Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEA

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEA O'Rajen: > At 8:08 PM -0600 1/22/06, Barua25 wrote: Chandan thinks that is a 'xogunor xaw wish' to wish ULFA money to be spent for Assam. *** I feel so bad that this damned English language is  causing you so much grief!  Why don't you ask some

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hi Mayur: No offense taken. >But on the point of "--- You try to trivialise and romanticise the >issues depending on their suitability >to support your points." Why don't you pick out and show us WHERE and WHEN you have seen such examples, with a little explanation on how it supports your p

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
 >Over the years, as we all know, they have done very well and companies like Godrej and Tata are global players today.   So this is what we see for India. For trade, commerce and industry, Parses are big contributors. They came to India around 10th century, and were forced to do trade like

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread mayur bora
Dear C da I have high regards for you notwithstanding our differences on many issues pertaining to Assam. What can be a better way of showing my respect to you than by quoting you from your earlier mail. This will incidentally act as my response to your latest post. "You remain mired in your own

[Assam] 18,203 criminals in Assam politics

2006-01-22 Thread bg
There are 18,203 criminals in Assam politics. - B B Tandon, Chief Election Commissioner   Can we file for the list of these great people thru RTI?   Some interesting links: http://rti.gov.in/Members/assam     18203.doc Description: MS-Word document ___

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
MM da,   >Brit Passports were available for all Indians. There was no Visas till '60's. Darker Parsis were not >sure if they will do well in England. Look what happened to White Iranians in US/UK. Wonder why many Indians then did not choose to migrate at that time. Was it because they feared discri

Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEA

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
<< But ULFA is not saying that. That is the problem.>>>   If that is THE PROBLEM    all stand solved We stand United!!! mm From: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "mc mahant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: Subject: Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEADate: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:08:20 -0600 It is alwa

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
99% Indian Jews left for Israel. Brit Passports were available for all Indians. There was no Visas till '60's. Darker Parsis were not sure if they will do well in England. Look what happened to White Iranians in US/UK. Entrepreneurship needs  familiarity and special skills. Where would Parsees hav

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Someone mentioned Parsees under this header. The Parsees it seems fled from Iran (due to persecution there), some went to Europe while a small group came to India.   The British were very much at ease with them, and when they left offered them British Passports. But they did not want them, so inste

Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEA

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
It is always fair that a major part of the profit from oil and tea produced from Assam should go to the people of Assam. But ULFA is not saying that. That is the problem. Problem is that today nobody in Assam is voicing that. When ULFA asks for money it asks for itself, not for the people o

Re: [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
So produce all their need in Gujarat and in  the Bay of Bengal and leave Assam sitting pretty!mm From:  Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:  Assam Organisation Subject:  [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - TelegraphDate:  Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:26:58 -0600 Assam gets Rs. 894 crs compared t

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
<>> Exept the Bangla Banias, the  Saha,Raha,Naha. Gujus,Mero's built for themselves -as always. Trickle down effect was the small gain. Brit. merchant houses did their major work . Tea HQ's,Tea Auction Centre, now-defunct port,Rail Start Centre, all help tilldate. We st

Re: [Assam] GREEN GOLD: THE EMPIRE OF TEA

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
.<<<..It would only seem fair that some of the wealth generated by green gold, which has hitherto flowed elsewhere, should help the people of Assam." >>> Now that Mac said so -it is gospel! Imagine what would have been response ,had it come from ULFA! mm   From: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: C

[Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Assam gets Rs. 894 crs compared to Gujarat Rs. 1,131 crs. Output Assam 4.5 mill.tons/year, Gujarat 6.1 mill. tons/yr. ONGC is producing about 6.1 million tonnes of crude a year from its fields in Gujarat. There is not too much of a difference between the recoverable crude reserves in Assam, which a

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
<To: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chan

Re: [Assam] The all powerful 'oil weapon' is the talk of the town!

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
Bartta Bistar's piece shouts about "50 Billion Rupees". Somebody  moaned 5Bn $!  My, My!mm From: "Bartta Bistar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] The all powerful 'oil weapon' is the talk of the town!Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:41:59 +   Meanwhile in India... http:/

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan At 5:11 PM -0600 1/22/06, Barua25 wrote: > Yes, and I can VOUCH for that. >Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who >generated it at the then working web-site called Scott Pakin's Automatic Complain Gene

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan > Yes, and I can VOUCH for that. >Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who >generated it at the then working web-site called Scott Pakin's Automatic Complain Generator. >I withheld his name purposel

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
 >Bengalis did not have a tradition of becoming little traders in the same way Marwaris and Gujaraties were.   BB: Thanks. You did answer one important issue I was raising. That is the Tradition or lack of it. Another thing to be noted is that whatever success of West Bengal on trade and co

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Roy, Santanu
Wow! Certainly had me fooled. One learns new things every day... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chan Mahanta Sent: Mon 1/23/2006 6:16 AM To: Barua25; Ram Sarangapani Cc: assam@assamnet.org Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta At

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
>>I think Barua's letter is computer generated gibberish. >>RB > Yes, and I can VOUCH for that.   >Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who >generated it at the then working web-site called Scott Pakin's Automatic Complain Generator. >I withheld his name purposely :-).

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread BBaruah
Barua Saheb & Other participants   The problem of West Bengal’s slow pace of industrial development in comparison with states like Kerala, Gujarat, Punjab etc requires careful study inside a well-stocked library.  I do not have either the time or facilities for such a serious pursuit but I w

[Assam] A Complaint Against AssamNet from June 2000

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
> > > >> >>From: Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>Reply-To: Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>To: AssamNet >>> >>Subject: My complaint about AssamNet >>> >>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:10:25 -0400 (EDT) >>> >> >>> >>My complaint about AssamNet >>> >> >>> >>I realize that everyo

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan At 3:11 PM -0600 1/22/06, Barua25 wrote: I think Barua's letter is computer generated gibberish. RB Yes, and I can VOUCH for that. Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who generated it at the then

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
I think Barua's letter is computer generated gibberish. RB   - Original Message - From: Ram Sarangapani To: Chan Mahanta Cc: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

[Assam] The all powerful 'oil weapon' is the talk of the town!

2006-01-22 Thread Bartta Bistar
  Meanwhile in India... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2006/01/meanwhile_in_in.html   Assam's (the source of half of India's domestic oil) global guerrillas got the message from Iraq (like Nigeria) and decided to launch a more disciplined campaign: The lull in the otherwise violent-

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Roy, Santanu
With such high standards of literary expression as in the forwarded mail - the assmnet may well consider going for a print edition. The author even uses the term "analytic/synthetic dichotomy" - wow - good schooling in philosphy, perhaps freshly, and in classical writing. I hope the author "Bar

[Assam] Rediff: Tips to be a champion at marketing - Culture Gap & warfare

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/20bspec.htm?q=bp&file=.htm   This article gives us info about the tradtional concept of marketing for markets about whose socio-cultural mores you are well aware of.   If you want to your products to be in demand in new markets -- such as Assamese products

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya At 7:43 PM + 1/22/06, umesh sharma wrote: C-da,   I think my reponse was adequate to your comments about the news-report. Any child can see that . *** And I rest my case.   Umesh Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel Ram: You, I am sure will state that all this not ULFA's doing and it must be someone else.   Lets do this:   If its ULFA - what would your (you, PCG, MRG, others) responses be?   What can I say? You are trying too darn hard my friend! Give it a res

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial At 1:25 PM -0600 1/22/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote: C'da,   I also have similar doubts about the Sentinel/AT and the rest. But look at this case. Two teens, barely famous, on dead teacher shot by miscreants, and  a chase ensues.   We can surmise/specul

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,   I wonder why use chose to comment about the authenticity of one news-article and not question the same for this one. Do you wish to believe that ULFA is brave enough to kill defense personnel but not coward enough to kill school teachers (as in the other article)?   UmeshChan Mahanta <[

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,   I think my reponse was adequate to your comments about the news-report. Any child can see that .   UmeshChan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>You can go ahead and also prove that ULFA is a figment of imagination. A work of some mischief makers who release leaflets and press re

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel Your deliberative process is a real piece of work Umesh! Did I ask you to believe it was ULFA's doing? I merely forwarded the news without ANY commentary. You are free to believe anything you wish to. One would expect you to read and comprehend at a hi

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   You, I am sure will state that all this not ULFA's doing and it must be someone else.   Lets do this:   If its ULFA - what would your (you, PCG, MRG, others) responses be?   --Ram  On 1/22/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Serial  blasts rattle StateULFA punches holes in  Assam se

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya >You can go ahead and also prove that ULFA is a figment of imagination. A work of some mischief makers who release leaflets and press releases from time to time whereas all these killings are merely the work of common criminal element

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   I also have similar doubts about the Sentinel/AT and the rest. But look at this case. Two teens, barely famous, on dead teacher shot by miscreants, and  a chase ensues.   We can surmise/speculate the following: The assilants were GOI agents or sulfa or just plain homegrown murderers (preten

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,   Going by your earlier email's logic why should we believe the newsmedia that it was ULFA and not some Islamic jihadis who undertook the balst? And if you do believe so then why not also believe the newsmedia when it says that the school teacher was also a victim of ULFA's wrath?   Umesh

Re: [Assam] [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: The tiger (and rhino??) re-appears - CSE news bulletin [Jan.10, 2006]

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
Mayur-da,   You miss the woods for the trees . I did make a mistake in writing Parag Das instead of Prahlad Goala but you made another by ridiculing the issue of rhino hunting and tmber smuggling.   What are your views on environmental protection in Assam?   Umesh   mayur bora <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Assam] The tiger (and rhino??) re-appears - CSE news bulletin [Jan.10, 2006]

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
  Ram-da,   I am sorry I got mixed up with names of the journos killed. I meant Prahlad Goala and NOT Parag Das - as in the post below: http://www.mail-archive.com/assam%40assamnet.org/msg02858.html   "the death of Prahlad Goala, who was apparently murdered on January 6. Goala had recently w

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,   You can go ahead and also prove that ULFA is a figment of imagination. A work of some mischief makers who release leaflets and press releases from time to time whereas all these killings are merely the work of common criminal elements in Assam -such as smugglers etc.   Iran's President

[Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Serial blasts rattle State ULFA punches holes in Assam security shield Our Bureau With inputs from Guwahati, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Tingkhong Jan 22: Barely ten minutes after IGP (SB) Khagen Sarma claimed that the situation in the State was normal, the outla

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial Same old, same old! WHY did the supposed ULFA cadres shoot Jiten Das? What was the motive, as verified or even speculated? WHO (and HOW ) determined that the two perpetrators are indeed ULFA? Is it a guess, a mere accusation, a confession obtain

[Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
The two students who are defenders for the school football team, took the lead on the fateful day on May 10, 2004 in giving a hot chase to the two militants who had shot dead an assistant teacher Jiten Das (37) in front of the school. One needs to read deep into their spontaneous act of heroics pro

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   >Me too.  Even gibberish could end up looking like high-falutin' stuff.   It sure does. Its that 'damn language thang' acting up again.   But this is more benign than the other stuff you get from time to time.   --Ram  On 1/22/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:40 AM -0600 1

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan At 10:40 AM -0600 1/22/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote: C'da,   At least you would agree that the author (this Barua) seems to have a pretty good command over the language and a good vocabulary (I had the dictionary open). *** You wo

[Assam] On Boycotting E-Mail

2006-01-22 Thread bg
 Communicating Alan Lightman On Boycotting E-Mail 10.24.05, 9:00 AM ET Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist and educator. He is adjunct professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of books including Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis. I've

[Assam] The Dangers Of E-Mail

2006-01-22 Thread bg
 Communicating Jane Goodall On The Dangers Of E-Mail 10.24.05, 9:00 AM ET Jane Goodall is a renowned primatologist best known for conducting a 40-year study of chimpanzee social and family life at Gombe Stream in Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a leading organizati

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da,   At least you would agree that the author (this Barua) seems to have a pretty good command over the language and a good vocabulary (I had the dictionary open). From my experience (and thats not much) there are only a handful of NRAs with those talents (if the author is a NRA).   Other than

[Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
>X-Originating-IP: [38.10.4.227] >From: "Tilok Hatimuria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta >Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:34 PDT > >Dear Raiz: > >This oomplaining bidness seems to have found a life of its o

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: RE: Dainik Agradoot Hi Mayur: There used to be a web-site, in which one could create/generate high-sounding gobledy-gook about any subject or person, replete with obscure words and phrases, peppered with French and Latin phrases and quotes of luminaries, real or made up, on the spot, fro

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
Are they representatives or number counts? Again how many each  of how many manipulated parties? We know your simplistic logic. Thanks anyway! mm   From:  Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:  mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC:  [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], assam@assamnet.orgSubject: 

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Santanoo Medhi
Rajib is right on lune when he mentioned that Bengalis git babudom and nothing else from Brits. Also, they became complacent assuming that once leading in industrialization, they will remain so. Perhaps Brits foresaw that this is what will become of Bongs and hence decided to move capital to De

[Assam] Taslima & her Brhmaputra roots : Tussle between TWO Assamese translations.

2006-01-22 Thread Bartta Bistar
    News from Assamiya Khabor dated 22 January 2006   http://www.assamiyakhabor.com/news3.htm   Controversy on translations of two books : Is Taslima aware of it?     The above news piece in Assamese is mainly about Taslima Nasrin’s book on the internet  ‘Amar Meye Bela’ ( My girlhood) and two As

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread mayur bora
Dear C da Mayur again with his rusted keyboard, trying to withstand the plethora of charges flying thick and fast from St Louis, USA. You are like hurricane Katrina to me threatening to obliterate my defences most of the time in a ruthless way. Luckily, it always proves to be an empty threat. But