[Assam] The GOLDEN PEN to sign away Assam's legitimate Sovereignty rights, reappears.

2006-01-02 Thread Bartta Bistar
ULFA Govt won't hold talks with ULFA till it give up arms NEW DELHI , JAN 2 (PTI) http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=345859 The Centre is unlikely to hold peace talks with banned insurgent outfit ULFA till the outfit gives up arms and drop their demand of "soverignty" for Assam. "Govern

[Assam] Duggal holding a Domboroo & a leach wants the PCG to dance to his tune.

2006-01-02 Thread Bartta Bistar
PCG awaits call OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060103/asp/guwahati/story_5674174.asp New Delhi, Jan. 2: There is confusion in the Union home ministry and the Ulfa-constituted People’s Consultative Group (PCG) over when the next round of talks should be held. On being ask

Re: [Assam] Assam Trip-2

2006-01-02 Thread Mridul Bhuyan
Thanks for letting people know about the real fighters.   Regards   MridulChan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dear Netters,I spoke about the very fine things that the Rural Volunteer Center ( RVC) is doing at Akajan. Ravindranath  and his wife Sathyasree Goswami, who live at Sila

Re: [Assam] Upaai Nai Culture - Sentinel

2006-01-02 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Hi Santanu,   That was some lucid analysis. In the end I was caught between 'Hobo dia' and 'Upaai nai' :)   >Culturally, I see a move from "Hobo Diok" to "Upaai Nai" as a great sign of progress   Hmm! I don't know. To me it sounds like a whole society has resigned to its fate. Or maybe even like wh

Re: [Assam] Upaai Nai Culture - Sentinel

2006-01-02 Thread Roy, Santanu
Raaiz: Notun bochhor xubechha. Bohu dinor murot kiba eta likhibor mon goicche. Upaai nai:-) Culturally, I see a move from "Hobo Diok" to "Upaai Nai" as a great sign of progress. Hobo Diok sympolizes quiet acceptance of all that is, but not necessarily any understanding of it. The neighbor wa

Re: [Assam] Upaai Nai Culture - Sentinel

2006-01-02 Thread mc mahant
Yes , add to that Himenra's Eternal Hindu Recipe   > Super-Power Status. Instead, India should lead the> world with the ideology of nispriha karma> (unattached work) by working for lokasangraha> (wellbeing of everybody) with the force of niskama> prema (causeless love) as perfected in the teac

[Assam] Churchill took hardline on Gandhi

2006-01-02 Thread Barua25
  Churchill took hardline on Gandhi   Gandhi was eventually assassinated by Hindu extremists in 1948Winston Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike, newly published Cabinet papers show. The UK's WWII prime minister thought India's

Re: [Assam] Upaai Nai Culture - Sentinel

2006-01-02 Thread Barua25
Ram: Thanks. It seems the Upai Nai culture is a bit more negative than the typical Hobo Diok Assamese culture. The following is an example: Before, Assamese used to say in case of corruption, Hobo Diok which is if one notice is same as saying Eibar Xenor Ejat. Or you don't know what the hel

Re: [Assam] ATAN BURAGOHAIN SAKO

2006-01-02 Thread Chan Mahanta
Dear Himen-da: > > We should part as friends as if nothing happened. *** That I have no quarrel with :-). Best. c At 1:22 PM -0800 1/2/06, Himendra Thakur wrote: >Dear Chandan, > > > >I am really impressed by the openness of the assam.net & assam.org, but I >still find it difficult t

Re: [Assam] Will it stick?

2006-01-02 Thread Ram Sarangapani
>Until the system gets reformed to make accountability a way of life, such dare devil acts by >investigative reporters will have to performed at regular intervals to keep the law makers and the >law executors in check. I admire the tenacity of the Tehelka group.   But also the public - they too sh

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da   >That Ram is called accountability. It is  DETERRENCE   I fully agree its a major component. The laws do exist for such punishment, and they would be implemented at a much faster speed if the 'public', the media and others are on top it it and expose corrupt individuals and till punishments

[Assam] Will it stick?

2006-01-02 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
The writer of the attached article is going ga ga over the first step towards accountability. Will this first wobbly step become stronger and firmer? If the citizens provide support to the likes of Tehelka, there is a chance. What are the chances of such events taking place at state government le

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth? Ram, You repeated a whole bunch of vague generalities, hoping for some miracle to change attitudes. You did not have a single practical, achievable means to suggest, like a functioning governmental system MUST have. Let me give you another

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   >That the govt. is inefficient, the people are corrupt. Only thing you did not repeat is that the >Assamese are lazy too   I am surprised. I have never said people are LAZY. You may have drawn some implications or confused me with someone else.  But thats OK - I have had words put in my mou

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth? Ram: I am perfectly willing to go right along with you, and hold GoA's feet to the fire. But I don't know how. Just like all the other people in Assam that would like to do just that. That is why I asked you, I asked Rajen to show all these

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   >So, your gripe is with pointing fingers at GoI.   Not at all. But when we do so, it might be fair to point some of those fingers inward - toward Assam as well. We do need to have some sense of introspection.   >But GoA derives its existence and its powers from Goi's doings and in its imag

[Assam] Fwd: My two letters missing from Assam-org

2006-01-02 Thread J Kalita
--- Himendra Thakur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Himendra Thakur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "J Kalita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "mc mahant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "MANOJ KUMAR DAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: My two letters missing fro

Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth?

2006-01-02 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Illegal Bangladeshis, is it a myth? Rajen: >That exactly means independence first before we do anything. That is another way of saying we >cannot do anything now till we achieve independence. *** You can prove your point -- that things could be turned around for Assam within