Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread uttam borthakur
icise me and come up with a better analysis. Let us now talk positive. Barua - Original Message - From: "Dilip&Dil Deka" To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Mridul Bhuyan
d by Biplob Kishore Deb at 3:00 PM Labels: Cricket, Indian Premier League - Original Message From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world <assam@assamnet.org> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 10:15:25 AM Subject: Re: [A

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread umesh sharma
e interested in Assam from around the world Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 6:23:45 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums India's poverty is western media's obsession( whether good or bad is debatable ). In Aus, w

[Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
do? >We just can't. >We need to be realistic. > > > > > > > > > > > > >"In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree >and humble like a blade of grass." > > > > > >> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 1

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
e are not suggestions. These are the "tenets" that we accept or make for ourselves as adults to make ourselves guilt-free. “In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.” > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:29:34 -0500>

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
ed in Assam from around the world" Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life;Outside, the Servants' Slums We all agree that there is a vast gap between the rich and the poor in India. Slowly but surely, India'

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
>How much can one do? >We just can't. >We need to be realistic. > > > > > > > > > > > > >"In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree >and humble like a blade of grass." > > > > > >> Date: M

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
stic. “In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.” > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:42:02 -0500> To: assam@assamnet.org> From: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, In

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
f this "PRIVATE CAPITAL" is >>really private, and if so how. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>At 5:49 AM -0700 6/9/08, Dilip&Dil Deka wrote: >>>We all agree that there is a vast gap between the rich and the poor >>>

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Ram Sarangapani
of sponsorship rights, 40% will go to IPL, 54% > will be given to the eight franchises, and the remaining 6% will be spent > for prize money. > 99. Indian Cricket League (IPL) has gained the approval of ICC.100. Indian > Premier League (IPL) offers a whopping Rs 12 crore prize money. The

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Dilip&Dil Deka
om: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 10:15:25 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums Very well analyzed Uttam. The example is

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
e western world do and it is a trait Indian >>entrepreneurs lack. THEY NEED TO WAKE UP before Maoists move closer >>to them and cause terrorism in the cities. >>Dilip Deka >> >> >>- Original Message >>From: Jyotirmoy Sharma >>To: A Mailing lis

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread uttam borthakur
FINITELY. >Most entrepreneurs in the western world do and it is a trait Indian >entrepreneurs lack. THEY NEED TO WAKE UP before Maoists move closer >to them and cause terrorism in the cities. >Dilip Deka > > >- Original Message ---- >From: Jyotirmoy Sharma >To: A Maili

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Chan Mahanta
Deka > > >- Original Message >From: Jyotirmoy Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the >world >Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 6:23:45 AM >Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life;

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Dilip&Dil Deka
day, June 9, 2008 6:23:45 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums India's poverty is western media's obsession( whether good or bad is debatable ). In Aus, whenever there is anything shown on India, it will be mostly a

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-09 Thread Jyotirmoy Sharma
India's poverty is western media's obsession( whether good or bad is debatable ). In Aus, whenever there is anything shown on India, it will be mostly about slums, call centres, riots etc. There will never be any report on India's positives - be it the growing middle class, good progress in space t

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-08 Thread uttam borthakur
Chandan Da Such are the reasons why I could not agree whole-heartedly with Alpana Baideo (Alpana Sarangapani) when she opined that what is Rs.10 lakh or Rs.14 lakh for a minister when middle-class of India speak in terms of crores. Some of things that sounded theoretical at one time have b

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-08 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da thanks for the article, its a good article (though not an eye opener) and Umesh, you raise some good points. One is left wondering which is worse, a country that can possibily afford to eradicate poverty within its boundaries, or a country that flaunts its riches that it can ill afford to. :)

Re: [Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-08 Thread umesh sharma
In Washington DC and New York the contrast may not be so obvious but Harlem is a US slum near the riches of Manhattan. People do beg in downtown DC. DC is the crime capital of the US. Does that make Bill Gates or Bill Clinton apologetic or for that matter Thomas Friedman or Al Gore

[Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-08 Thread cmahanta
This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Good Life of Gurgaon INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | June 9, 2008 Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums By SOMINI SENGUPTA Gated communities have emerged in India, giving its growing upper-middle-class giving Western amen