[Assam] It is well known how saintly are the India controlled police force in Assam! Why not commission an impartial inquiry into ALL the incidents where the ULFA has not claimed responsibility? Is it

2007-05-29 Thread Bartta Bistar
Ulfa denies role in blasts A STAFF REPORTER http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070530/asp/northeast/story_7847505.asp *Guwahati, May 29:* A day after the people of Guwahati sent a strong message by observing a total bandh against the string of blasts in the city, Ulfa came out with a statement deny

Re: [Assam] Masor tenga Anja

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da Hehehe! It been sooo long - I have forgotten the taste of roh mas. The last time we were in Guwahati, we were told that there was a 'fish scare' and too many chaloni-maas around - so we went for the chicken. So, what is the equivalent of the roh maas here? The B'deshi out h

Re: [Assam] Masor tenga Anja

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Ram, Ram, Ram. Tumi ki eibwr maasor xaanmiholi korila-he'? Catfish is the equivalent of maagur maas, but not really. It is more like 'aanri maas'. Tilapia is like a humongous 'bheseli maas' or a monster cousin of 'kaawoi maas'. Nothing like 'row maas'. c-da At 7:53 PM -0600 5/29/07, Ram

[Assam] Masor tenga Anja

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
This past weekend, I had this "immediate must" to have masor tenga anja (we were at the grocery store). She told me OK, go get the fish. The choice was between Tilapia or Catfish. So, I got a couple of pounds of Tilapia (on previous occassions, I always thought the catfish was always a better opt

Re: [Assam] Anti-ULFA slogans rattle Pengere

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hi Nayan: At 11:19 PM +0530 5/29/07, Nayanjyoti Medhi wrote: C Da, Don't beat around the bush. Just say in a plain 'YES' or 'NO' whether you are coming or not *** I have already been in Assam twice this year. Thanks much for your generosity in offering guide services, but I really don't

Re: [Assam] Fwd: letters to the Editor

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
At 2:05 AM -0700 5/26/07, Rajib Das wrote: C-da, What has a desi (or secular / Indian secular) got to do with it? *** It has everything to do with the point Rajib. Remember how certain desis-tried to tell the world that the meaning of secularism in India is different from that of the west?T

[Assam] Fwd: Assam on world broadcast tomorrow

2007-05-29 Thread J Kalita
--- Sanchayita Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Sanchayita Sharma" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Bubli'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Assam on world broadcast tomorrow > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:23:43 +0100 > > Hi, > > First of all, thank you to all who have shown > interest and ha

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Nayanjyoti Medhi
C Da, Give me an instance when you have not failed to see the logic. In fact, maybe that is the only thing you did not carry it with you when you went to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Or maybe the American customs confiscated it? On 5/29/07, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Somehow Ram, I

Re: [Assam] Anti-ULFA slogans rattle Pengere

2007-05-29 Thread Nayanjyoti Medhi
C Da, Don't beat around the bush. Just say in a plain 'YES' or 'NO' whether you are coming or not. You have forgotten that here in India, the government is by the people, so, Why do you not talk with the people. I am inviting you. If you want I can get all the families of the victims send an invi

Re: [Assam] Clamour for a political solution to the ULFA demands from the trader community in Assam is a positive development. Every one should look at the ULFA stand as the core issue. NOT to treat i

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, Lets go over this a bit. With that in mind, they will even talk to the devil (if required) :) *** Perhaps these opportunists, therefore should be banished, failing As traders and businessmen, they are only eager to see things go smoothly. They will be willing to talk to anyone and ever

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Fine Mohan. Let me agree that IS the truth. If it is, then is it SANE to continue to support the status-quo, while letting the people over whose fate you spare no effort to shed a long-distance tear, continue to be savaged by ULFA? Is it logical? Do you REALLY care for the people being under UL

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Somehow Ram, I fail to see the logic. See my replies to Mohan. At 8:10 AM -0600 5/29/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >without the people's support, continue to wreak havoc? You don't mean the kind of support when one ulfa was lynched and the other captured by villagers who were upset

Re: [Assam] Clamour for a political solution to the ULFA demands from the trader community in Assam is a positive development. Every one should look at the ULFA stand as the core issue. NOT to treat i

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Ram: With that in mind, they will even talk to the devil (if required) :) *** Perhaps these opportunists, therefore should be banished, failing which, bombed out of existence, since they are working against the sacred interests of the Indian state? Or is there a fallacy here in your argume

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
*>without the people's support,* continue to wreak havoc? You don't mean the kind of support when one ulfa was lynched and the other captured by villagers who were upset over the ulfa's brave killing of an unarmed school teacher. To be fair, I think, at one time the ULFA did have some support in

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Mohan R. Palleti
C'da: If I am right. this arguement has already appeared on the net before. The Indian Armed forces may be strong, but they operate wearing a uniform. The ULFA mixes with the mass and becomes a face in the crowd. People are afraid to speak out. I know people who are routinely forced to feed ULFA fo

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
M: >ULFA never seemed to have a dialogue with the common people. It is making its own unilateral decisions and implementing it with the power of the gun. *** Let me agree, for the sake of arguments, that your observation is accurate. But HOW do you explain ULFA's ability to remain operatio

Re: [Assam] Clamour for a political solution to the ULFA demands from the trader community in Assam is a positive development. Every one should look at the ULFA stand as the core issue. NOT to treat i

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Welcome back C'da. Was starting to wonder where you were? But then with this beautiful weather, the 3-day-weekend and the fresh Ozark mountain air, I guess, you were relaxing :) Are these traders, who are directly AFFECTED by the escalating violence, out of >their little minds; What do you pr

Re: [Assam] Anti-ULFA slogans rattle Pengere

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hi Nayan: My apologies for the delay in replying to your incisive, steel-trap questions . Here I am , humbly submitting to your inquisition (albeit late for being out of town for the Memorial Day weekend) without a whimper about your disappearing act whenever I ask some questions in return

Re: [Assam] ULFA and Liberation

2007-05-29 Thread Mohan R. Palleti
NM: your email was ver well said! Since ULFA is supposed to be the voice of the average assamese. It is pertinent to ask before ULFA does or say something, whether it has the support of the very people it claims to be the champion of. ULFA never seemed to have a dialogue with the common people. It

Re: [Assam] Clamour for a political solution to the ULFA demands from the trader community in Assam is a positive development. Every one should look at the ULFA stand as the core issue. NOT to treat i

2007-05-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
I have one question to our highly trained and intelligent friends who have offered 'solutions' for the problem ( or 'mohamari' or 'hemorrohoids' or whatever other irritant or dread they would like to present it as): Are these traders, who are directly AFFECTED by the escalating violence, o

Re: [Assam] India's newspaper readership

2007-05-29 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Well, Sandip You & I know that it shouldn't be. *>Guess its because it takes little to setup a radio station and broadcast your own version of >news :-)* That is correct. Given the mentality of people these days, they will probably use that as "Radio Freedom" some thing like that to spew hatred

[Assam] Assam Varnas are Bamun & Khudir. Khudirs=Sudras of India; meaning slaves. Over 1000 years ago Budhhism lost out to Hinduism and Khudirs came into being in Assam. Is not returning to KhohozaJan

2007-05-29 Thread Bartta Bistar
*One lakh people convert to Buddhism * http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007052806851200.htm&date=2007/05/28/&prd=th&; Prachi Pinglay *"A step taken to protest against Government's apathy towards basic needs of tribal people" * -- ยท *A majo

[Assam] Clamour for a political solution to the ULFA demands from the trader community in Assam is a positive development. Every one should look at the ULFA stand as the core issue. NOT to treat it as

2007-05-29 Thread Bartta Bistar
*Assam traders call for immediate talks with ULFA* http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200705281967.htm Guwahati, May. 28 (PTI): The Coordination Committee of different trade associations in Assam today demanded the state government convene immediate "unconditional" talks with the banned ULF

Re: [Assam] India's newspaper readership

2007-05-29 Thread SANDIP DUTTA
Ram Da, Guess its because it takes little to setup a radio station and broadcast your own version of news :-) Rgds, Sandip - Original Message From: Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Assamnet Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:55:30 AM Subject: [Assam] India's newspaper readership T