Just now Wahidda (Wahid Saleh) received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.
He is one among 12 chosen from different fields. Wahidda reveived the
award from the Hon'ble President of India.
Wahidda made the acceptance speech on behalf of the awardees, which
was another recognition. I was privileged to
That is fantastic news about Wahid da, Manoj. Congratulations, Wahid da...
you make us proud.
Ram da
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Manoj Das dasm...@gmail.com wrote:
Just now Wahidda (Wahid Saleh) received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.
He is one among 12 chosen from different fields.
See how large hearted he is!
He allows his henchman to take 4000Crores and he keeps only 18 crores as
small tips.
But will the Assamese nation now get a mechanism to tell High Commandante
We do not owe you 30,000 Crores -. You owe us 500Billion Dolars.
And too:
You can take the
Baidow,
Welcome back ! Will look fwd to more travel diary from your end shared here.
Chandanda, I suppose really liked his transit through the new facility as
well :-)
take care
RD
From: absarangap...@hotmail.com
To: assam@assamnet.org
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:46:48 -0600
Subject:
I did a little quick math and the total value of these houses , approx. 18
crore rupees, is really a puny
amount by local standards, as far as housing value goes, $ 500,000 or so. A 3
BR. condominium
like the one at Mountain View CA, itself would be almost 1.5 to 2 times the
combined value of
No issues with anything you said except I did a little quick math and the
total
value of these houses , approx. 18 crore rupees, is really a puny
amount by local standards, as far as housing value goes, $ 500,000 or so.
Eta xunyo iphal xiphal hwl. 18 crore rupees translates to about
Exactly my sentiments, C'da. When I saw the news item, and later this
forwarded here, I felt that at the very least there was a huge
misunderstanding of $ cents, and how acquiring easy home loans is in this
country. The amounts are small as you put it.
What was surprising (according to the news)
Cannot speak for the other addresses in the article but Albany Street,
Cambridge, MA is mostly MIT property (I live in Cambridge); looks to me like
a cut and paste job from some associated (with his son-in-law or daughter?)
mention of the address as a place of residence for graduate studies?
On
Oooops! You are right. Just realized that my calculator does not go beyond 8
numerals, thus the inability to
do simple arithmetic :-).
But from the corrected numbers, it is unlikely that the listed houses would add
to $ 5,000,000. If we
take the MOountainview, CA condo at $1,000,000, the one
mention of the address as a place of residence for graduate studies.
*** Very likely!
Also, the various incomes shown for the daughter and son-in-law could be
explained by
income at the time for applying fo a loan. Over a number of years they would
change.
On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:25 PM,
143 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA, the address listed in the article is
actually the Edgerton House at MIT, a student residence.
http://eh.mit.edu/about/eha/
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:25 PM, amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote:
Cannot speak for the other addresses in the article but Albany
What was surprising (according to the news) is that some NRI's gave Akhil
Gogoi the low-down on this.
*** We all know that not all NRIs are equal :-). We also know of our folks'
pervasive colonial-serfdom-inspired awe of NRIs is quite unfounded.
And this is how huge mountains are made out
Friends,
I would like to share annual report of an International Educator site study
guides and strategies http://www.studygs.net/with you. You migh know that
PRAGYAN works in colaboration with this site. We are translating contents
here in ASSAMESE AND BENGALI. The Moderator of this site Joe
For India:
Even a flat (with 3+ bedrooms) could cost crores of rupees in the metropolitan
cities in India. Even ordinary people like us talk in lakhs, if not in crores.
For the US:
For 2 professionals having 2 houses (especially in the NE part where real
estate carries an inflated rate) of
“We want dialogue without any pre-condition.-Arabinda
ULFA's change of heart.
Militancy can’t solve problems: Arabinda
CORRESPONDENT
SONARI,
Jan 9 – ULFA is now not in favour of solving problems of Assam through
militancy. “Militancy was not able to solve any problem in last 30
years. We
My gut feel is that nobody is so careless, particularly those on the take.
Not quite In fact, it could well be the other way. In India, corruption
has reached heady heights, and siphoning off 'thousands of crores of Rs',
is pretty common in the land of mega scams (and mega dams)... its done
Thanks C'da.
And thanks also for your constructive critique about the airport. I didn't get
to try the food court or get to go to the parking garage, the taxi driver
hurriedly left us at the airport (btw, we talked a lot about things with all of
them, ate at regular dhaba's with the driver
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