Re: [Assam] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread SANDIP DUTTA
Dear Sri Mahanta, I have been reading your posts for some time. Your favourite root cause of all evils seems to be the dysfunctional desi demokrasy. Actually this sort of a sweeping banishment is akin to blaming global warming for the failure of GMC to supply clean and hygenic drinking

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Re: [Assam] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hello Sandip Dutta: Good to receive your response. Also am glad that you saw some of my posts. The idea is to promote a meaningful dialogue/discussion. I will be the first to admit that my assessments, opinions and analyses could be entirely wrong or without any substance. But it needs to be

Re: [Assam] Arrival of my daughter

2006-11-17 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hearty congratulations Dipankar. And our best to all four of you. cm At 10:03 AM +0530 11/17/06, Dipankar Malla Baruah (Well Logging wrote: Hi Everyone, I am happy to announce the arrival of our second child, a daughter on 5th November, 2006. Dipankar D M Baruah Dy Supdtng

Re: [Assam] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hello Sandip Dutta: Good to receive your response. Also am glad that you saw some of my posts. The idea is to promote a meaningful dialogue/discussion. I will be the first to admit that my assessments, opinions and analyses could be entirely wrong or without any substance. But it needs to be

Re: [Assam] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Ram Sarangapani
http://www.sacw.net/Gujarat2002/BinaSr_130804.html Came across this piece about the Indian Democracy. At first I thoght C'da had written it - but no, it was someone else :) --Ram On 11/17/06, Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sandip Dutta: Good to receive your response. Also am

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread mc mahant
Why are you all zeroing on to just one Bureaucrat?Poor chap is at least repenting hiswasted life and career. Why not on to the total system of million loafersof Government who cannot perform one bit. And on to DemoKrasy itself? And onto the 1950 Indian Constitution- copied from other rubbish? mm

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Ankur Bora
Shantikam hazarika faced all the hardles , red tape , bureaucratic delay , general apathy to build the Assam Institute of management as a premier Institution. He had the guts to sail against the winds. There are others like him who have been working selflessly to provide basic education to the

Re: [Assam] quick help

2006-11-17 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
'mone mone' means secretively also, that's what I don't like. 'mountota' or 'nirovota' will be a better fit, IMO. Thanks again for the input. From: "Rajen Ajanta Barua" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],assam@assamnet.orgSubject:

Re: [Assam] [asom] Education and Mother Tongue

2006-11-17 Thread mc mahant
But what do you do in the present scenario? If your new ones (born outside Assam) have to go to non-Assamese schools--try teaching them Assamese at home-'riting/reading- so that they are in control of speech andliteracylater. If you live in Assam, there should be no problem--evenyour child goesto

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread mc mahant
You said it all. So shout out loud and clear"We want what Ulfa wants. Nothing else." mm From: "Saikia, Hrishikesh IN BLR SISL" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "s hazarika" [EMAIL PROTECTED],assamonline@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [asom] Assamese Fears and SavioursDate: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:26:13 +0530

Re: [Assam] [asom] Refugee Problems and Minority Persecution in Bangladesh

2006-11-17 Thread mc mahant
Surplus Land Manojbhai-there will be no Surplus land. If somebody allotted land-bring that alotter to us-we will ask him 'Who gave you the authority to give away?' If the giver is not found-the allotment stands null and void.There will be shelters and there will be lots of work for everyone.

Re: [Assam] See Assam In An Online Gallery

2006-11-17 Thread Chan Mahanta
Dear Tridib: I did visit your web site and saw the images of your paintings. Sorry I could not respond earlier. I do like quite a few of them. They do touch a chord in those of us who grew up in the environment you have been attempting to record and interpret.And I like to think they do even

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Rajen Ajanta Barua
It is because the total system is a sum of the individual contributions. When you question the total system, you actually try to diffuse the responsility and individual accountability. It is like waiting for somebody to remove the mystic 'poisoned arrow' so that everything will be suddenly fine

Re: [Assam] quick help

2006-11-17 Thread Rajen Ajanta Barua
I think we should close the topic. Personal likes and dislikes are different things, always subjective and may not have to be based on rational. Barua - Original Message - From: Alpana B. Sarangapani To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread SANDIP DUTTA
Entirely Aggree!! Rgds, Sandip - Original Message From: Rajen Ajanta Barua [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 11:16:37 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours It is because

[Assam] New Dutch Ban

2006-11-17 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
Is this an infringement on free practice of religion? Is it also curbing cultural freedom? Are they going to put the 50 women wearing Burqa in jail for refusing to obey the law? Are the Sikhs next in line because they also can hide a weapon under the headgear? The standard winter outer

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
I think we all agree in this net that one big problem in India is enforcement of the myriads of laws. This enforcement is one of the main responsibilities of the IAS officials. If they don't do it for fear of reprisal and dismissal by the elected officials, they are shirking their

Re: [Assam] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread SANDIP DUTTA
Quite good and ends with a +ve note. She is free to beleive what she wants and follow the faith she likes because thats how a democratic society works. Rgds, SD - Original Message From: Ram Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: assam@assamnet.org Sent:

Re: [Assam] quick help

2006-11-17 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Dear Barua: I think we should close the topic. I agree and I thought I already thanked everyone and did close it. Apparently it has been reopened. This was not really about what I like or dislike. When I said I did not like a particular word, all that was meant was that I thought I wouldn't be

Re: [Assam] quick help

2006-11-17 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
In any case, once again, I sincerely thank you and others for all your inis simply incomplete in this case,and does not do justice to the rich heritage of the Assamese language. puts in parsing this out. I apologize for this mix up - clicked on 'send' too early. In essence I meant to writethis:

Re: [Assam] [asom] Education and Mother Tongue

2006-11-17 Thread BBaruah
Dear Mike This is a blueprint for the entire education policy of the State Government. Bhuban ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

Re: [Assam] [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours

2006-11-17 Thread BBaruah
Law enforcement is indeed a problem. Every IAS/IPS officer confronts it at some point of their career. Unfortunately these knowledgeable people do not take part in Assam Net to give us the benefit of a firsthand account. One or two people have however left some accounts in their published