----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:32
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam
-Centre for Policy Alternatives--Addedum
Rajen:
Important things first:
>Let us not proceed any further. I
donot have time to indulge in these endless and meaningless >dabates. Let
us agree that I donot trust you, I donot understand and and I dnot
believe you. >Your words sounds too strange to me specially when you
try to speak for the ULFA or the PCG.
*** You are taking things personally. It is NOT about YOU. Nor is it
about me. I thought you understood the difference long ago. And if I remember
correctly, you also affirmed that you do not take these things
personally.
But on a lighter note:
*** About your NOT trusting me: That is YOUR prerogative. It has always
been so. You don't need my permission for that. Why do I need to agree to
that? And do you really think I will sign on the dotted line giving you the
freedom not to trust me, so that you can go about telling people that you
don't trust Chandan, because look, right here, he has signed this release
giving me all the rights not to ? I maybe a fool Rajen, but not stupid. I
don't know!
*** Don't feel bad that you don't understand me. I am sure you are not
alone on that. But on the good side, it is really a self-created problem. An
attitudinal one. If you want to understand it, you will get it
instantly.
>Looks like we will have use plain
English:
Are you implying that my English is too hard to comprehend? If so, why
don't you just say so? I can write in Oxomiya too you know? Just takes it
longer. And my command of the language has become somewhat rusty.
But it does hurt to hear that you don't believe me. Only mitigating
factor here is that I am not sure I said anything that requires BELIEVING or
even TRUSTing. Nobody has to take my word for anything. I have explained it so
many times, I am getting to be like a broken record. So I am hoping that
you said that out of frustration, out of exasperation. It is like telling
someone you love ( no, no, I am not suggesting you have to LOVE me) that you
don't in the heat of an argument or a fight. Anyway, if that is your final
decision, I will have to remain condemned to endure it. My loss. What else can
I say?
>You also may sim,ilar feelings
towards me, I don't know.
*** Perish the thought. I have no such need or intent. I trust you. I
believe you. I even understand you. Only problem is that some of your
arguments are, shall we say, untenable? And many of your opinions and verdicts
are kind of poorly deliberated--particularly re: Assam, ULFA, Indian
governance etc. The uncharitable might actually characterize some of them with
the k-j phrase, if you know what I mean.
>Let us not proceed any
further.
*** Come now Rajen. Again you are dumping on me by insinuating that it is
my fault, that I am dragging you into saying and proposing things that you are
having trouble defending. Isn't that the real problem here?
I do try to share my fellow men's burdens, when I can. But I can
bear only so much Rajen. You know I am a little fella, my back is not all that
strong. And if that is not bad enough, I am old and bald too. Kiman aaru
aanor bwza korhiam he', tumiei kwaswn?
>I think it is better we simply
agree that we donot and never will agree. Let us live and let
live.
*** I can read your exasperation again Rajen. But I never promised you (
or anyone else) that 'rose garden, along with the sunshine', remember? And as
much as I feel flattered for seeking it, you really don't need my permission
to disagree. Seriously!Trust me ( oops--bad choice of words here perhaps?), I
won't write a cement shoes or knee-cap removal contract on you with ULFA
hit-squads. I know I am baaad, but not that bad!
Finally, WHY do you give me these opportunities to lead into your
commentaries like this Rajen? You know I am a 'bih-guti'( literally
'poison-seed'), and cannot resist pulling the chimes of those with extra-short
fuses. But you HAVE to keep doing that, don't you? You need to check that urge
for getting frustrated so easily. There is more to life than Assam Net
debates.
You take care now. And don't make me send Tilok Daktor after you.
That is a definite threat! If you don't believe me, just ask our lovable
'seraa-ppagol' Dr. Brain Deka. See what Tilok Daktor has done to him?
That will be REALLY bad!
c :-)
At 11:27 PM -0600 11/2/05, Barua25 wrote:
Looks like
we will have use plain English:
(1) I said
that people of Assam must be worse than the rest of the states in NE
because they are getting more from GOI and are progressing more in all
aspects of the report: Health, Income, reducing infact morality, and
all.
(2) You
basically replied that I was not trying to analyse the report and understand
the issue why the rests of the NE states seems to be advancing
compared to Assam (this also implies that you actually donot believe the
report). You explained that said it was because it was an integral part of
the grand Indian scheme to keep the NE discombobulated and fractured. by
bribing, the quintessentially Indian virtue.
(3) Then I
asked you, if that was so, what was wrong with Assam? Why Assam has been
left out by GOI from receiving some bribe? Why the GOI does not want to
bribe Assam which is also a state in the NE? Because if Assam is left out,
you theory "the GOI is it was an integral part of the grand Indian
scheme to keep the NE discombobulated and fractured. by bribing
the quintessentially Indian virtue." must be wrong.
And you did
not answer and was trying to slip.
Whatever it
was, you failed to explain why GOI is not bribing Assam so that Assam can
also have a false increase of per capita income?
Chandan:
Let us not
proceed any further. I donot have time to indulge in these endless and
meaningless dabates. Let us agree that I donot trust you, I donot
understand and and I dnot believe you. Your words sounds too strange
to me specially when you try to speak for the ULFA or the
PCG.
You also
may sim,ilar feelings towards me, I don't know.
I think
it is better we simply agree that we donot and never will agree. Let
us live and let live.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen
Barua ; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fwd: Study on Assam -Centre for
Policy Alternatives--Addedum
At 5:44 PM -0600 11/2/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
>It is an integral part of the grand
Indian scheme to keep the NE discombobulated and fractured. By bribing,
the quintessentially Indian virtue
The million dollar question
is, why the GOI decided to bribe everbody else in the NE and not
Assam.
**** That does not answer the question I raised. HOW exactly
do you see Nagaland or Arunachal or Meghalaya or Mizoram generating what
raises their per capita productivity? It is a pretty simple thing to
analyze you know?
Also there is a pretty darn simple way to understand why
Assam's per capita number is low compared to the rest of the NE states.
But I won't give you the answer. Let us see if you are able to put your
thinking cap on and figure that out all by yourself.
You live with your theory
(whatever that is) and we live with ours.
*** That is your choice. I don't live with theories. I try to
understand what these stats. mean. I don't take them at face value. I have
an ability to reason and I use it.
I am not endowed with any more ability or intellect than Rajen
Barua is. But the difference lies in one's willingness to USE what we are
endowed with.
>How
about that live and let live policy?
