[Assam] Panchatantra: Gain/Loss of Friends ??

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
Some might recall the ageless stories of Pancha-Tantra (panch = five, Tantra = systems/games/ways) http://www.panchatantra.org/the-loss-of-friends.html Loss of Friends: to be most careful is when you are powerful but gullible and make friends with another who is powerful but relies on external

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam 2007: Pt2; engg colleges, NRAs & C

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
Ram-da,, You are welcome. Happy Independence Day (of US). Umesh Sharma (US) Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you, Umesh for providing an exhaustive account of Assam 2007. --Ram da On 7/3/07, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In the Day 2 of the meeting (

[Assam] Railways not to delay Bogibeel bridge: Velu (The Assam Tribune, 04.07.2007)

2007-07-03 Thread Buljit Buragohain
Railways not to delay Bogibeel bridge: Velu >From Ron Duarah DIBRUGARH, July 3 – Union Minister of State for Railways Ramasamy Velu today told The Assam Tribune that the Rs 2200 crore Bogibeel bridge project would not be allowed to be delayed. “Our Government has announced Bogibe

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam 2007: Pt2; engg colleges, NRAs & C

2007-07-03 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Thank you, Umesh for providing an exhaustive account of Assam 2007. --Ram da On 7/3/07, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In the Day 2 of the meeting (on Sunday July 1st, 2007) we arrived just in time to have the lunch (got value for money - the $110 we had paid each for the Assa

Re: [Assam] Google's free sms sender

2007-07-03 Thread bg
try this: http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php On 7/4/07, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Babul-da, It doesn't seem to work - the weblink. Umesh *bg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: http://www.google.com/sendtophone -- Babul Gogoi www.icthelpline.org _

Re: [Assam] Google's free sms sender

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
Babul-da, It doesn't seem to work - the weblink. Umesh bg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.google.com/sendtophone -- Babul Gogoi www.icthelpline.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamne

[Assam] Rediff: H-1B US work visa business/fraud vs Visa late -job loss

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/04visa.htm On the other hand, those in India - first have to wait for months to get the visa petition approved and then spend another 4-5 months to get the visa interview at US consulate in India and only then are able to come to work in US -- and there is n

[Assam] Google's free sms sender

2007-07-03 Thread bg
http://www.google.com/sendtophone -- Babul Gogoi www.icthelpline.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

[Assam] Day2: Assam 2007: Pt2; engg colleges, NRAs & CM

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
Hi, In the Day 2 of the meeting (on Sunday July 1st, 2007) we arrived just in time to have the lunch (got value for money - the $110 we had paid each for the Assam 2007) - I was able to identify the dish with the shrimp (and avoided a painful alergy outbreak ) . At the same time meeting of

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam2007: Pt 1-- Zubeen mania; heroine

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
There was talk that one new one is to be set up at one place -- but Jugal-da said that their team found Assam needs 110 engineering colleges and atleast 16 in the coming year should be set up. The CM wanted the private bodies to take initiative - since they have to provide value for money to sur

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam2007: Pt 1-- Zubeen mania; heroine

2007-07-03 Thread kamal deka
First thing first.I couldn't attend the ' oxomiya xonmilon' on account of personal reason. I am very much interested to find out as to what Mr.Tarun Gogoi had to say in regard to NRAs investment in Assam.Hopefully,his visit was fruitful and wouldn't turn out to be a photo-ops event only. Mridu's

[Assam] movies: Jatinga vs The Might Heart - Daniel Pearl

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
PS: I just watched "The Might Heart" by Angelina Jolie based of Slain Journo Daniel Pearl -- by Omar Sheikh Masood - a London School of Economics grad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh http://www.mercurynews.com/movies/ci_6274810 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl I

[Assam] Day2: Assam 2007: Pt2; engg colleges, self-help, Global warming : NRAs & CM

2007-07-03 Thread umesh sharma
Hi, In the Day 2 of the meeting (on Sunday July 1st, 2007) we arrived just in time to have the lunch (got value for money - the $110 we had paid each for the Assam 2007) - I was able to identify the dish with the shrimp (and avoided a painful alergy outbreak ) . At the same time meeting of Ass

Re: [Assam] ANT & GRASS HOPPER

2007-07-03 Thread Chan Mahanta
What happened? You did not want to get to the answers you were seeking? I did not say anything about the world being black and white. But when YOU , who agreed with the creator of DATGH , subscribed to that black and white world concept, as you read it, of the world divided into the two c

[Assam] Six Days at a Scottish monastry

2007-07-03 Thread Ram Sarangapani
For those interested in this kind of reading, this seems to be a gem of a book (IMHO). This review is from Slate Magazine. The book promises to be good and the author Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor has a number of other books too. What I found interesting is that there seems to be something for everyon

[Assam] FoodNavigator.com

2007-07-03 Thread Via FoodNavigator.com
This page is sent to you by Mukul Mahant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with the message: Watch out you Chicken-lovers. Remember to eat lots of full-cream Doiihomemade from full-fat dairy milk.Doii has the all-powerful friendly bacteria "Lactobaccilus Bulgaricus"-keeps your system invincible for all the th

[Assam] "Ganga Yamunaa--Nirmala Panee-"---Sing along all of you

2007-07-03 Thread mc mahant
With close to 70 seminars and nine workshops scheduled, this year's World Water Week (www.worldwaterweek.org) aims to top expectations once again. A record number of participants – 2400 from some 130 countries – are expected to explore a wide variety of exciting themes and topics

Re: [Assam] Dr R K Pachuari -- TERI

2007-07-03 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
As a matter of fact, if RKP's reasoning is all bad, the US education system must also be Dysfunctional. He got his Masters and PhD from US Or is it the same old Ant and Grasshopper story :) --- Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi KC, > > It does look like RK Pachauri has a few n

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread mc mahant
You decide on that! mm Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:29:02 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam] Refinery pollutionCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; assam@assamnet.org Mukul da, >But he is typical of Indian Non-Expertize. Don't know anything about RK Pachauri. But what is a typical

Re: [Assam] Dr R K Pachuari -- TERI

2007-07-03 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Hi KC, It does look like RK Pachauri has a few notches under his belt & thats quite a good resume. So, what makes him a non-expert? While it is possible that inspite of all these accolades, that his reasoning may still be at fault, but I think there are other reasons. And those reasons are (at

[Assam] Dr R K Pachuari -- TERI

2007-07-03 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
Ram-da Here is a brief biography of RK Pachuari http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/bios/pachauri.htm and TERI means Tata Energy Research Institute. A few International achivements of Dr Pachuari are -- Chairman of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), established by Worl

Re: [Assam] ANT & GRASS HOPPER

2007-07-03 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
C'da Thanks for enlightening me. Now I know that -- The world is black and white --- losers and winners BBC,CNN, AR, GOI etc all should be branded into one of these there cannot be any one who can be termed as exploiters etc. There cannot be others in the world who are corrupt, crim

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Mukul da, ** *>But he is typical of Indian Non-Expertize.* Don't know anything about RK Pachauri. But what is a typical "Indian Non-Expertize"? Does that include us NRAs/NRIs - after all, most of us did come from a Gauhati/Dibrugarh Medical College, IIT, IIM, Cotton/GU, or schools named after sa

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread mc mahant
The man with a wise-looking Beard- R.K.Pachauri. Also became (or is)UN's Green-house gas task-force Chief(India got a chance to put its man ). But he is typical of Indian Non-Expertize. We have no such PULL to demand result. Let us give them a long rope-will tear anyway! mm Date: Tue, 3 Jul

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
" We were told that Delhi's Consultant TERI did not think our system will work--and they have their own." - It is hard for me to understand how you could give up so easily, knowing you. If you have repeatable performace results of your invention and they are better than the competitors', you wi

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam2007: Pt 1-- Zubeen mania; heroine

2007-07-03 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Right, right! What did the CM say? Did he say anything about opening one in Dhemaji? “In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass” - Lakshmana From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [Assam] [WaterWatch] Flood like situation in Guj, Army on alert

2007-07-03 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Hi C'da: >Well, Alpana, I won't attempt to characterize your question . Thank you (I haven't read the othe lines yet). >What you missed here altogether is the IRONY of the concept of EXCESS WATER >>redistribution. But it is not a hard one to master. All you need to do is >pay attention

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread mc mahant
I am sure the damage is far more then extinction of local species.You are Right. There is no more fish/turtle/porpoise(Xihoo) left in the main stream of the Brahmaputra all the way to sea due to following : · One drop of Oily waste spreads to an invisible film spreading 1km.sq.b

Re: [Assam] Refinery pollution

2007-07-03 Thread Roy, Santanu
I am sure the damage is far more then extinction of local species. One has to seriously look at the nature of effluents, the stock emitted over the last few decades and their long term impact. The state ought to institute an official scientific study immediately, calculate damages, impose a hea

Re: [Assam] [WaterWatch] Flood like situation in Guj, Army on alert

2007-07-03 Thread Chan Mahanta
Well, Alpana, I won't attempt to characterize your question . However , the reason I asked the question has to be viewed in the CONTEXT of the PREMISE of riverlinking, one the president so ardently advocates and which is supposedly based on relieving the 'flood-prone ' areas of their 'excess'

Re: [Assam] ANT & GRASS HOPPER

2007-07-03 Thread Chan Mahanta
>The main idea of the story, as anybody with common sense will understand, is that people who are incapable of making it to higher ups, cribs and point fingers at those who have made it to higher ups .and I do agree to this. *** Okkkay! Let us begin here. Don't worry. I will give you yo

Re: [Assam] Day2: Assam2007: Pt 1-- Zubeen mania; heroine

2007-07-03 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
Umesh-ji: I saw in the latest issue of POSOOWA a nice write up on the need for additional engineering colleges in Assam. I am interested to know if any of such things were discussed with the CM in Assam-2007 or not. What he has to say? Rajen Baraua - Original Message - From: Alpana B

[Assam] Assam integral part of India: Sahitya Sabha

2007-07-03 Thread Pradip Kumar Datta
Assam integral part of India: Sahitya Sabha By A City Correspondent GUWAHATI, July 2 – After a brainstorming two-day session, Asom Maha Sanmilan organised by the apex literary body of the State, the Asam Sahitya Sabha, declared that Assam was part and parcel of India and called upon the insurgen

[Assam] The Literary Guild of Assam(ASS) presides over the bell ringers chorus of readying the political funeral pyre of the Assamese Nation. What a shame! The noble organisation born (with a differen

2007-07-03 Thread Bartta Bistar
-- Assam integral part of India: Sahitya Sabha By A City Correspondent GUWAHATI, July 2 – After a brainstorming two-day session, Asom Maha Sanmilan organised by the apex literary body of the State, the Asam Sahitya Sabha, declared that Assam was part and parcel of Ind

[Assam] Taj Mahal

2007-07-03 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=351&L=0 Only 3 more days left for Taj-Mahal to get a chance to be one of the new 7 Wonders of the World. Please use the above site and register and vote. “In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blad