My Dear Rajib,
I felt guilty after reading your poignant and delicate piece.I never liked to hurt anybody.
We will prepare the ground for you-wilcome back home any time.
We will make Assam an unforgettable experience .
With assured:
<<< one
could escape to Guwahati with one's potential to
assuage his / her greed intact :-)>>>
What I say is "forget Guahati" . Think of the length and breadth of Assam of 1826 or of 1947.
Back the CAUSE -Heart and soul!
mm
From: Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] To Be or not to Be
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:37:55 -0800 (PST)
>Mikeda,
>
>:-)
>
>Am I happy I moved forward in life? (I do realize
>however that I transferred my clerkship from India to
>US - so this move forward is nothing more than a small
>little step really). Absolutely.
>
>I wish there were more that escaped. Not just
>Chandanda. And I. And all others on Assamnet. I wish
>there were tens of thousands such escapees from our
>region.
>
>They don't need to be IIT / IIM guys - at the end of
>it most of us turn out to be clerks anyway. In as much
>as the penchant for ABCD kids to become doctors in the
>US is. Ordinary drop outs in the US have had a better
>success rate in my industry at least.
>
>But really, Mike da? Attempting to solving problems in
>the abstract without a self interest urging them on -
>the socialist approach to things - does not seem to
>have worked anywhere.
>
>It works best when personal desire - greed even -
>drives people to do big things. So all these IITs and
>IIMs and RECs and what have you - let them be there to
>give the push to AT LEAST a few poor and lower middle
>class men and women. Let them go out and be greedy and
>self serving. Let them figure out how to earn more
>money. Give them the environment and the level playing
>field to do so.
>
>You say the IITs and IIMs are for solving the crises
>in the lives of the multi-millions. I say wrong. It is
>and should continue to remain the passport for these
>individuals to go up in life that was never granted in
>many many generations of many of these families.
>
>And if you are in the government - give law and order
>and access to infrastructure and then leave these guys
>to their self serving ways. Experience around the
>world has shown that the problems of the multimillions
>have been solved that way better than packing off
>these guys into rural areas to ponder over problems or
>work in giant inefficient PSUs as clerks.
>
>Even if someone with an H1B can earn enough to invest
>in 10 little shops (in Guwahati or wherever) that can
>become 100 little shops in 10 years - that are giving
>jobs to 500 people - I think that is awesome.
>
>I guess there is an idealogical difference with you. I
>hold folks like you in high regard - those courageous
>folks that do indeed step away to solve the problems
>of the multimillions. Society needs your kind - at
>least a few of the truly real and honest ones. But
>society does need all other kinds too. Mostly those
>with the overwhelming desire - and the OPPORTUNITY -
>to make more money for themselves. In most societies
>the greedy ones are the overwhelming majority.
>
>Now this "escape with the H1B visa thing"! This escape
>is increasingly a false one. By the time we are old,
>America and IT will be like iron and steel. Or rather
>coal - an old sunset industry. It increasingly looks
>like the real escape at this point is back to India. I
>just wish instead of escaping to Pune or Bangalore one
>could escape to Guwahati with one's potential to
>assuage his / her greed intact :-)
>
>
>
>
>--- mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>---------------------------------
>Rajib Das wrote:
>
>
><<If the IITs were not to be there, I am sure many
>like
>C-Da and I and almost everyone else would not have
>escaped the clutches of our small town / lower middle
>class / rural surroundings.>>
>
>How about those high lifing today witout ever nearing
>IIT's,IIM's,?
>And those High lifers from B grade schools
>And those who couuld not cross Matric?
>And those multimillions who are written off?
>IIT's ,IIM's are all for solving the crises in the
>lives of those Multimillions
>
>And Rajib is happy that he escaped with his HIB visa
>
>Surely!
>
>
>
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