Re: [Assam] The Assamese Diaspora's support. - sponsoring Assamese for US/UK study etc

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:42:30 -0700

KJD-da,
 
I agree that NRAs have a work profile rather different from most Assam based "natives" but there is an increasing number of globally oriented guys and gals - who have the guts but lack the dough to come to US or UK or even study in big Indian cities in professional colleges.
 
For one , NRAs can start visiting Assam Inst of Management and give guest lectures to students. I would not be at Harvard unless I had a teacher at Hindu Inst. of Management who made it seem so easy - his going for study at Stanford Bus, School. Your encouragement can work wonders. Nothing works like an encouragement.
 
If a student or a job seeker going out knows  - that there is someone whom he or she can turn to - if things go tough - mostly related to health or police issues or racial or sexual harrassment -- it itself is a major factor in improving a global movement of Assam youth.
 
ULFA is international in a negative sense (holed up outside Indian borders) but there are vast positive incentives of going global. The Islamic radicals are also said to be any West becos they have not been able to exploit the current free-market globalization approach.
 
Saudis never did any business outside their land except of dates and oil - despite such an opportunity. On the other hand, MArwaris from Thar Desert left their drought ridden land to take risks and control Indian economy for over a century. 
 
Remaining holed up in Assam alone will not help Assam's economy.
 
Umesh 
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

One of the recurrent grouses of the native Assamese is--" NRAs are a bunch of arm-chair critics,doing nothing for the State of Assam".

The above really deserves a sharp retort.Firstly,it is ridiculous to think that a few hundred Assamese or a few thousand of them,working abroad,can change the face of Assam.The fact remains that Assam has to be built by the native Assamese themselves.The " rich cousins" of their's,living thousands of miles away, cannot do it for them.Second,the occupation profile of NRAs is very different from NRIs--most of them being in the service sector.Therefore,NRIs have the entrepreneurial ability to invest in a new business back home.The NRA,by and large,is a different person.Third,the investment in business cannot afford to be a matter of sentiment, because of old ties,when things are out of joint.When other things are more or less equal,it may be possible to persuade an entrepreneur to invest in Assam.But when there are too many things wrong with the region to ensure reasonable prospects of success,no one can be expected to make disastrous investments purely for reasons of sentim! ent.For b

Anyway,the hurricane Rita is approaching fast towards Texas coast lines.As the evacuation continues,the freeways are gridlocked.For Houstonians,the situation is--out of the frying pan into fire.We are in a cleft stick.

KJD

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