[Assam] Taslima her Brhmaputra roots : Tussle between TWO Assamese translations.

2006-01-22 Thread Bartta Bistar
News from Assamiya Khabor dated 22 January 2006 http://www.assamiyakhabor.com/news3.htm Controversy on translations of two books : Is Taslima aware of it? The above news piece in Assamese is mainly about Taslima Nasrin’s book on the internet ‘Amar Meye Bela’ ( My girlhood) and two Assamese

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Santanoo Medhi
Rajib is right on lune when he mentioned that Bengalis git babudom and nothing else from Brits. Also, they became complacent assuming that once leading in industrialization, they will remain so. Perhaps Brits foresaw that this is what will become of Bongs and hence decided to move capital to

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
Are they representatives or number counts? Again how many each of how many manipulated parties? We know your simplistic logic. Thanks anyway! mm From:Ram Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED]CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], assam@assamnet.orgSubject:Re: [Assam]

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: RE: Dainik Agradoot Hi Mayur: There used to be a web-site, in which one could create/generate high-sounding gobledy-gook about any subject or person, replete with obscure words and phrases, peppered with French and Latin phrases and quotes of luminaries, real or made up, on the spot,

[Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
X-Originating-IP: [38.10.4.227] From: Tilok Hatimuria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:34 PDT Dear Raiz: This oomplaining bidness seems to have found a life of its own under the

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, At least you would agree that the author (this Barua) seems to have a pretty good command over the language and a good vocabulary (I had the dictionary open). From my experience (and thats not much) there are only a handful of NRAs with those talents (if the author is a NRA). Other than

[Assam] On Boycotting E-Mail

2006-01-22 Thread bg
Communicating Alan Lightman On Boycotting E-Mail 10.24.05, 9:00 AM ET Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist and educator. He is adjunct professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of books including Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis. I've

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan At 10:40 AM -0600 1/22/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote: C'da, At least you would agree that the author (this Barua) seems to have a pretty good command over the language and a good vocabulary (I had the dictionary open). *** You

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, Me too. Even gibberish could end up looking like high-falutin' stuff. It sure does. Its that 'damn language thang' acting up again. But this is more benign than the other stuff you get from time to time. --Ram On 1/22/06, Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:40 AM -0600 1/22/06,

[Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
The two students who are defenders for the school football team, took the lead on the fateful day on May 10, 2004 in giving a hot chase to the two militants who had shot dead an assistant teacher Jiten Das (37) in front of the school. One needs to read deep into their spontaneous act of heroics

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial Same old, same old! WHY did the supposed ULFA cadres shoot Jiten Das? What was the motive, as verified or even speculated? WHO (and HOW ) determined that the two perpetrators are indeed ULFA? Is it a guess, a mere accusation, a confession

[Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Serial blasts rattle State ULFA punches holes in Assam security shield Our Bureau With inputs from Guwahati, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Tingkhong Jan 22: Barely ten minutes after IGP (SB) Khagen Sarma claimed that the situation in the State was normal, the

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,You can go ahead and also prove that ULFA is a figment of imagination. A work of some mischief makers who release leaflets and press releases from time to time whereas all these killings are merely the work of common criminal elements in Assam -such as smugglers etc.Iran's President

Re: [Assam] [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: The tiger (and rhino??) re-appears - CSE news bulletin [Jan.10, 2006]

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
Mayur-da,You miss the woods for the trees . I did make a mistake in writing Parag Das instead of Prahlad Goala but you made another by ridiculing the issue of rhino hunting and tmber smuggling. What are your views on environmental protection in Assam?Umeshmayur bora [EMAIL

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
C'da, I also have similar doubts about the Sentinel/AT and the rest. But look at this case. Two teens, barely famous, on dead teacher shot by miscreants, and a chase ensues. We can surmise/speculate the following: The assilants were GOI agents or sulfa or just plain homegrown murderers

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial -- all is Maya You can go ahead and also prove that ULFA is a figment of imagination. A work of some mischief makers who release leaflets and press releases from time to time whereas all these killings are merely the work of common criminal

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel Your deliberative process is a real piece of work Umesh! Did I ask you to believe it was ULFA's doing? I merely forwarded the news without ANY commentary. You are free to believe anything you wish to. One would expect you to read and comprehend at a

Re: [Assam] News from The Sentinel

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
C-da,I wonder why use chose to comment about the authenticity of one news-article and not question the same for this one. Do you wish to believe that ULFA is brave enough to kill defense personnel but not coward enough to kill school teachers (as in the other article)?UmeshChan Mahanta

Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Brave teens 2 - AT Editorial At 1:25 PM -0600 1/22/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote: C'da, I also have similar doubts about the Sentinel/AT and the rest. But look at this case. Two teens, barely famous, on dead teacher shot by miscreants, and a chase ensues. We can

[Assam] Rediff: Tips to be a champion at marketing - Culture Gap warfare

2006-01-22 Thread umesh sharma
http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/20bspec.htm?q=bpfile=.htmThis article gives us info about the tradtional concept of marketing for markets about whose socio-cultural mores you are well aware of. If you want to your products to be in demand in new markets -- such as Assamese products

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Roy, Santanu
With such high standards of literary expression as in the forwarded mail - the assmnet may well consider going for a print edition. The author even uses the term analytic/synthetic dichotomy - wow - good schooling in philosphy, perhaps freshly, and in classical writing. I hope the author Barua

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
I think Barua's letter is computer generated gibberish. RB - Original Message - From: Ram Sarangapani To: Chan Mahanta Cc: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

[Assam] A Complaint Against AssamNet from June 2000

2006-01-22 Thread Chan Mahanta
From: Saurav Pathak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Saurav Pathak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: AssamNet assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu Subject: My complaint about AssamNet Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:10:25 -0400 (EDT) My complaint about AssamNet I realize that everyone is entitled to his

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread BBaruah
Barua Saheb Other participants The problem of West Bengal’s slow pace of industrial development in comparison with states like Kerala, Gujarat, Punjab etc requires careful study inside a well-stocked library. I do not have either the time or facilities for such a serious pursuit but I

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
I think Barua's letter is computer generated gibberish. RB Yes, and I can VOUCH for that. Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who generated it at the then working web-site called Scott Pakin's Automatic Complain Generator. I withheld his name purposely :-). What? I

Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahanta

2006-01-22 Thread Barua25
Title: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Complaint Against Honorable Chandan Mahan Yes, and I can VOUCH for that. Rajen DOES KNOW what he is talking about, because it was he who generated it at the then working web-site called Scott Pakin's Automatic Complain Generator. I withheld his name purposely

Re: [Assam] The all powerful 'oil weapon' is the talk of the town!

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
Bartta Bistar's piece shouts about "50 Billion Rupees". Somebody moaned 5Bn $! My, My!mm From: "Bartta Bistar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] The all powerful 'oil weapon' is the talk of the town!Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:41:59 + Meanwhile in India...

[Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Assam gets Rs. 894 crs compared to Gujarat Rs. 1,131 crs. Output Assam 4.5 mill.tons/year, Gujarat 6.1 mill. tons/yr. ONGC is producing about 6.1 million tonnes of crude a year from its fields in Gujarat. There is not too much of a difference between the recoverable crude reserves in Assam, which

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
Bengalis did not have a tradition of becoming Exept the Bangla Banias, the Saha,Raha,Naha. Gujus,Mero's built for themselves -as always. Trickle down effect was the small gain. Brit. merchant houses did their major work . Tea HQ's,Tea Auction Centre, now-defunct port,Rail Start Centre, all help

Re: [Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - Telegraph

2006-01-22 Thread mc mahant
So produce all their need in Gujarat and in the Bay of Bengal and leave Assam sitting pretty!mm From:Ram Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:Assam Organisation assam@assamnet.orgSubject:[Assam] Well-oiled Assam sits pretty - TelegraphDate:Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:26:58 -0600 Assam gets Rs. 894 crs

Re: [Assam] Why Bengal is Underdeveloped

2006-01-22 Thread Ram Sarangapani
Someone mentioned Parsees under this header. The Parsees it seemsfled fromIran (due to persecution there), some went to Europe while a small group came to India. The British were very much at ease with them, and when they left offered them British Passports. But they did not want them, so instead

[Assam] 18,203 criminals in Assam politics

2006-01-22 Thread bg
There are 18,203 criminals in Assam politics. - B B Tandon, Chief Election Commissioner Can we file for the list of these great people thru RTI? Some interesting links: http://rti.gov.in/Members/assam 18203.doc Description: MS-Word document ___

Re: [Assam] Dainik Agradoot

2006-01-22 Thread mayur bora
Dear C da I have high regards for you notwithstanding our differences on many issues pertaining to Assam. What can be a better way of showing my respect to you than by quoting you from your earlier mail. This will incidentally act as my response to your latest post. You remain mired in your own