http://www.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=hub290907THE_INNARDS.asp
The Innards Of The System
Public healthcare in India is a scary undertaking. The good news is,
people come through it alive. Here's writer and surgeon AMBARISH
SATWICK's deadpan take from the trenches
The
Rajen:
The disappointments are results of expectations.
To expect India to give a damn about Assam is unrealistic.
That is why, those of us who are realists and are able to read the
handwriting on the walls all over the place, do not hold out such
expectations. We know Assam will never be an
are the only intelligent ones
on earth is nothing but perversion.
Dr.M.C.George,Advocate,INFAM(IndianFarmersMovement)
--- Chan Mahanta mailto:cmahanta%40charter.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was an article in the Indian Express under
the heading Ram, science and religious belief,
by P.V. Indiresan
benefits or lack thereof of eating
meat.
Regards.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [Assam] IIT Chief: Ram, science and religious belief
Dr. Indiresan spent a lot of time pretending to
be singing the praises of scientific pursuits of
the truth and rational thinking. But really he
K:
C'da don't you think that Hindu Rationalist or
Muslim Rationalist is a Oxymoron. I would assume a
Rationalist will be an aethist. So every faith will
be somebody else's faith for him.
*** They would be, if someone attempted to create such an animal.
However, since Hindus do not
Hmmm. Did I say ALL Hindus and Mulsims are
Fundamentalist ... that damn English language !!
C'da don't you think that Hindu Rationalist or Muslim
Rationalist is a Oxymoron. I would assume a Rationalist will be
an aethist. So every faith
will be somebody else's faith for him.
Dr. Indiresan spent a lot of time pretending to
be singing the praises of scientific pursuits of
the truth and rational thinking. But really he
bares in this article, filled with inane
arguments , his own inability to reconcile
rational thinking expected of a man of his
stature as a
It will be interesting to learn about these INDIAN VALUES, if someone
has what it takes to enumerate them .
cm
At 9:47 PM -0700 9/17/07, Pradip Kumar Datta wrote:
i agree with you that only generations (age 30-40) are coming back
and also i meet so many people in delhi who
I am not sure if the following is fact or yet another internet myth.
But thought it might be helpful to know. If someone is familiar with
its veracity, would appreciate hearing.
cm
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I am not sure if the following is fact or yet another internet myth.
But thought it might be helpful to know. If someone is familiar
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/opinion/05ferris.html
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
The Mix Tape of the Gods
By TIMOTHY FERRIS
Published: September 5, 2007
THIRTY years ago today, the Voyager 1 space probe - a one-ton robotic
craft whose long antennas make it look rather like a spider the size
of
To quote Ram Sarangapani, looks like this piece was by someone
behaving like a shock jockey and is trying desperately to
elicit some response.
What it really says is that the author is clueless about what needs
to be done just like those, who were emotionally aroused by trash
like
Hi Netters:
Link to two of Tridib's newest creations below.
Enjoy.
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Subject: Thanks for all. Find two new Works.
To:
Please do not be too optimistic .
*** Hate as I do to admit it, it is unfortunately the truth.
Assam has no dearth of able, imaginative people who are eminently
capable of finding creative solutions to its unique problems. But
the weak links , or more precisely the non-existent links are:
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We can only vent our feelings in forums like this but can not do
anything to change the situation.
*** Absolutely NOT TRUE!
I know it is easy for me to say. But each one of us can and ought be
doing something about it. Question is HOW?
Let us be analytical. Keep asking the questions until
I am most impressed by people who have the ability to see the light,
even if it smacks of bhutor mukhot raam-naam :-)
At 6:03 AM -0700 8/29/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
One more addition to the ORs ---
Characteristics of the Creative Person
optimistic
dedicated to those who
Dear Netters:
Here are some more of Tridib Dutta's images of Assam in his Nostalgia
Series. If anyone is interested in purchasing, please write to him
directly at[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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Here are the Links of the works for your kind perusal. .
1.
Barking up the wrong tree again.
Of course India needs another unenforceable and
meaningless law like it needs a another hole thru
its head.
What the writer should have attempted to draw
attention to was to make the ritual of desi
elections meaningful: Issue based and informed.
At
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are dysfunctional,
he is the one who lacks IMAGINATION and is creatively challenged.
Bujhle' ekhon?
At 7:46 AM -0700 8/29/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
Me too .. looks people are thinking positive
rather then blame it on GOI game
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED
, NOT all Imaginers
are Creative .
BTW, I thought Creative people have better things to
do then digging up never ending discussions
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ki muskil!
Ei Ingrezi bhasha ta na puro 'bogus' . Ki bolse wra
bujhai jai-na.
That is why I keep saying
What do YOU think? And why do you think what you do?
At 12:08 PM -0700 8/29/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
C'da
One quick question ---
For RSS, you mentioned -- Even the US lists it as a
terrorist outfit.
Do you consider this as a strong ground to decry an
Organisation ?
I do know better.
But why do I have to answer all the questions?
And if you don't agree say so and explain why. Are you afraid to?
At 1:05 PM -0700 8/29/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
The comment was by you so you should be knowing better
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
afraid to?
Don't agree to what? It was a question, Not an
argument
Do you consider this (listing by US) as a strong
ground to
decry an
Organisation ?
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do know better.
But why do I have to answer all the questions?
And if you don't
a Iraq in Assam.
The curious person's questioning attitude toward
life is a
positive one, not a destructive
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exaclty and I can see you are now thinking of
BETTER solutions
within Indian Framework rather then thinking of
what GOI did
Hi A:
Good to hear from you.
I have always done my own framing. A painting like Tridib's, I can
frame for less than $ 50.00. I will give you the scoop on HOW to do
that later. You buy the frame, glass and the matting, mail ,order.
Then you assemble it at home., If not you, Ram can do it ion
.
Let us see, whether the suggestions in the book come handy to the
Rulers or not.
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Baruah:
Read the book on one sitting. It was an almost unprecedented
accomplishment for me, since I left college. I found it extremely
informative, as always. I
Dear Thakuria:
You don't have to call me 'Sir'. We are very informal here. A simple
Mahanta is adequate.
Thanks for sharing the publication,which I see is the same as was
published elsewhere. If I remember correctly, I did post a response
to that earlier.
Anyway, this is interesting in
% are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian-AmericanAsian-American
(under-represented compared to 4% of general
population).
Umesh
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flexcube which is a Banking Software and considered No 1 Banking
Software in the World ...
*** I am most impressed. It was my
Pesticide menace cripples Punjab village
26 Aug 2007, 0136 hrs IST,Priya Yadav,TNN
GIANA (TALAWANDI SABO): Young children with tufts
of gray hair, water that burns the insides as it
goes down the throat, entire villages suffering
from a variety of cancerous ailments. That's what
unfettered
that prevented me from learning; by
observing, reading, asking a lot of dumb
questions--whatever it took.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [Assam] Banking on Banking Software
Hi Umesh:
Have you come across the term IRONY ?
Can't you see the irony in Krishnendu's offering
of Flex-Cube
, but mercifully I
have no national identity baggage unlike you
guys that prevented me from learning; by
observing, reading, asking a lot of dumb
questions--whatever it took.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [Assam] Banking on Banking Software
Hi Umesh:
Have you come across the term
because YOU say that there
is a Gold Mine inside it. You need to Prove the real
benefit of a independent Assam before asking people to
support you which you could not.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Umesh:
Have you come across the term IRONY ?
Can't you see the irony
Dear Baruah:
Read the book on one sitting. It was an almost unprecedented
accomplishment for me, since I left college. I found it extremely
informative, as always. I was particularly impressed by your
realistic analysis of the unsustainable two-tiered citizenship, of
the ethnic homeland
C:
Like most of the Assamese -yes I will keep poiting to the influx
problem knowing fully well we are helpless (both within and outside
India) to do anything about it.
*** There was a reason for my asking the question : To see if there
was a point to it all. For example to be able to
Imagination has many meanings, depending on the context. And it does
not mean DAY DREAMING.
All great things ever done by man have always been sparked by the
imagination of a single human being.
Assam's despondency is rooted in an appalling lack of imaginative
ideas and creative drives,
or the other :)
As I said, never mind and sorry for making you
uncomfortable with these questions.
There have been earlier instances too ... like your
failure to explain HOW a uncreative product of Indian
Education system clears the exams of Creative land ---
SAT, GMAT, GRE etc
--- Chan Mahanta
Creative :)
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There have been earlier instances too ... like
your
failure to explain HOW a uncreative product of
Indian
Education system clears the exams of Creative land
---
SAT, GMAT, GRE etc
*** I knew it! Had to be this damned English
language
and
key International players make a beeline to invest in
India.
Just check the top Mutual Funds of US and most of
those invests heavily in India because , unlike you,
they believe in Indian Growth story.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought SAT, GRE, GMAT, USMLE all are US
.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought SAT, GRE, GMAT, USMLE all are US
tests
... so your education system also depends on tests.
*** Yes, they do depend on them , to a degree. You
don't get to go
to to topmost schools on the basis of SAT or GRE
scores alone
Loved that one. But since the Assamese were left out, allow me to fill in:
One Assamese is a Kharkhowa ( Khar is an alkaline fluid, created by
draining water thru ash from burnt , dried banana plant roots. It is
the primary fluid in a soupy dish, favorite with the Assamese.
Historically the
Hi Chitta:
IMHO this problem can not be solved by
government of India or by those whom you want to
see in power. Influx will continue till
potential difference, osmotic pressure on both
sides become equal. All the attempts to solve
the problem will just may be increase the
resistance, but
You mean hooked to day dreaming? May be in a couple of years time.
*** That is hardly a smart-alec answer as it was meant to be. In
reality it is an abject surrender to the status-quo. Cry about
things to no end, but unable and unwilling to exercise one's
imagination to find a better way.
Why don't you first state the problem or the issue you are trying to
resolve? Once that is clear in your mind, you won't have to ask ME
the questions. It will be self evident.
If you still don't get it, I will surely help.
At 1:43 PM -0700 8/24/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
to be.
Two Assamese makes an ULFA battalion. Three Assamese is
a Bangladeshi ousting vigilante group and four Assamese is
an union of wanna-be-Indians :-).
Two, make an ULFA battalion, ...and by inference, 4 are wanna-bees,
and 5 must be patriotic Indians :))
--Ram
On 8/24/07, Chan Mahanta
- but
do you learn?
*** Did I miss something? My apologies. Can you or the others point
out one or two? For ol' times' sakes. Puleez!
Rgds,
SD
- Original Message
From: Krishnendu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SANDIP DUTTA
[EMAIL PROTECTED
hidden intentions.
s-d
Rgds,
Sandip
- Original Message
From: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: SANDIP DUTTA [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Krishnendu
Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chan Mahanta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ram Sarangapani
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Cc: assam@assamnet.org
jumping in
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 9:27 PM -0700 8/20/07, SANDIP DUTTA wrote:
Dear Sondon Da,
I am not in the business of mind reading. So I
asked.
*** How about ordinary English?
It does NOT take mind-reading, but an ability to
draw inferences from
Now what
cm
Delhi HC acquits Soren in Jha murder case
22 Aug 2007, 1519 hrs IST,PTI
Delhi HC acquitted Shibu Soren in the murder case of his private
secretary Shashinath Jha. ( AP Photo)
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday acquitted former Union
Minister Shibu Soren in
and avoid answering relevant questions.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have always maintained I will explain. But I want
to see where the
questioners are coming from.
If they get it, it is a feather on their caps. If
not we will explain.
A good example was your
the credibility of the offender,
wouldn't it?
Anyone can say anything. Claim whatever he wants to. But if he has
no credibility, what good does that do? Isn't that what it is all
about?
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is definitely a good example but in other
sense
In spite of the ill-wishers of India, looks like it has finally
arrived at the promised land.
So, when is the party to celebrate?
At 7:01 AM +0530 8/23/07, mc mahant wrote:
India shining??--
Doubts?
mm
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:31:53 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Sorry it took so long to get back to you Chitta.
The flag-waving fire-works kept me at bay, as you
must have noticed. Hope it was an enjoyable
display :-).
It is the religion combined with language
combined with an alien culture that has been
causing the discomfort. If there are millions
for
all of Assam's ills.
I assume when Ulfa was formed in '79, you were
not around but were gone long before that.
Rgds,
Sandip
- Original Message
From: Krishnendu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ram Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: assam
Last night, around 2 AM, our close friend , Krishna Das, wife of Dr.
Pradip Das, mother of Joy and Jit , daughter of Aparajita mahideu
and brother and sister-in-law Drs. Chandan and Kavita Saharia of
Guwahati, passed away.
She lost a 3 year old battle to Leukemia that she fought valiantly,
The pleasure is all mine , Thakuria :-).
I hoped to hear a few more words, but I understand .
Best.
At 1:29 AM -0700 8/16/07, Nava Thakuria wrote:
Thank you sir. I am inspired by your words.
Nava Thakuria
Ready for the edge of your seat?
Hi A:
Did you send your above-average deliberative abilities on vacation ?
Why don't you read the words of Jairam Ramesh
again, and see if you can understand what he was
saying, and why I said it was like throwing in
the towel.
And if you still can't , let me know. I know from
a long
:
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ram,
Your response here , unfortunately, smacks of the
immensely
uncreative and unimaginative but argumentative one.
It fits right in
the mold of the Indian govt. policies spanning
decades, uncreative,
unproductive, stuck in the muck of their own
Nagaland Produces around 13% of India's
Petroleum . Does anyone know what is the correct
figure?
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am perfectly willing to hear about Indian reforms
that are real,
achievable , sustainable and addresses the issues
involving Assam ,
its
Sorry it took so long to get back to you Chitta.
The flag-waving fire-works kept me at bay, as you
must have noticed. Hope it was an enjoyable
display :-).
It is the religion combined with language
combined with an alien culture that has been
causing the discomfort. If there are millions
not in any way help
Assam in its woes.
True, but who has been doing this? I can guess, but then, I would
have to come up with proof - which I can't pin down at the moment:)
--Ram
__
On 8/14/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just so this discussion
Thank you Thakuria for the news report and the heartwarming pictures.
I must acknowledge that I was impressed by the
bravery displayed by Guahati journalists in
hoisting the Indian flag and parading on the
streets --- holding the banners reading
'Uphold the dignity of the National flag.'
Hi A:
I am not sure I get the question, but are you
meaning that if those who chant Joi Ai Oxom
and want Assam to be the master of its own
destiny, would be hypocritical because they ought
to know that by gaining control over its destiny,
Assam will also have to forego prosperity ?
If
Alpana:
Oh! C'da. Your effort to spin everything that you do not support, is
just so transparent! With all due respect, don't you preach
something like - you can fool ev
*** I understand :-).
I am not sure if Mr. Ramesh is looking down upon the state as a
whole or is he talking about the
Is it that he is acting like giving his own money?
*** Yeah Alpana. He is hurting 'cos his poitrik
xompotty is going to waste :-). It is MY paranoid
misinterpretation.
At 9:48 PM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
dysfunction-- of mai-baap's doles, however well
Greetings Thakuria.
I hope you are carrying the torch of Oxomiya
journalism high and bright in the international
field as Assam's representative.
Thanks for sharing the appeal. Even though I
don't, as a rule, indulge in 'flag-waving' of
any kind and think of the pursuit in the same
vein
discontent brewing over decades in Assam
Why? Is there a sudden dearth of supporters, that you would urge
Thakuria Co. to carry water for such causes? And who decides what
activities are useful and which ones are not?
--Ram
I
On 8/14/07, Chan Mahanta
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:48:54 -0500
To:
From: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Flagwaving Blues
I have little use for those who wear their patriotism on their buttonholes,
or their piety on their necks or their foreheads. But I won't get in the
way of those who wish to do just
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Krishnendu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Assam] AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ASSAM
To: Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Read your post as well as your earlier post
(Flagwaving Blues) .
I do agree with your post
, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not say anything is WRONG with flag waving, did I Ram? However
most intellectually able people do not hold it in high esteem.
Anyone can do it. Just like wearing ones patriotism on one's
shirtsleeves. That is why thoughtful
yourselves, although not always
successfully . In this context, the 'nwdhown gaa dhouaali, nakhawn
bhaat khuali, nigilw ki koro kor' factor plays out quite often :-).
At 10:50 AM -0700 8/14/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nava Thakuria and others
. not a single case of success not
much of accomplishment :)
In this context, the 'nwdhown gaa
dhouaali, nakhawn
bhaat khuali, nigilw ki koro kor' factor plays out
quite often :-).
Same on the other side is true ... particulrly when
you try avoiding difficult questions.
--- Chan Mahanta
acknowledge it as a problem,
much less do anything about it. And when you do, enlighten us about
it.
At 1:04 PM -0700 8/14/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand. However it looks more like ULFA
is in
armed conflict against people
is that Assam is under siege, and a not so silent invasion
from Bangladesh.
--Assam
On 8/12/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Chitta:
Why do you always want to equate the BDeshi issue with the Muslim one?
*** I did not even touch the M word. Give
Superman Never Returns
India can go ape-or it can learn to talk to itself and the world
PANKAJ MISHRA
For some years now, the English press has treated us to such
headlines as 'India, the Next Superpower', 'India's Global Takeover',
or 'Bollywood Fever Sweeps the West'. This enthusiasm has
- there, I have tried my best.
--Ram
On 8/13/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ram:
At 6:26 AM -0600 8/13/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
C'da
Couldn't resist...
*** I am not surprised Ram. But welcome to the fray .
*** Let us start
Ram:
Had it not been for your drawing attention to it, I never would have read it.
BTW, you missed highlighting the main idea :
These retarding syndromes of unpunctuality, absenteeism and a
general tendency of
lethargy are solely responsible for the backwardness of our State.
on account of the fact that how a tripe as
JB's piece was allowed for publication by the Editorial Board of The
Sentinel !!!
KJD
On 8/12/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ram:
Had it not been for your drawing attention to it, I never would have read
Ram:
But really, there wasn't anything subtle or implied if you will.
*** Just so we are clear here, you mean there was nothing subtle or
implied in Rajen's comments
which could be interpreted as a demonstration of willingness -- to
cast away anything Indian, because its from India.,
Hi Chitta:
Why do you always want to equate the BDeshi issue with the Muslim one?
*** I did not even touch the M word. Give me a break, will ya :-) ?
I wonder whether you have a hidden agenda here in trying to make
all Assamese Hindus suffer from collective guilt complex by dubbing
-
the big gloom doom.
Yes, it does make us all upset that something like this can and is
published in the papers. But, that is fine, she is expressing her
views, and if we feel different, we should write too.
--Ram
On 8/12/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hi Chitta:
Why do you always want to equate the BDeshi issue with the Muslim one?
*** I did not even touch the M word. Give me a break, will ya :-) ?
I wonder whether you have a hidden agenda here in trying to make
all Assamese Hindus suffer from collective guilt complex by dubbing
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I think the historically appropriate and authentically Assamese dress
code for MLAs , MPs from Assam , and for govt. officials during
business hours ought to be:
** Gamosaar lengti ( A gamosa loincloth, worn above the knees)
** Peasant shirt ( collarless shirt, without
I think the historically appropriate and authentically Assamese dress
code MLAs , MPs from Assam , and for govt. officials during business
hours ought to be:
** Gamosaar lengti ( A gamosa loincloth, worn above the knees)
** Peasant shirt ( collarless shirt, without buttons)
I think the historically appropriate and authentically Assamese dress
code MLAs , MPs from Assam , and for govt. officials during business
hours ought to be:
** Gamosaar lengti ( A gamosa loincloth, worn above the knees)
** Peasant shirt ( collarless shirt, without buttons)
I am NOT surprised a bit. I have been there and
have heard some of the horror stories from people
who actually live there. I also learned of the
infrastructure/architectural vulnerability of
Gurgaon, when I was a part of a team of
engineers and architects responding to an RFP
from one of
I recommend it strongly. Just finished reading
Baruah's Post Frontier Blues. His analysis is
thoughtful, cognizant of realities both historic
and present and his recommendations make
eminent sense.
For all those who are agonizing over the issue of
B'deshis in Assam and the contiguous
Wow--what is this?
Assam's legitimate owners can't do anything about it.
Assam's true representatives won't say anything.
What is going on?
No wonder then Assam's intellectuals are turning
the heat up on them 'self-appointed' lot. Urohor
khong boga dharit xorar procesta ?
:-).
that a person who will
travel to the other end of World (or World Wide Web)
to find a fault in Indian System (or Indians) failed
to notice this :)
Once again you abstained from answering many of the
questions from my posting ... but again , this is not
the first time !
K
--- Chan Mahanta
on Big Dig human error
or corruption
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
since it was YOU who made the comment the burden
is on
you to proved the point. We have shown numerous
examples of how Indian Engineers who studied in
India
are shining in India and abroad
idiot) and
second, the chacks and balances seems to have
failed and third because it is your field of
expertise.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O' Ram:
Hope your weekend is going well. We had a nice
kharkhowa gathering,
along with some kolgutikhowas and even a couple
because it is your field of
expertise.
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O' Ram:
Hope your weekend is going well. We had a nice
kharkhowa gathering,
along with some kolgutikhowas and even a couple of
desuali folks
last evening. This has been the most pleasant of
July
Is there a direct flight between Mumbai and Guahati yet?
At 10:07 AM -0500 8/2/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
People of Assam will be a happier lot now on, as the first ever
Mumbai-Newyork non-stop daily flight introduced by Air India today
was named after the State of Assam. -AT
Would
.
On 8/2/07, Chan Mahanta
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a direct flight between Mumbai and Guahati yet?
At 10:07 AM -0500 8/2/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
People of Assam will be a happier lot now on, as the first ever
Mumbai-Newyork non-stop daily
should make
sure names like Brahamaputra, Dhonsiri, Dikhow, Dihing, Disang a etc
are included.
Barua
- Original Message -
From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Chan Mahanta
To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Ram Sarangapani ;
mailto:assam@assamnet.orgASSAMNET
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:37
January I
took this flight.
WS
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Namens Ram Sarangapani
Verzonden: donderdag 2 augustus 2007 18:56
Aan: Chan Mahanta
CC: ASSAMNET
Onderwerp: Re: [Assam] India-New York flight named after Assam -AT
Not yet - but I hear that there will be one
knows if that flight is operational or not. If I am correct
it runs on wednesdays now a days. If you go to www.asia.com and
search for it, I am sure you will get more info. Be sure to put a
wednesday as the journey date.
best
Priyankoo
Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RE: [Assam] India
likes of Hiteswar Saikia, Prafulla Mahanta and now Tarun Gogoi.
*** That has covered the gamut of the choices made available by
desi-democrasy. What is left to be tried? Don't tell me --- Togadia,
Narendar Modi, right?
Awright , so WHAT would their plan be? How would they go about doing
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