Think again.
If Assam solves the crisis of K,P,N,Liquid Fuel and Energy-you have all the access into India and beyond asa mostn favoured Nation-a provider-a redeemer.
Trade will always be balanced--not like with Arabs. All Imports And Exports will be in Indian Rupees at world raes.
Win Win situation.
What else could anybody need.
Alternative will be a growing Cancer-which finally kills the host.
(Oracle) mm
From: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] Karbi Anglong
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
>Mikeda,
>
>I do not dispute your hypothesis that Assam could
>solve the problem of potassium, liquid energy and
>energy. I have not done enough analysis to comment
>either way.
>
>What I do dispute is that a sovereign Assam will not
>have access to Indian markets. That does not sound
>logical since a state seized from India will be felt
>inimical to it. Assam will never have any leverage
>over the directions India takes in building out these
>networks.
>
>In addition all those opportunities you talk about,
>there are others - big ideas all - that can impact
>both India overall and our region economically. Such
>opportunities did not make sense in an earlier
>generation of India where the leadership clearly
>lacked vision and the public did not demand it. The
>world in India today is different. People want
>prosperity and are pretty impatient about it. Many
>politicians have realized it and work towards getting
>some work done.
>
>It is that time in India where the watchword is hope
>and progress and by any account humongous economic
>progress. It is into that India that the opportunities
>of Assam will feed into. This requires an Assam that
>is indelibly linked to India - not de-linked.
>
>Actually the way I see it - India (and Bangladesh and
>Burma and USA and Thailand and USA and Europe and
>whatever else is there) will get peace in our region
>at any cost. If not for the love of Assam, this peace
>will come because there is way too much money to be
>made.
>
>For 40 years Assam was in the periphery - being a link
>between worlds would bring the North East to somewhat
>of an economic center. India will have an impetus to
>make the NE that economic center over let's say
>Bangladesh. Take a look at the map of the region. A
>sovereign Assam would be irrelevant - India can easily
>route the routes through Bangaldesh.
>
>The real question is:
>
>Should Assam rather be sovereign and not take
>advantage of the opportunities you and I are talking
>about? Or should we be a part of India and take
>advantage of those? Would we rather have the jungle
>reclaim us or move forward with a singular focus on
>the prosperity of the region.
>
>Economically speaking I haven't seen a business case
>built out for the former.
>
>It is in this context that we had a discussion some
>time back as to what the objective for discussions
>between ULFA and GOI should be - beyond the singular
>word of sovereignity.
>
>People of NE benefit from having gotten as an outcome
>of a negotiated settlement a humongous economic bonus
>that the neglect of GOI and the depradations of the
>militants have brought us. GOI will bite because
>however huge an economic bonus will be far smaller
>than the economic benefits that will accrue to both
>Assam and India.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--- mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>---------------------------------
>
>The Mother of Reasons of all human migration problems:
>Bihari-Adibasi(maybe Jharkhand
>origin),Karbi,Dimasa,Nagas(grabbing lower lands with
>Delhi/CRP looking the other way)--- depletion of
>Potassium from the soil.
>
>I wrote in the net that only Sovereign Assam can solve
>India's food /unrest problem by supplying Potassium,
>Phosphorus, PLUS half of India's liquid energy needs
>--plus about half Electric energy needs.
>
>{No Sovereignty for Assam-- no Hope of " Great India"
>EVER.}
>
>Promise I won't repeat this "Asinine" remark.
>
>mm
>
>mm
>
>
>
>
>
>---------------------------------
>
>From: SP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Assam] Karbi Anglong
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:55:33 -0400
> >
> >Rajib Das wrote on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:20:04 -0700
> >
> >+ I wonder what is the position of the Assam
>separatists
> >+ on this pernicious war between the two groups -
>Karbis
> >+ and Dimasas.
> >+
> >+ Going by the total silence on this - I assume
>either
> >+ the separatists are not interested in that
>conflict.
> >+
> >+ I am sure there would be some that would put the
>blame
> >+ on GOI - the Great Satan. But then it would be too
> >+ simplistic, wouldn't it?
> >
> >the issue is land.
> >
> >this is not the first time that there has been a
>killing.
> >some time ago upds killed some biharis.
> >
> >wait, wait---biharis in karbi anglong?!
> >
> >you would be surprised, but there are a lot of
>biharis
> >in karbi anglong. the biharis are those who have
>been
> >displaced from bihar due to---you guessed it---land
> >alienation. the land alienation in bihar gave rise
> >to and sustained the maoist communist center kinds
> >and the opposing ranbir sena kinds, leading to
> >occasional massacres there. the land alienation
>problem
> >in bihar has now been exported to the karbi hills.
> >
> >this problem now will touch all those in karbi and
>other
> >areas. it will pit one tribe against the other. it
>will
> >pit tribals against the illegal immigrants (as it did
>at nellie
> >some decades ago). and it will pit tribals against
>biharis,
> >bengalis and what have you. and the biharis and
>bengalis
> >will retaliate, as the biharis did following the upds
>attack.
> >
> >if you are trying to take a few cheap shots at
>militancy this
> >time, please don't. well, for one, we don't know who
>did this
> >particular massacre. (most probably we will never
>know---do
> >we know who did nellie, so many years ago, or dimapur
>railway
> >station last year?). they were in black fatigues it
>is said,
> >but surprisingly they did not use ak-47's. they used
>the village
> >dao. they hacked the passengers and threw them into
>the
> >fire. in a way those at nellie used daos, bows and
>arrows.
> >this was not an ordinary political killing by
>insurgent
> >groups. this was tribal warfare.
> >
> >
> >+ What is the solution to this and to a million
>other
> >+ mutinies that often are against each other and not
>a
> >+ part of the one great mutiny.
> >
> >the solution is land reforms, to begin with.
>followed
> >by other measures to protect and integrate the
>tribals.
> >this is the bare minimum.
> >
> >but this will never be done. was it done in bihar?
> >(it was done in bengal, by the cpim. if they had't
> >done so, those killed by the upds would have been
> >bengalis, not biharis). most probably, the problem
> >will fester, as it has done for so many years in the
> >karbi hills, with an occasional massacre here and
>there.
> >
> >the problem of land is not just something which has
>been
> >imported from bihar and which will impact only the
>tribals.
> >you might have come across news of at least two huge
>rallies
> >in assam in the last few months by people
>(non-tribals
> >mostly) demanding government pattas for their lands
>and
> >which turned violent. this is another powder keg we
>are
> >sitting on.
> >
> >xourov
> >
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