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it looks like you really
believe:
> Dead is dead. Why we cannot pass that and proceed with our
lives dreaming for a future Independent Assam?
But we do need to analyse all
deaths whether it is of Sanjoy Ghosh or Parag Das.
Unless we discuss and analyse how
we will prevent such deaths?
Who killed Sanjoy
Ghosh?
Who killed Parag Das?
Those questions should be always
alive with us.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:59
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam Trip-2
Addendum
>Why we had to drag the
dead guy Sanjoy Ghosh into the picture?
*** WHO did that? Was it me?
At 10:29 AM -0600 1/4/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
*** I do too. But
it was Rajen Barua who found it necessary to use RVC and
Ravi's state / national origins and/or antecedents to make slimy
political points on Indian Nationalism.
I think there should
be a limit even on 'Joto Dws Nondo Ghws' blame
syndrom.
Rajen Barua is
notorious in the community for that blame.
However, to set the
record right, in this case, all Rajen Barua did was to state the
following:
>Great to know
such good Indians working selflessly in NE. It looks like he was
also like Sanjay Ghosh doing NGO work in Majuli who was reportedly been
killed by ULFA.
Where did you see the
slimy political points on Indian Nationalism in my above
statement?
I think you did not
like it anyway. May be it spolied your mood.
Why we had to
drag the dead guy Sanjoy Ghosh into the picture? Dead is
dead.
Why we cannot pass
that and proceed with our lives dreaming for a future Independent
Assam?
I think the report is
correct.
Assam
has entered the stage of Upai Nai.
I still say Hobo
Diok.
RB.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Ram
Sarangapani
Cc: Rajen
Barua ; [email protected] ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam Trip-2 Addendum
Ram:
At 10:55 PM -0600 1/3/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
I sincerely hope we can all get past
this.
*** I do too. But it was Rajen Barua who found it necessary to
use RVC and Ravi's state / national origins and/or antecedents to
make slimy political points on Indian Nationalism.
Looks like the Foot-in-the-Mouth disease is reappearing in
Assam net with a vengeance.
>To me it really matter little if they are doing it for
India, an independent >Assam or China for that matter. The fact that
they are making a big difference >in the lives of so many poor
people - that itself is important to me.
*** If all of us were that sophisticated, we will have
something going, wouldn't we?
c-da
IMHO, it is imperative that we all
understand that small groups like RVC & Ashadeep are doing
something that most of us can only hope of doing
someday.
These are the people who are actually serving the needs of
the needy, and the least we can do is to help their cause. Because
their cause is our cause, ultimately. They are the people at the
grassroots and that itself is important.
To me it really matter little if they are doing it for
India, an independent Assam or China for that matter. The fact that they
are making a big difference in the lives of so many poor people -
that itself is important to me.
--Ram
On 1/3/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Oh, another thing. While you are at it, on the subject of
asking him what his motives are, also ask him about your HEROES like
Sanjoy Hazarika and Jayanta Madhav who gave you interviews like
visiting royalty and what he thinks about what they are promoting for
Assam.
That would be fun to watch.
At 9:17 PM -0600 1/3/06, Chan Mahanta wrote:
>I can see the connection you are trying to
make.
*** *I* am attempting to make a connection
?
Either there is a serious ongoing reading comprehension
problem, or an eruption of unmitigated schutzpah.
>But I donot
think these good Indians are treating Assam as their
colony.
*** Good Britishers did not treat the Indians as
colonial vassals either - they treated them like
humans.
>They are
doing the selfless work thinking they are doing it for their own
country, their Mother India.
*** That is What RAJEN Barua would like to connect to.
More than likely it is the HUMAN one, not the INDIAN NATIONALISTIC
one. Perhaps Rajen Barua would like to ask Ravindranath, instead of
speculating and ASSIGNING motives to him.
>Even for a
moment they donot think that Assam and the North East is not
India.
*** Go ahead and ASK Ravindranath, if you have the
intestinal fortitude to do so, WHY he does what he does. And I am
certain he would TELL you,and your kind, because I can tell he
has what it takes.
cm
At 6:11 PM -0600 1/3/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
>*** There were a lot of very
fine Britishers also use to do social work in India while it was a
colony.
> And a number of them were killed by
Indians.
> Any connection here?
I can see the
connection you are trying to make.
But I donot
think these good Indians are treating Assam as their
colony.
They are
doing the selfless work thinking they are doing it for their own
country, their Mother India.
Even for a
moment they donot think that Assam and the North East is not
India.
Do
you?
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan Mahanta
To: Rajen
Barua
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:32
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam
Trip-2
*** There were a lot of very fine Britishers also use
to do social work in India while it was a colony.
And a number of them were killed by
Indians.
Any connection here?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rajen Barua
To: [email protected] ; Chan
Mahanta
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:19
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam
Trip-2
>Ravindra Nath , son of UP and Bengali parents,
studied Appropriate Technology
>( and something else) at IIT-Delhi. He got
involved with NGO work under the noted social worker (?)
Bunker Roy. He started at the NE at Arunachal and later
>moved down to Akajan/Silapthar. That is all I know of Ravi.
Ravi's wife, Sathyasree is from Guwahati.
Great to
know such good Indians working selflessly working in NE. It
looks like he was also like Sanjay Ghosh doing NGO work in
Majuli who was reportedly been killed by
ULFA.
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:52
AM
Subject: [Assam] Assam
Trip-2
Dear Netters,
I spoke about the very fine things that the Rural
Volunteer Center ( RVC) is doing at Akajan. Ravindranath
and his wife Sathyasree Goswami, who live at Silapathar and
lead their many efforts are making a measurable difference for
the many people whose lives have been ravaged by repeated
floods. Today I hope to tell you a little more about them and
RVC.
Ravindra Nath , son of UP and Bengali parents,
studied Appropriate Technology
( and something else) at IIT-Delhi. He got
involved with NGO work under the noted social worker (?)
Bunker Roy. He started at the NE at Arunachal and later moved
down to Akajan/Silapthar. That is all I know of Ravi. Ravi's
wife, Sathyasree is from Guwahati. The following about
herself,is in her own words:
"I am an Assamese born as the 6th daughter to Mr.
P.N. Goswami and Ms. Biva Goswami of Chenikuthi. educated
partly in Cotton College i have been working in Akajan from
1995 and took a break for two years to work with drought
affected people of Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Now I
volunteer for RVC and I have started a collective
called shakti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
to work on holistic community health and right to health and
health care, where I work full time based in Akajan
village."
I did not get to meet Sathyasree as she was with
her ailing mother at Guahati. But I had the privilege of
staying overnight at RVC's guest-house. Ravi and the other
volunteers live there as well. Their little campus was like an
'ashram', with all kinds of undertakings going on. They even
have a satellite dish
with a high-speed internet network, which they
acquired with some wiles, a necessity in today's world but a
luxury beyond imagination in Assam and particularly at a place
like Akajan.
Guile and wiles in addition to a dedicated sense
of service have been essential for RVC's continued existence
and success. What they face everyday is not something for the
faint of heart or for the occasional do-gooder like
ourselves.
Ravi recounted a number of anecdotes while he and
a couple of his associates took me around to show some of the
many wonderful things they are doing all over. I was awed by
the obstacles they face and how they make little dents, one at
a time, to make a difference. They have spawned other
volunteers like themselves or have joined hands with others in
different ways by sharing their resources and
experiences.
One such effort that I was highly impressed by was
a road building project organized by the Mising students'
association--the name of which eludes me --led by a young
Mising, Pegu, whose first name I forget, who also was a Cotton
College Union Secy.--a powerful position as we well know. He
and John - another Mising, trained at B'lore as an MBA I
think, were leading over a thousand young volunteers who were
building a road -- a lifeline for a series of villages which
was washed away, but did not get repaired/replaced by the Govt
or the GOs entrusted with the responsibility, with sheer hand
power-with nothing but hoes. They come from miles around and
are required to sleep over at poly-tents . They are fed by
volunteers who prepare meals in the harvested rice paddies,
like the 'bhoj' prior to the 'meji' at Magh Bihu, except it is
not much of a feast. The logistics of feeding so many was
amazing. It was partially funded by a program called "Food for
Work" I believe. Ravi explained that the govt. did nothing for
years. Ultimately the people had to gear into
action.
Attached herewith is one document describing RVC
and its many programs. I will send two more under separate
mail.
I know I wrote a lot--and it always runs the risk
of NOT being read. But I hope some would take a little
interest, and spread the word, the good news. Because Assam
can use many more of such efforts as RVC's. And they are
gearing up to train those leaders for just that. Let us hope
we too can do a little to give them the support they so richly
deserve.
Best to all.
cm
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