
It
is YOU
RB
*** Thanks. I knew you would.
- Original Message -
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen
Barua ; assam@assamnet.org
Sent: T
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam for Assamese
>I will let YOU decide who.
Thanks.
I have decided.
It is YOU
RB
- Original Message -
From:
Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen Barua ; assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:02
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam for
As
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam for Assamese
>Here:
*** If that is what you understood from what I wrote, then we
have a serious communication problem. Someone needs a dramatic
improvement on ordinary English comprehension.
I will let YOU decide who.
At 3:51 PM -0600 12/29/05, Rajen Barua w
Title: Language
>Assamese based
on ethnicity (according to your definition of
Assamese)
*** When or where did *I* write the above?
>And does what I wrote mean the above?
> those will have to be
assimilated into Assames
*** Will you show us WHERE and WHEN I
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for Assamese
- Original Message -
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen Barua ;
assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] is for Assamese
>ALL THE LEGAL
RESIDENTS OF ASSAM ARE ASSAMESE.
*** Legal according to WHOSE law
Thank you for reading my email. But I feel cheated because you commented without going into the details. If you read the link I attached and other available material, you will see that a great number of the Ahom kings did not favor Xankardev's movement, in fact hindered it. A few liked what Xankard
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/29inter1.htm?q=np&file=.htmUmesh Sharma5121 Lackwanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class of 2005
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Title: Language
>I did not
drag
you into
discussion.
*** Language again! I did not suggest you dragged ME. You
dragged the SUBJECT into it.
See: >-- because YOU dragged the matter into the
discussion.
>Assamese
based on
ethnicity
(according to your definition of Assamese)
*** When or where
Title: Re: [Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom
Kings
>Am I missing something here?
*** What immediately jumps out is:
">because of the people living in Assam" (--but not
Ahoms -- since their king did not patronize 'xotriya'
culture?)
Who were these people then?
*** The second one is that the
While browsing today, I came across this 'work in progress' (from the
editor's note)article by Jaideep Saikia from Guwahati. The title of
the article is " The Crescent Waxes Eastward" What I read so far makes
quite an interesting reading with great references and quotes, and I
have not heard nette
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for Assamese
>*** Yes, as a matter of fact I did consider it my solemn duty to
defend the concept of Assam for the Assamese as *I* saw it in
the context, because YOU >dragged the matter into the discussion.
I did not drag you into discussion.
You did it on your o
Assamese culture may have reached its zenith during Ahom rule, chronologically; But did the rulers help? What culture are we talking about? Culture spread by the Xatras like Bhaona, Xatriya Nritya etc.? If so we cannot give a lot of credit to the Ahom kings' administration for the growth of Assames
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for
Assamese
>ALL THE
LEGAL RESIDENTS OF ASSAM ARE ASSAMESE.
*** Legal according to WHOSE laws?
At 9:45 AM -0600 12/29/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
>I
provided you with my OWN interpretation, which you had trouble
comprehending.
>That is
because you could not d
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for
Assamese
>Why you had to
provide an interpretation at all for and on behalf of Sumanat?. You
could not sleep or you thought >it was your solemn duty as a
nopota phukon for the sake of the netters?.
*** Yes, as a matter of fact I did consider it my solemn duty to
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for Assamese
>I provided
you with my OWN interpretation, which you had trouble comprehending.
>That is because you could not differentiate between the
concepts of nationality and ethnicity, It is that 'damned English
language problem', not just with >yourself, bu
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for Assamese
But you NEVER told us WHAT his 'jatiyotabadi' writings proposed or
included. You are the one who was privy to what Sumanta had in mind. Or are YOU
guessing here?
Since you would NOT tell us what Sumanta had in mind I provided you with my
OWN interpret
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for Assamese
*** That is YOUR opinion, and you are entitled to it.
You don't have to repeat what I already
told.
RB
- Original Message -
From:
Chan
Mahanta
To: Barua25 ; Dilip/Dil Deka
Cc: assam@assamnet.org
Sent: Thursday, December
Title: Re: An Apology
Dear Himen-da,
I don't post to assam.org and I don't know how to do it.
From what you describe here it appears that I will have to become a
MEMBER of assam.org to be able to post to it.
So I am posting it to Assam Net. Like I did the original post.
These do show up in t
Title: Re: [Assam] Assam is for
Assamese
>I just wanted
to show that 'Assam for Assamese' theme simply does not work whichever
way we look at it.
*** That is YOUR opinion, and you are entitled to it.
You started off with saying you do not agree with Sumanta's
" I donot
necessarily support his A
Dear Mike
As attached
Bhuban
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It was a pleasant surprise reading this from The Dawn. If Pakistanis
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exactly would satisfy our own homegrown naysayers?
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India's achievements in 2005
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