[Assam] Articles on the Flood of Assam

2007-09-25 Thread Buljit Buragohain
Articles on the Flood of Assam: From Asomiya Pratidin: http://dhemaji.bihu.in/1736 From Dainik Agradoot : http://dhemaji.bihu.in/1738 - Why delete messages? Unlimited storage is just a click away.__

Re: [Assam] Book review : India After Gandhi- Sikh Holocaust

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
Rajen-da, The dictatorship is too much of a term - it depends where you are in India - those in metros definitely are having full democracy and as you go into interiors where law and literacy are remote it becomes dictatorhip by the elected. See the video of Indira's India of 1984 - Sikh Holoc

Re: [Assam] Book review : India After Gandhi- Bengal democracy

2007-09-25 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
Umesh: India is best described as 'an elected dictatorship'. Rajenda - Original Message - From: umesh sharma To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Book review : India After Gandhi-

Re: [Assam] Book review : India After Gandhi- Bengal democracy

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
Rajen-da Good example of India-Shining rhetoric. But just becos there is peace (despite armed militancy in 25% of India's districts- NE, Kashmir, Bihar, Central India, LTTE South India etc etc) and not many are dying of starvation and voting not by reading election manifestos but by recognizin

Re: [Assam] India benefits: MIT OpenCourseware

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
"I wanted to learn more about the field of Biology but the hurdle is there is no good library in Nepal and as well as there is dearth of University which teaches this subject in Nepal. With MIT OpenCourseWare I am able to learn about mathematics and computational biology." – Eric, Nepal Nepal in

[Assam] The Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University

2007-09-25 Thread Buljit Buragohain
The web site of the Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University : http://www.kkhsou.org - Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how.___ assam mailing list assam@ass

Re: [Assam] This you must watch - Elvis in Bollywood

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
C-da, Great remined me of Elvis the Pelvis whose pelvic thrists were considered vulgar and crude by genteel folks of the time but appreciated by the fans. ***Jack Gold warned in the New York Times, "When Presley executes his bumps and grinds, it must be remembered ... that even the twelve-year-

[Assam] Oil Industry Institute in Rae Bareilly, UP?

2007-09-25 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
I don't know how many of you saw this article in the "Hydroprocessing" magazine or whether you subscribe to the magazine. Rae Bareilly? - What does it have to do with oil industry? Those in this net who lick Nehru/Gandhi boots - time for you to think. Why didn't Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan o

[Assam] Fw: [Kukiforum] Myanmar generals face biggest protest in 20 yrs

2007-09-25 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
Date: Sep 25, 2007 2:44 AM Subject: [Kukiforum] Myanmar generals face biggest protest in 20 yrs The Morung Express: September 25, 2007 Myanmar generals face biggest protest in 20 yrs Buddhist monks march on a street in protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday,

Re: [Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

2007-09-25 Thread BBaruah
Chandan It is a very relevant question. I will certainly deal with it when I have a little more time. Very briefly, unlike politicians in the West, Indian politicians in office, MPs and MLA's, want to secure their comfortable livelihood when the opportunity is there, at least they must hav

Re: [Assam] This you must watch

2007-09-25 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, That was fantastic - thanks for fwding it. I wonder though if its computer graphics or someone acting - think its the former. Ram On 9/25/07, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFCUAjH0G8 > >

Re: [Assam] This you must watch

2007-09-25 Thread BBaruah
In a message dated 25/09/2007 17:35:44 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFCUAjH0G8 Must say it is original. Caricature in essence, that is how I am impressed. bhuban ___ assam mailing list as

[Assam] This you must watch

2007-09-25 Thread Chan Mahanta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFCUAjH0G8___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org

Re: [Assam] Anjana lone member from NE

2007-09-25 Thread Chan Mahanta
I join you R. c At 10:28 AM -0600 9/25/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote: This from today's AT. Sometime ago, I had written about Ashadeep, and about Mukul & Anjana Goswami. Ashadeep, is a rehab for women. Alpana & I have had the opportunity to visit Ashadeep at their Guwahati location a nu

[Assam] Anjana lone member from NE

2007-09-25 Thread Ram Sarangapani
This from today's AT. Sometime ago, I had written about Ashadeep, and about Mukul & Anjana Goswami. Ashadeep, is a rehab for women. Alpana & I have had the opportunity to visit Ashadeep at their Guwahati location a number of times. I really don't have enough words to describe the great work that t

[Assam] Singer Debojit Saha meets Mamoni Raisom Goswami in hospital

2007-09-25 Thread Pradip Kumar Datta
Singer Debojit Saha meets Mamoni Raisom Goswami in hospital Stress busts peacemaker - I was disturbed: Mamoni DAULAT RAHMAN TELEGRAPH INDIA Singer Debojit Saha meets Mamoni Raisom Goswami in hospital on Friday. Picture by Eastern Projections Guwahati, Sept. 1

Re: [Assam] US institute launches awareness programme - AT

2007-09-25 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Thanks C'd. I am now glad that the school is active in Assam. Was a tad worried, because I had never heard of it before. --Ram On 9/25/07, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Webster University is head-quartered in the lovely St. Louis suburb of > Webster Groves. It is a good private, f

Re: [Assam] US institute launches awareness programme - AT

2007-09-25 Thread Ganesh C Bora
Webster University started with professional development courses with its first campus in a beach town named Hua-Hin about 2 hrs south of Bangkok. In fact I met some of the faculties (mostly Europeans) when I was working in AIT, Bangkok. They later on started Under-grad and graduate courses main

Re: [Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

2007-09-25 Thread Chan Mahanta
Dear BK: The colonial legal framework certainly provides due process of law.. *** From your own experiences as a part of the system and your educated observations since then, can you shed some light on WHY the "--guilty cannot be punished?" Not just in this instance, but in every other ca

Re: [Assam] US institute launches awareness programme - AT

2007-09-25 Thread Chan Mahanta
Webster University is head-quartered in the lovely St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves. It is a good private, for-profit, university. Not inexpensive by any means. For some courses it is even more expensive than the highly regarded Washington University at St. Louis. A number of students from

[Assam] “WE WILL REMOVE THIS SITE IF PROVEN WR ONG”: Series of logical articles from THE sit e posted here to prepare for the challenge, as some people in Assam even using loud speakers to spread th

2007-09-25 Thread Bartta Bistar
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/masjidalaqsa.htm -- Muslims are absolutely certain that Allah revealed Quran through his angle Gabriel to Muhammad and nothing of that is changed. Let us put this claim to the test. There is a hadith that reports Muhammad one n

Re: [Assam] US institute launches awareness programme - AT

2007-09-25 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Thanks Priyankoo. Profit-motivated itself is not bad, so long as the students achieve life-time benefits. It does look like Brent's inputs must have had some influence in their decision to visit Guwahati. --Ramda On 9/25/07, Priyankoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ramda, > > My friend Brent B

Re: [Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
it seems Tehelka has finally become free for everyone not just subscribers. Umesh Priyankoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my Naga friends sent me this. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main33.asp?filename=op010907Dark.asp Dex matho eta dharona, thikonar xex xari... --

[Assam] India benefits: MIT OpenCourseware

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/impact/asia/asia.htm anyone in Assam? Umesh Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu

Re: [Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

2007-09-25 Thread BBaruah
He authors of this well researched article find the roots of these inter-state boundary disputes in the North-east in the colonial legal framework which helped the plantations, coalmines and oilfields in the Brahmaputra valley and along the foothills of Nagaland (presently coupled with d

Re: [Assam] NE youth India's Idols??

2007-09-25 Thread umesh sharma
Priyankoo-da, Yes you are right the runner up is from Shillong but the artcile says that the winner is also from NE India - Darjeeling-right next to Assam. Regards. Uesh Priyankoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems like you lost something in translation!! umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Assam] US institute launches awareness programme - AT

2007-09-25 Thread Priyankoo
Ramda, My friend Brent Bianchi served as a faculty at the Thailand campus of the University. I have no idea whether they are profit-motivated or not. However, I do know that in September 2006, when Brent and I were in Thailand after our visits to Assam, Brent tried to persuade the Webster Universi

[Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

2007-09-25 Thread Priyankoo
One of my Naga friends sent me this. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main33.asp?filename=op010907Dark.asp Dex matho eta dharona, thikonar xex xari... Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Wat