Umesh's question belies an unexpressed faith on tokenism as a substitute for substance.
At 10:04 PM -0600 11/10/05, Roy, Santanu wrote: >Not that it made much of a positive difference to Assam, but just to >state a fact, a former President of India (F.A. Ahmed) was indeed an >MP from Assam & played a much greater (and longer) role in the >politics of the state than one of its later MPs - the current Prime >Minister of India. In fact, Ahmed was a minister in the first >Bordoloi ministry in Assam in 1938. As to whether F. A. Ahmed could >be called Assamese remains an open question... >Santanu. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of umesh sharma >Sent: Fri 11/11/2005 11:06 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India > >http://specials.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/09sld01.htm >The first Dalit President of India - memorium photo-article > > > >--------------------------------- >How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for >FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos > > >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
